Beginnings

Calvin Horn, Noon Day’s founder, knew what it was to be hungry. As a child living in Albuquerque, he often lacked enough food to eat. His widowed mother was too sickly to work due to her battle with tuberculosis and his extended family was over a thousand miles away in Kentucky. As such, the only source of income for his family was the meager earnings he and his brother, H.B., made delivering newspapers during the Great Depression.

After the Lord blessed his business endeavors and career in politics, Calvin’s greatest desire was to help those who were in need like he had been as a child and young man. Then, in 1982, a single Bible verse revealed to Calvin the vision God had called upon him to undertake. Isaiah 58:10 states: “And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like the noonday.”

Initially, with the help of his Sunday School class at First Baptist Church, Calvin arranged to provide meals to the needy in Albuquerque once a week for four weeks. However, the Lord had much greater plans for this Noon Day. Given the number of people who came to be fed, Calvin clearly saw the need that existed in Albuquerque and began to prepare plans to develop a feeding ministry. What started as a Sunday School project emerged into the largest homeless and near homeless feeding program in New Mexico.

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