An assembly line was thrown together inside Christian Life Assembly's gym and kitchen, and has sprung to life for the BC Summer Games.

Earlier this week, Eva and Dennis Spenst were gearing up to direct 100 volunteers in a program that will feed lunch to every athlete of the four-day Games currently underway.

"We're still a little bit nervous, but we will make it work," said Eva, just days before the operation would swing into action.

The Spensts are taking their Games volunteering seriously.

Dennis, a long-time employee with the Otter Co-op in Aldergrove, is taking leave before and during the Games. Eva is an Acts of Kindness advocate with Christian Life Assembly. The church is helping her and throwing its resources and space into the effort to bring together the boxed lunch program.

And it's an impressive program.

Every lunch will have a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a drink such as fruit juice, a health bar, cookie or Rice Krispie treat, and condiments.

The meals are not one-size-fits-all. The assembly line will be putting together special request lunches, from vegetarian options to allergy-sensitive meals.

"We have a special room especially for those lunches," Eva said. One room will be off limits to nuts entirely, and the volunteers there will be putting together gluten-free meals, as well.

The couple had worked to collect both supplies and people for the effort. They held a training session recently to get 70 volunteers trained in food safety regulations.

They also had to round up 600 banana boxes, in which the lunches will be transported to 18 venues around Langley, Abbotsford, Surrey, and Port Moody.

They have to order and pick up all the food supplies, with much of the food coming from sponsors like Overwaitea.

The Spensts are putting together their lunch program with a lot of experience at volunteering - they've done community service for 25 years, mostly through CLA - but they've never run a lunch program like this, nor have they had the benefit of consulting with the volunteers who created the lunches at the last BC Summer Games. They only found out they would be doing this job in the first few weeks of May, giving them just two and a half months to throw the operation together.

However, the Spensts say they have a lot of support, including from the employees at their church, who are offering a lot of help.

The one downside for the couple is that they'll be practically living in the lunch prep centre for four days. They won't see a single one of the Games they're supporting.

"Even the opening ceremonies, we're going to miss," Dennis said.

The couple doesn't seem depressed about the prospect, however.

Throwing their all into supporting a community event, and helping young people succeed, is all the reward they say they need.