As our team is wrapping up our deployment to Live Oak, I want to share with you a brief video from Chef Lisa, our Director of Disaster Relief and Long-Term Recovery.

Chef Lisa has served on countless deployments with Mercy Chefs, and she always starts meal service with words of encouragement and a prayer for our volunteers. Here's what Chef Lisa shared with our team in Live Oak:

Chef Lisa expresses the very heart of Mercy Chefs -- to offer a helping hand in the form of a hot meal to those impacted by disaster and hardship.

Thanks to friends like you, Mercy Chefs prepared and delivered over 29,500 hot meals to the folks in Live Oak -- our second deployment to this community in the past year.

I'm so grateful for every prayer you have prayed and every dollar you have contributed for this and all our Mercy Chefs outreaches. Thanks to you, we are feeding tens of thousands of people every week.

May God bless you,

Gary

P.S. This has been an extremely active storm season. Your continued support makes every deployment and every meal served possible. Thanks so much for partnering with us.