>> My name is Brian Jenkins.
I'm the Executive Director of Chosen 300 Ministries.
While Chosen 300 is interdenominational [Inaudible] mission,
we focus on providing relief to the poor and to the homeless and to the needy.
We distribute about 150,000 meals a year throughout the Philadelphia region.
We have three regional locations.
One is in Center City, West Philadelphia, and Pottstown.
We not only provide meals but we do job training, computer labs, expungement services.
We even have a barbershop where you can get a haircut for free
and the idea is not just give a man a fish, but teach a man to fish
so they could move towards self-sufficiency.
We also distribute over 300,000 pounds of food around the world in 22 locations worldwide.
We operate in Guyana, Jamaica, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Liberia, Uganda.
We have an orphanage in Andhra Pradesh, India for 390 children.
We help escape child prostitution, work in a rice paddy field,
or being killed and sold for their body parts.
We can pull those kids off the streets and provide a place of safe haven for them
and also a refuge so they can grow up and live productive lives.
We've built wells.
We've done agriculture development.
We just recently settled land so we can build a school in Uganda.
So we really focus on just a holistic ministry of helping people not only get food,
but also get the aid that they need to move towards self-sufficiency but most importantly,
to give them the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which gives them hope for their journey.