Holiday Spotlight: Thanksgiving Gobble Jog [VIDEO]

Enjoy music, exercise and Thanksgiving fun while helping fight poverty at MUST Ministries' 10th annual Gobble Jog.

This week's Cobb, Douglas and Paulding Weekend & Community Spotlight features the 10th Annual Gobble Jog by MUST Ministries. The  road race on Thanksgiving morning raises money to fight poverty. This year’s theme, “It’s kind of a big deal,” heralds the Nov. 22 event that will hopefully attract 10,000 runners, building on last year’s 9,453 attendees. Proceeds from the race help MUST Ministries provide 34,000 individuals each year with food, shelter, education and employment opportunities, clothing and access to healthcare to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness and foster long-term change. Visit Patch's Event Calendar for more details on the Gobble Jog and how to register. Got a great event coming up in your community? Upload it onto…

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Gobble Jog Inspires Kennesaw Woman

The event was a catalyst for Julie Austin, who took the incident as a message for her own life.

VIDEO: MUST Ministries Fights Hunger

Volunteers served nearly 190,000 lunches to families in need this summer.

The Summer Lunches Program at MUST Ministries has just ended, and volunteers handed out a total of 189,648 lunches to needy children this summer—a 34 percent increase from last year. MUST started the Summer Lunch Program in 1995 in Cobb and Cherokee Counties in an effort to fight child hunger. In 2011, MUST Volunteers delivered 103,000 lunches to hungry children in Cobb and Cherokee, and the program was expanded to Douglas, Paulding, North Fulton and Gwinnett communities this year.

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July 4th Causes Dip in Summer Lunch Donations

The children MUST Ministries serves don’t go on vacation, but the people who help provide meals do.

by MUST Ministries While thousands of people race off to the beach or the mountains for July 4th week, area children are still racing to the MUST vans to pick up their daily lunches. “The problem is when people go on vacation, we receive fewer donated lunches, but we have the same number of hungry children,” according to Paula Rigsby, Seasonal Coordinator for MUST Ministries. MUST is now serving 3,700 children a day in six counties and desperately needs people to donate lunches during the holiday week. The children we serve don’t go on vacation, she explained, but the people who help us provide meals do. That situation creates a shortage of food that must be made up because the food has been promised to these children. There are several …

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MUST Ministries Needs Help Feeding Hungry Kids

Volunteers are needed to pack and deliver bag lunches.

MUST Ministries’ dire need for volunteers could impact hungry kids. School ended for Cobb County last week, and for most students their summer promises free time and family vacations. But for some Cobb kids enrolled in the federal free and reduced lunch program, it means gnawing hunger and uncertainty. MUST Ministries’ summer lunch program offers these kids a bag lunch every weekday during the summer, but so far there aren’t enough volunteers to pack lunches and deliver them to the kids, said Jennifer Richmond, the Cobb County summer lunch coordinator. “We need drivers more than checker/packers,” she said. “We still need people to make the lunches because they’re all donated. We need drivers out of Smyrna, the Milford Baptist area and …

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PatchCast: Fatal Crashes; Snow in Forecast; Small Business Saturday

Here are some of the highlights from Kennesaw and nearby Patches for Nov. 28

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