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CommentsHOUSTON–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Phoenix Suns Center Shaquille O’Neal is teaming with international hunger relief organization Feed The Children and Lakewood Church for the “PB & Shaq” event to be held Thursday, Mar. 5 starting at 6:30 p.m. at Lakewood Church (3700 Southwest Freeway). Each attendee must bring at least 10 jars of new peanut butter or a $20 donation to the event for admission.
“Shaq is a role model to many and what better way to set a great example by helping many families in need.”
Peanut butter is included in all Feed The Children food boxes, so there is always a need for the product. All items collected in Thursday’s event will be distributed by Feed The Children to families in need throughout the United States.
Feed The Children Founder and President Larry Jones will lead a special fellowship program at 7:30 p.m. O’Neal, whose team is in town to play the Houston Rockets on Friday night, will also be in attendance. Drawings for prizes will also be held.
“We are so happy to get the chance to work with Shaquille O’Neal and Lakewood Church,” said Larry Jones. “Shaq is a role model to many and what better way to set a great example by helping many families in need.”
About Feed The Children
Founded in 1979 by Larry and Frances Jones, Feed The Children is consistently ranked as one of the 10 largest international charities in the U.S., based on private, non-government support. Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disasters. In FY 2007, Feed The Children distributed more than 135 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing almost 800,000 meals each day. Since its founding, the organization has reached out to help those in need in 118 countries around the globe.
For more information, please visit:
www.feedthechildren.org
www.larryjones.tv
www.givingisgood.org
Contacts:
Feed The Children
Public Relations:
Rebecca Gass, 405-949-5140
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