Feed My Starving Children

This morning P and I spent two hours helping pack meals for Feed My Starving Children (www.fmsg.org). Our church committed 500 volunteers to pack 100,000 meals to be distributed to hungry children worldwide. They ended up getting 900 volunteers and had to turn others away. The shift we did this morning was one of four shifts today and we packed over 45,000 meals...enough to feed 124 children one meal a day for a year. Packing the meals consisted of measuring out a chicken flavored vitamin-mineral mixture, measuring dehydrated vegetables, soy, and rice. The meals were then packed into cases and the organization distributes them to relief organizations in over sixty countries. To prepare the meals, the bags just have to be placed in boiling water. P and I worked stations to load the food bag on a funnel and weigh the bags to make sure the appropriate amount of food was in each bag. It was just two hours out of our Sunday and I left feeling so appreciative for everything I have and that Isla is going to have a warm, safe, home with plenty to eat and also feeling amazed at how easy it can be to a difference in the lives of others.....a group of about 200 of us packed food to feed 124 kids for a year in just two hours. Our church will collect a special offering Christmas Eve to purchase food for this organization so more meals can be packed for kids.