Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” John 21:15

FLOK is a ministry of Garris Chapel. Here’s how it works. Friday afternoons backpacks will be dropped off at a specific school location. Each will be full of enough food for one child to last an entire weekend. On Monday morning, the children will return the backpacks to a designated location, where they will be picked up and packed for the following weekend.

Hi, welcome to the FLOK website!
My name is Christina Brown. My husband and I started FLOK, For the Love of Kids, in March of 2009 at Garris Chapel United Methodist Church in La Grange, North Carolina. FLOK is currently serving over 100 children in the Goldsboro/La Grange area. With the passion of several in our area who are dedicated to help end world hunger, we are able to provide nourishment to children in our community.

My heart is drawn to helping and caring for children. Let me tell you why. In 1977 I was born to Spencer and Debbie. Soon after came two sisters, all of us two years apart. We lived in an old flat in Hartford, Connecticut in a tough crime-ridden neighborhood; the kind of place that none of us wish for our children to live in. I have heard so many times that children don’t remember events in their lives at a young age. Let me tell you, if they’re traumatic enough, they will. I remember at times not having electricity, being scared when it was getting dark without mom or dad at home, and sleeping in a single crib with my sisters because we did not have a bed other than the one my parents slept in when they were home. I remember cockroaches on the floors, on the walls, and crawling on us when we slept. I remember being hungry and having to literally scrounge around in the fridge only to find a glass jar of pickle juice that I ended up drinking (oddly enough, I still love pickles). I recently learned that I was hospitalized for months after drinking bleach. During that time I was in an out of a consciousness, maybe that’s why I don’t remember this event. I was near death, but God still needed me here ….. I remember breaking jars of baby food to feed my sisters because I was not strong enough to open the lids. If we had milk, I would give it to them. I couldn’t stand to hear my sisters cry from hunger. I would go hungry so they wouldn’t. I remember seeing a brown, glass bottle on the window ledge; being thirsty, I drank it – my first drink of alcohol at the age of four. I was a child - hungry and thirsty.
I remember the gnawing pain from not having food in my belly. I remember the thirst and reaching for the little brown bottle out of desperation. I remember the broken jars and feeding my sisters while trying not to give them glass. Children should not have to worry about their next meal. I have opened

“…for I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” Matthew 25:35

Let me share stories of some of the children FLOK has helped:
There was a little boy this past school year whose family not only struggled to put food on the table, but experienced a tragic loss. Simon’s (not actual name) family came from Honduras. His father was a hard worker who tried to provide for his family. After some time, Simon’s father came to the realization that he could not make ends meet, much of it due to difficulty finding a permanent job. He went back to Honduras to find work. While gone he was killed. He left behind three children and a wife. Here’s what he wasn’t able to leave behind: money, vehicle, and electricity. FLOK was there for them. FLOK provided food for the children and a page long list of agencies that are available to help in time of need. FLOK was able to relieve some of the burden the mother was experiencing while trying to find a job and feed her three children.
There was also Joshua who lives in a home where there is no phone service, on some occasions goes without electricity, and had only a frozen chicken in his freezer for his family to eat. Joshua went hungry on weekends—until people like you contributed foods and funds to FLOK. Now Joshua takes home a back-pack of nutritious, kid-friendly foods every Friday afternoon.

Who we serve:
FLOK feeds children from many different ethnic backgrounds, life experiences, and family situations. Unfortunately, families all over the county are struggling. Hunger is not an ethnic specific epidemic; it is worldwide amongst all people. Some of these children are hungry because their parents cannot find jobs or have physical handicaps that prevent them from working. Some are hungry because they lost everything in a home fire and didn’t have insurance, and yes, there are some who go hungry because their parents will not be responsible. We are not called to judge their circumstances. We are called to love those children and FLOK gives us a way to show our love in a tangible, life-sustaining, hope-giving way.
It is not our place to judge. It is our place to feed. “Red and yellow, black and white, we are precious in HIS sight.” Jesus loves ALL the children of the world.

Thank you so much for
your prayers and support!!