Southern Adventist University partners with Feed My Starving Children

November 15, 2017 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated November 13, 2017 at 9:24 p.m.

by Compiled by Jennifer Bardoner

Zhuoyue Li, left, a sophomore music major, and Dennis Li, a junior theology major, fill MannaPacks with rice, soy, veggies and a blend of vitamins and minerals. "Service is at the heart of everything we do here at Southern," said SAU President David Smith. "I think service bonds people together."
Zhuoyue Li, left, a sophomore music major, and Dennis Li, a junior theology major, fill MannaPacks with rice, soy, veggies and a blend of vitamins and minerals. "Service is at the heart of everything we do here at Southern," said SAU President David Smith. "I think service bonds people together."

As local families prepare to sit down to a Thanksgiving feast, the ingredients for a basic meal are being sent to malnourished children around the world.

Thanks to the help of more than 450 volunteers from Southern Adventist University - alumni, students, employees and friends - more than 101,000 meals were packed for Feed My Starving Children, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that sends nutritious meals to 70 countries.

SAU's efforts mean 276 children will have enough to eat for an entire year, said Janell Hullquist, part of the marketing and university relations team.

"... To think of the potential that some of these kids have and the plan God has for them to maybe be president, or to maybe be an Olympic athlete, or to radically change the world in some way - but they can't do that because their parents can't feed them and so they don't [live to] see adulthood - just breaks my heart," event supervisor Tara Bugg said. "So to be able to partner with an organization whose true goal is to change the world is something I'm very passionate about."

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