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“Just give it a try and see if you like it."

It might be just a way to get kids to eat their vegetables. But it might also be our first introduction to a sacred truth. “Taste and see that the Lord is good,” David wrote as he looked back on God’s life-saving intervention. In essence, he is saying, “don’t take my word for it, step out and give it a try.”

This catalog is an opportunity for you to taste and see. Your generosity can set the stage for God to move in incredible ways during whatever disaster comes next.

Taste and See

That the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.

PSALM 34:8 NKJV

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Help restore the joy of the holiday season with meals that create lasting memories. You can remind disaster survivors they are not alone, not forgotten, and that better days are ahead.

Holiday Hot Meals

Your support fed families in need where disaster struck earlier this year. You can show them they are not forgotten and send Mercy Chefs back to communities that were devastated by disaster with a beautiful holiday meal. Just $30 provides a family of five with a chef-prepared holiday meal—that's $6 per person! Your generosity can make it possible to serve several families this season. Together, we can bring the warmth and comfort of a shared table to families in need.
 

Holiday Family Grocery Boxes

Empty cupboards are every parent’s worst nightmare. Worldwide, that stress grows exponentially during the holidays. You can help families gather around the dinner table, both here at home and through feeding partners worldwide. Each $50 Holiday Family Grocery Box provides region-specific, shelf-stable groceries and ingredients to make holiday favorites.
 

Hot Meals in Disaster Zones

Disaster changes everything. In an instant, a mother can go from deciding what to make for dinner to wondering where her families’ next meal will come from. You can ease that burden. For just $3.50, you can provide a hot, delicious plate of food that will calm an anxious heart and fill an empty belly. For just $35, you can provide hot, delicious meals to 10 disaster victims!
 

Long-Term Relief Bundle

After disaster strikes, families face the difficult task of rebuilding while wondering where their next meal will come from. Rising grocery costs only add to the burden. For just $85, you can bridge the gap by providing a family with a bundle of hot meals, bottled water, and a Family Grocery Box with ingredients for 50 home-cooked meals. These essentials help families reconnect and support long-term recovery.
 
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Disaster can strike without warning, but you can be the hands and feet of Jesus on someone's worst day. By sponsoring hot, chef-prepared meals and groceries, you can offer comfort, dignity, and a sense of normalcy when victims need it most.

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Outside of disasters, families across the U.S. struggle to put food on the table. By supporting Community Kitchens, you help provide meals to underserved neighbors while equipping families with the skills and tools needed for long-term stability.

Youth Cooking & Nutrition Classes

Teaching young minds about balanced nutrition can break the food insecurity cycle before it starts. For just $60, you can sponsor four teens to participate in youth cooking classes, where they'll learn how to fuel their bodies, fall in love with food, and discover the joy of food preparation.
 

Single-Parent Cooking Class

Single parents carry the weight of the world. You can lighten the load for just $75 by sponsoring three cooking classes that educate busy moms and dads about good nutrition and teach simple techniques that take the intimidation out of meal preparation.
 
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Community Kitchen Monthly Support

Community Kitchens are a lifeline for needy families in each of our five locations. You can provide life-changing nutrition each month in one of those locations. Your recurring gift will make hot, delicious meals accessible to food-insecure communities by covering supplies, staffing, and delivery expenses.
 

Meals for Hungry Kids

Imagine sending your children to bed hungry. Far too many parents across the country don’t have to imagine it. They live it. One in five children live in food-insecure homes, which is why Community Kitchens are strategically placed to feed hungry kids where the need is greatest. A gift of $120 can provide 30 hot, nutritious meals to help families access life-changing nutrition for their kids.
 

Christmas Gifts for Kids in War-torn Ukraine

As war continues to rage in Ukraine, children are suffering some of the steepest consequences. Many have been orphaned or left alone to navigate war-torn villages and towns. For just $20, you can remind a child that they are loved, cared for, and not alone with a box containing necessities like socks and toiletries, along with toys and treats.
 

Audio Bibles

Bring the hope of the Gospel to all. Educational resources are slim in many remote parts of the world. Some may go their entire lives without learning to read. But for just $40, you can make sure the Word reaches every heart through an audio Bible presented in each recipient's native language.
 
Mercy Chefs Global

From daily feeding programs to catastrophic disaster response, Mercy Chefs Global fights hunger, strengthens communities, and helps disaster survivors rebuild toward stability. Your generosity helps ensure no disaster victim is out of reach.

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Thailand Mobile Field Kitchen

You can help reach the unreachable. Mercy Chefs Mobile Field Kitchens are custom-equipped four-wheel-drive refrigerated trucks that carry everything we need to serve 7,500 hot meals a day in the most remote locations, including some nations beyond Thai borders. A generous partner has already offered half the purchase amount as a matching challenge. You can double your impact with any gift!
 
