Feed My Starving Children

Last Thursday, my friend Dixie and a few other moms in our neighborhood took our kids to Feed My Starving Children for the afternoon. If you haven't heard of this organization, I would highly recommend checking out their website. Basically, it's a christian nonprofit that seeks to feed malnourished children in over 70 countries around the world. The food is specially formulated for malnourished children as they found that when these children ate our american crackers, bread, cookies, etc it made them incredibly ill. So some incredibly smart people at General Mills and Cargill teamed up to come up with this special formula that volunteers (like us!!) pack into bags to be sent off. Over 93% of the food we pack is purchased through donations and then all the food is packed by volunteers. It's an amazing organization and Dixie and I were excited to take the kids as well as some of our neighbors who may or may not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Titus, Wyatt and Sadie's first time!! (Gotta love the hairnets!)

Dixie helping out some of the kids

Wyatt on 'rice' duty

Sadie on 'veggie' duty

In each bag, the ingredients are added in a specific order and specific amount of each...chicken, veggies, soy and rice. In this picture, Sadie is on veggies, Wyatt has soy and Titus has rice.

Each item is dumped into that funnel you see in the front of the picture into the special bags and then weighed and sealed--Jada (on the left) is holding the completed product

Our table--I love that both Jada and Sadie were dancing for the picture--classic them!

Wyatt on bag duty, calling out 'chicken!'

Titus was a perfect fit for the scale duty....he loves precision and each time would call out if we were too high, too low, or just right

Dixie and I are really praying that these boys are together in 2nd grade...they have been together since their BSF group in preschool and I don't know if they would know what to do without one another (or would Dixie and I would do without them being together! Although her youngest, Onyx, and Sadie will be in the same Kindergarten class!)

Our table with a Kevin and Andy--a few neighborhood kids we brought along

The kids trying a sample of what the food tastes like. Wyatt loved it! However, I had to explain to the kids that the children who receive this food only get one cup of it EACH DAY!! And they are so thankful for that one cup. In fact, they showed us a picture of a malnourished boy who was 7 years old (Wyatt and Titus' age) who weighed only 19lbs (that's what Wyatt weighed at 6 mos old!) After eating FMSC food for 6 months, he weighed 75 pounds and was smiling and healthy! What a blessing for us to be able to pack meals for these kids! And we packed enough to feed 45 children for a year--way to go kids!!