Imagine spy music playing in the background and "agents" as young as 7 years old being assigned top secret missions. That's protocol for Mission Possible Kids, a nonprofit organization that encourages kids to "change the world" through community service.

Missions range from collecting goods for food banks and cooking meals for homeless shelters to making gifts for hospitalized children and raising money to end world hunger. Acts of kindess are recorded on a world map and "Lives Touched" are counted on a Mission Tracker. After each mission is completed, agents earn Mission Stars to be promoted in status (every six missions earns a promotion in Special Agent status), and kids receive a MPKids T-shirt.

Come September 18–20, Mission Possible Kids will be leading an effort at the Plano Balloon Festival for U.S. soldiers wounded in action overseas. Hundreds of pairs of blue jeans have been collected over the summer to be sewn into patriotic quilts for festival attendees to write wishes of recovery and appreciation to the soldiers. Finished quilts will then be sent to the military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, and to military helicopters that medevac the wounded from the front lines. Look for the Mission Possible Kids booth to sign a square on behalf of a wounded soldier.

“Military leaders tell us that these get-well blankets are critical in the recovery of our wounded soldiers who often believe people back home have forgotten about them,” said Kathy Meadows, Founder and Executive Director of Mission Possible Kids. “Making sure our soldiers know we appreciate their sacrifice is the least we can do, and I hope that everyone will come to the Plano Balloon Festival to let our soldiers know they care.”

Mission Possible Kids is a Plano-based nonprofit organization that is currently in 16 states. In the last three years, participating elementary-aged children have helped 200,000 people worldwide. For more information, call 1.877.MPKIDS.1 or visit mpkids.org.