The FEED movement has begun!!!

Praise the Lord and thanks to all for the support of FEED '08!!!

The results are in!!!

$100,000 was raised to impact 3 countries in southern Africa that are facing an extreme drought and famine (Zimbabwe, Swaziland, & Lesotho). The $100,000 was donated to World Vision, a Christian, humanitarian non-profit organization that is currently serving in over 100 countries around the world.

4 TONS of food was collected to jump-start the first viable food bank in Rutherford County. All the food items were donated to Greenhouse Ministries- a faith-based, interdenominational helps agency in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

The FEED movement has only just begun...

COME OUT TO THE RUN/WALK!!! THE FOOD DRIVE!!! THE CELEBRATION SERVICES!!!

The time is NOW!!!

From 8-11am, on October 18th...at New Vision Baptist Church (1750 N. Thompson Ln., Murfreesboro, TN 37129)...is the 6-Mile Run/Walk for FEED

FEED FOOD DRIVE: Following the Run/Walk, it's time to go pick up all the bags (that are now hopefully filled with food!) that you distributed to your "neighbors" in the community. OR, if you have a bag and you want to bring it to New Vision Baptist, YOU CAN anytime between 6am-3:30pm on Saturday (October 18th) you can bring it by!

The FEED Celebration Concerts start at 6:45pm on Saturday night! Christian artist RUSS LEE will be leading a wonderful time of worship and celebration! The Celebration Services will continue on Sunday morning, October 19th, at NVBC, with music being lead by Christian artist, TODD AGNEW!!! The services on Sunday will be offered at 8am, 9:30am, and 11am.

You won't want to miss any of these events! Come support the FEED movement!!!

Bitter/Sweet :-) :-(

Yesterday FEED presented for Bridgestone/Firestone in Lavergne. It was kind of last minute, I have to admit, but it was really special for many reasons. One was that we all pretty much figured that this was gonna be our last presentation as the FEED team of '08. I know, I know, pretty depressing but we had to face it. Now of course this doesn't mean that FEED is done, heck no! Feed will never be complete and there is so much work left to be done. We started it and it's up to others to receive the "torch of Feed" and continue our mission until Jesus comes back. So, presenting for Bridgestone was a bitter/sweet deal but I feel like it was one of our strongest presentations. We all hit what needed to be said and I really felt like we were doing it for the first time again(only better), it was an awesome feeling. I felt like we were strong, clear, commanding, and persuasive. At the end we really got to sit down w/ Shelly, one of the people we were presenting for and talk to her a little bit about how they could still be involved for years to come. We wanted to make sure that we started a great relationship w/ Bridgestone that would help other teams in the years to come. She had to admit to us that she really didn't think they would be able to donate much to us at all, but that she was going to do all she could to get the word out about us and pass it on to other business and companies. She was really sweet and actually took a few food drive bags w/ her because she wanted to help out w/ the food drive in her own neighborhood. Feed '08 isn't done yet, but we are coming to a close and we need your help now more than ever. I know we keep saying that ,but we really mean it now! It's gonna take the community of Murfreesboro to come together and fight for a cause bigger than ourselves. Come on guys, lets finish this thing right!
-A.G.

Check out our FEED news story posted on this great website!
Networking is amazing!
Thanks goes out to John at HobNobLocal.com of Murfreesboro!

http://www.hobnobmurfreesboro.com/page/123/index.v3page

The FEED FOOD DRIVE for Greenhouse Ministries has begun!!!

Pass out those bags!!!

Meet those neighbors!!!

Collect that food!!!

You can leave the bags on your neighbors front doors, maybe leave them in the mailboxes, or actually meet your neighbors and tell them what this is all about! Your neighbors may want to go ahead and fill the bag with food and give it back to you on the spot! It will save both of you time in the long run really!

Do you need to know more about who we're donating all this food to?