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A generous partner has pledged a matching gift toward a Mobile Field Kitchen in Thailand. Your gift can help unlock this matching challenge and bring us one step closer to reaching communities in need. Every gift makes twice the impact!

Venezuela

Many families in Venezuela don’t have enough food to make it through the day. When disaster strikes, on top of political unrest, economic challenges, and social instability, the needy suffer most. Twin earthquakes decimated a population that was already on the brink this summer. Now that the rebuild has begun, you can fuel the work. Your gift will continue serving hot meals and providing groceries that will restore hope for a nation that has lost so much.
 
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Provide meals each month to families in a country of your choice. You can deliver life-sustaining nutrition, hope, and the strength to rebuild from disaster through Mercy Chefs’ feeding programs.

Philippines

Typhoon Ragasa was only the latest in a long string of disasters that struck the Philippines—one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Mercy Chefs has established regular feedings with partners inside the country, along with the support of the Filipino military. That relationship has allowed us access to regions where no other Christian group has trod before. You can continue sharing the love of Christ through vital nutrition by sponsoring a month of feeding in the Philippines.
 

Nepal

When a massive wall of water, ice, and mud roared through Nepal, thousands lost their lives. Families scratching out a living lost everything in an instant. And before they even had a chance to recover, a second flood careened through the valley in October. A long road to recovery awaits the people of Nepal. You can bring hope through an entire month of grocery meals that will empower struggling families and provide the strength to rebuild.
 

Uganda

Our feeding partners in Uganda wake each day to find families gathered in the front yard, desperate for any food they can get to feed their children. A severe drought has decimated food supplies in rural villages like Kaabong. Multiple fires have made matters much worse. There is no backup plan for these communities. When food and water run out, they simply go to bed hungry and thirsty, then pray for enough to keep them alive tomorrow. You can provide that life-saving nutrition.
 

Pakistan

A simple bag of groceries can move struggling families one step closer to freedom from bondage. In central Pakistan, entire families—children and elderly included—are forced into making endless stacks of bricks. The wage they earn is barely enough to keep them alive, much less pay down their debts. You can bridge that gap. By supporting a month of feeding, you enable local partner churches to bring hot meals and groceries that allow families to apply more of their wages toward their freedom.
 
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Your generosity can equip our Tanner, Alabama, Storehouse with the food and supplies needed to keep Mercy Chefs ready to deliver help and hope within hours of disaster.

Response-Ready Freezer Space

Large food donations are crucial to preparing quality meals for disaster victims. Right now, there is no place to store perishable ingredients in the Tanner Storehouse. That means food must travel separately from the Mobile Kitchens stored there. You can help Mercy Chefs respond even faster by installing a freezer for large food donations that will be ready to go immediately when it’s time for the trucks to hit the road.
 

Storehouse Climate Control

Alabama summer arrives quickly and hangs around longer than our Logistics Team prefers. Your generosity can help install a cooling system that will keep working conditions milder in the summer. A heating system will also protect from freezing temperatures in the winter, keeping this team that is so vitally important to deployments restored and ready for the next call. Climate control will also extend the life of the supplies by protecting them from excessive heat and cold.
 

Food Safe Preparation Facility

You can turn part of a humble storehouse into a food-safe preparation facility. Sometimes raw ingredients need to be broken down or prepared before they find their way into the delicious, chef-prepared meals we serve disaster victims and first responders. Your generosity can make food product donations even more viable by supporting a space to prepare and store it.
 

Storehouse Supply Restock

In over 20 years of disaster relief, 2026 has been the busiest year on record. This summer alone saw six back-to-back deployments. You made it possible to respond. Now, we need to replenish the Storehouse. Your gift will help restock essential supplies, including bottled water, cutlery kits, food containers, serving utensils, and pans needed to serve hot, chef-prepared meals. Together, we can ensure Mercy Chefs is ready to respond and serve communities in need.
 

Ram 3500 Tow Vehicle

Your generosity provides hot, chef-prepared meals that remind people they are seen, known, and loved. But achieving that quality is only possible with Mercy Chefs Mobile Kitchens. You can help get those kitchens where they need to go by supporting a tow vehicle that can pull 42-foot trailers stacked with restaurant-quality tools and appliances, capable of serving up to 10,000 meals daily.
 

Give with confidence!

At Mercy Chefs, every dollar you give helps feed body and soul. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, we keep overhead costs low, ensuring your gift goes directly to the cause that matters most to you. Whether your donation supports disaster relief, our Community Kitchens, or other vital initiatives, we are committed to delivering excellence, compassion, and sustainability in everything we do.

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