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Million Meal Event

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Million Meal Event

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me…

– Matthew 25:35

Upcoming Event

San Diego Million Meal Event

People are assembling meal packages under a tent. One person, wearing a hairnet and jacket, reaches for a packet on a table filled with food bags, while others are engaged in the task nearby.

How to Participate

Volunteers of all ages and from all corners of the region come together joyously for one purpose: pack 1 million meals for kids living in poverty. They work in teams, assembly-line style, all to the beat of fun music.


In 2023, the volunteers wanted to keep going even as rain poured. So many turned out in 2024 that they finished early.

This extraordinary event returns in 2025 on Saturday, June 14, at Cathedral Catholic High School, with set up on the 13th.

The organizers, the deacons of the San Diego Diocese, will once more need at least 3,000 volunteers and donations to buy the meal ingredients.


They will reach out to parishes, schools, clubs and families to invite them to participate as a group, and to raise funds for the event. Every $1 that is donated pays for four nutritious meals, in collaboration with the organization Kids Around the World. Please return to this page for more information soon.

And save the date — June 14, 2025 — to put your faith in action – and to have fun.

Our Impact

Meals delivery in Tijuana

Thank You to San Diego Diocese

The food packed by volunteers in the Million Meal Event in June 2023 was distributed to the poorest families in Tijuana and Zambia.

The meal packets were tangible proof that individuals, families and parishes gladly put their faith in action to ease a child’s hunger and to bring them hope.

Our Faith in Action

Contacts

Deacon Mike Daniels

Lead Event Coordinator
(St. Brigid Parish)
Mission Deanery

Caroline Kelner

St. Brigid Parish

Cathedral Deanery

Deacon James Scull
Ascension Parish

Mission Deanery

Deacon Mike Daniels
St. Brigid Parish

South Bay Deanery

Deacon Wil Hollowell
Corpus Christi Parish

El Cajon Deanery

Deacon Jerry Stenovec
St. Luke Parish

Escondido Deanery

Deacon Kevin Murray

Sacred Heart Parish (Coronado)

Oceanside Deanery

Deacon John Fredette
St. Thomas More Parish

El Centro Deanery

Deacon Domingo Enriquez
El Centro Catholic

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