Feed My Starving Children.

Tuesday night, myself along with 39 other Minnesota area bloggers met up in Eagan for a night of connection and service.

Missy of Marketing Mama put out an invite and organized the event for area bloggers and the response was amazing.

It was fun to meet new people and reconnect with the few I had met previously even if it was an hour drive. Each way.

I fell in love with the ministry of Feed My Starving Children and can't wait to go back. And I can't wait to bring my children.

There is a big difference between being hungry and being starving and we long ago told our kids that the word starving is not acceptable in our house. They have no concept of what that means.

Together, our group of 40 bloggers, plus some other volunteers that were present Tuesday night packed 13,824 meals in an hour. That is enough to feed THIRTY EIGHT people for one year.

And those meals we packed last night, they're on their way to Haiti. Though the event was planned long before the earthquake, it was even more satisfying to know that our work, our hour of chatting and packing assembly line style were going somewhere where it's especially needed right now.

Trish VanPilsum of Fox9 news was there and wrote an amazing testament of what the evening meant to her, please go read it. And because Trish has connections Fox9 news was there to film Minnesota bloggers in action, because I wasn't home from my hour long commute by the time it aired I missed it, but if it becomes available online I will definitely post the link.

Photo credit: Carrie.

For more information on Feed My Starving Children and volunteer and donation opportunities, please visit their site.

And if you plan on going to volunteer there, please let me know, I'd love to join you.

If you're an area blogger and would be interested in a future event like this please let me know so that as decisions are made about moving forward and doing this again I can pass along thoughts/ideas from others who may have not been able to attend last night's gathering.