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.
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.
So glad that we got together to support FMSC, it was such an amazing opportunity for us all.
It was great to talk to you a little more and yes… coffee soon.
So glad to *meet* you last night!
What an amazing time. Let's do it again soon – Maybe the northern location so as to make it more fair for you gals on that end of town?
What an amazing thing Samara!
It was great to meet you! I'd be interested in another event and happy to help with something if you decide to plan anything!
I am with Darcie, North is good!
It was great to meet you (hug you…)! Thanks so much for the book!!
Samara –
I have always wanted to do this!! Please let me know if there is another blogging event or maybe we could get a group of friends together to do it as well!! What a fullfilling evening you had!
Samara, it was great to meet you (even if only briefly) last night. Looking forward to getting to visit more another time soon!
I'd be more than willing to drive to the north FMSC! Especially to hang out with such a great group of people!
Lady, let's pick a time and do it with a small group of people. T and M included. The Coon Rapids facility isn't far from my house.
You, me, your dad, my dad, etc. It would be a great time.
And yes, it is my neck in my photos. I'm thinking the one with the blue necklace looks hot and may need to ask the calendar people if we can just photograph that part and nothing else!
This is really neat Samara! I'd love to volunteer sometime for something like that so definitely keep me in mind if you ever hear anything!
Why didn't I WRITE THIS DATE DOWN?? So very sorry I missed it.
Samara – It was super to meet you at the FMSC event. I look forward to the changes you bring to the world! Can't wait for our next event.
Great to meet you and at such an excellent event.
I blog a lot about kids and money matters so you know where to head with questions!
What a fantastic effort!
So great to chat with you on Tuesday, I almost didn't recognize your picture on your blog because there was no pink hat!!
That sounded like a wonderful time. I would definitely be interested in joining you, if/when you decided to do it again.
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Everything published was very logical. But, what about this? suppose you typed a catchier title? I mean, I don’t want to tell you how to run your blog, however suppose you added a title that grabbed folk’s attention? I mean Feed My Starving Children. is a little boring. You could look at Yahoo’s home page and see how they create post titles to grab viewers interested. You might try adding a video or a related pic or two to get readers excited about what you’ve written. In my opinion, it could bring your blog a little bit more interesting.