It is GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES, a local, interdenominational helps organization. Read all about them at www.greenhousemin.org

The NET Meeting: 10/7/08

I had the opportunity to present FEED to 30 different business owners in the Murfreesboro community on Tuesday morning at The Net. I was given 1 minute to give the whole story of FEED...what a challenge! Everyone seemed very interested, and I expressed our hope to have the opportunity to present our project to anyone willing to listen! After every business owner gave their 1-minute commercial, I also had a chance to give a "public service announcement." During this time, I shared about our FEED Food Drive for Greenhouse Ministries, the 6-Mile Run/Walk for FEED event, and the FEED Benefit Concerts. Two different business men came up to me after the meeting offering their services to help advertise for FEED on their websites. Also, a lady offered her services to help with the food drive! I gave her 30 FEED bags that she is going to keep at her stores for people to take and fill with food, bring them back to her store, and then she is going to bring them to New Vision! She also took 2 FEED posters to put up in her store windows. We have been blessed with many opportunities to spread the word about FEED here in Murfreesboro!

Let the FEED movement begin!

We have a Firstgiving site!

Hey everybody!

I created a site through Firstgiving that is just another way to get the word out about FEED. Our site is under the wing of Team World Vision. In the future, we will use it as a way for people to give financially. However, this year, I am asking you to NOT click the "sponsor me now" button because the finances will go to the wrong place; instead, read the info about us, and the address to mail checks to and who to make checks out to are listed on the site! Keep spreading the word about FEED 08!
We only have FOUR DAYS until the food drive andonly ELEVEN DAYS until the Run/Walk,
the end of the Food drive,and the first FEED Benefit Concert!
GET EXCITED!!!
Visit our Firstgiving site at the following address: http://www.firstgiving.com/FEED08

The DQ prayer man

Thursday night we presented for Campus Crusades @ MTSU and it went great! We talked to a lotta people afterwards and many seemed really motivated about helping w/ the food drive and attending the run/walk. Afterwards we went to Dairy Queen to hang out w/ some of the people for a minute( I won a FREE small blizzard!) While we were waiting for everyone to still arrive Misty, Kelly and I started talking. I'm gonna be very blunt and honest w/ you right now because I want ya'll to know how we were feeling at the moment. We felt down in the dumps, discouraged, stressed, confused and hopeless. It's one of those things where you just hit that point and you're like, that's it, I can't do this anymore, and I just wanna be done with all of it! Honestly I believe that was satan trying to discourage us and tear our team apart. We hadn't been praying enough and I think in our little human minds we overloaded ourselves forgetting who has ultimate control in this movement... GOD! Guys it's so easy to get caught up in the goal, and goals are awesome, I know we wouldn't be where we are now w/o one, but it's so crucial to also remember how far you've come. Look at where you were and where you are now. Forget for a second about your goal and who's watching, when you realize how far you've come, how much you've learned, and how well you've done it, it just makes you wanna reach your goal that much more! At the end of the day all I want is to say I gave my all, I pushed myslef to every limit possible and I can't feel bad about myself at all. I've done what God in His control wanted me to do and that right there is all I need to know! Meanwhile, while all this was going through my head and I was devouring my cookiedough blizzard(yum!), a guy came up to Misty and I wanting to know what we were all about. So we gave him the whole spill, trying to be as enthusiastic as possible about it but still feeling like two dummies. He nodded his head a couple of times and then shocked both of us by asking if he could pray for us right there in DQ! We were speechless but somehow managed to make some kind of eye contact I guess and then we bowed our heads and each grabbed one of his hands. His prayer was so powerful, it seemed as though God had told him exactly what to pray about and what we needed. By the end of it we were all weepy and snot-faced but I can tell you right now we felt like we had been lifted onto cloud 9, no like cloud 90! Unfortunatley through our clumsiness we never got his name but we don't really need it, we'll never forget him and I'm so thankful for how God sends certain people, even strangers to just blow you away. Never underestimate the power of God guys!
-A.G.

CHECK IT OUT!!!

www.murfreesboropost.com

look on the right hand side under the NEWS links...6th one down is FEED!!!

STARBUCKS HAS JOINED THE MOVEMENT!

Hey guys!
   So I know I've been bugging Brian a lot lately about trying to get the FEED movement started in or local Starbucks community here in the Boro. ;-)  I wanted to give you guys the update so far. I talked with the manager of the Sbux on Church St. (who had already heard about FEED from a partner at her store who goes to the Point - she apparently already put up posters!) and she is sending out an email to all the other managers in the area about starting a canned food drive at each store! We'll just make up some signs and place baskets at each store, and encourage both customers and partners alike to drop off items which will then be picked up Oct 17th/18th. :-)  Yea! 

Deanne Batorski- Starbucks Employee