December 11, 2008
'Dead Day' Gives Life to Children Overseas
On Wed., Dec. 10, Belmont University students, faculty and staff teamed with EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Music Group, Word Entertainment and non-profit hunger-relief organization Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) to package meals for needy children in Thailand. The "Dead Day" event took place in the Curb Event Center Arena with volunteers participating in two-hour shifts. In just one day, more than 1,500 volunteers packed 426,816 meals, enough to feed 1,169 children for one year, breaking all previous one-day totals for FMSC. Click here for more on this story.
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