Thank you to all the participated at our 125,000 Meals Pack-a-Thon on July 31st. It was a tremendous success as we packed a total of 150,984 meals—25,000 more than our goal! During the Pack-a-Thon, our South Minneapolis satellite also surpassed the 1,000,000th meal packed since starting up in the Spring of 2008! It has been awesome to see and experience God doing so much through efforts of so many volunteers.
This year’s Pack-a-Thon also fulfilled the second portion of our Fill Their Plate Run event. On June 19th we had 549 people participate in the Inaugural Kids Against Hunger – Fill Their Plate 5K & 10K Runs. There were another 89 kids that participated in the 1/4 or 1/2 mile kids runs on the same day. Through our generous sponsors, that event helped raise the funds to purchase the initial 125,000 meals we packed. There were many that participated in the Run that showed up to pack the meals as well.
We’ll do it again next year, with the hope of raising even more funds to pack and ship food through the South Minneapolis Kids Against Hunger satellite.
Thanks again to all of you that helped make this possible!