 Volunteers from all over our viewing area were in Bagley today to help feed my starving children. Our own Cheryl Moore tells us the event is helping kids all over the world. Because of the people in this room, hundreds of kids from 70 different countries around the world will be given a nutritious meal. This year we're packaging 24,000 more meals. Last year it was 124,000. This year it's 148,000. Feed My Starving Children is a Christian nonprofit that's committed to feeding children who suffer from malnutrition. This year, there were seven volunteer sessions, hosted over the course of two days. Each session had anywhere between 170 and 200 volunteers. North home, Cast Lake, Infernal, just about a 60 mile radius around Bagley where people are coming to help out. Each volunteer was given a job, which was a part of an even bigger system to package as much as possible in two hours. We'll break up into a few groups, labeling, making sure that all of the bags are ready to go, warehouse crew to support all the packing stations, and then at each of the different packing stations we'll combine four main ingredients, so vitamins, veggies, soy, and rice. This event will usually see about 600 volunteers from all over the state. For this one session alone there was 176. Those 176 volunteers packed more than 170 boxes today, which is equal to more than 37,000 meals. That means 102 kids will be fed for the whole year all because of this one group. When you think about 6,000 kids that die every day, and here we're doing this, I'm just so thankful we're doing it. For the folks who picked up the ladles today, many say getting the chance to help those less fortunate is what makes the experience worthwhile. I just think it's a really amazing thing because it's something that I get to do of my life. All seven sessions combined, this one event in Bagley will give more than 400 kids meals for an entire year. Organizers say they hope they can reach even more people next year. People just need to say, you know what, we need to feed the starving people. We're going to get involved. Reporting in Bagley, Shremor, Lakeland News. Feed My Starving Children will be back in Bagley exactly one year from today in 2019. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.