Our High School Ministry is participating in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine this weekend. We begin at 7AM today, and will not eat until 1PM on Saturday afternoon.
The idea came from our senior girls small group. They have been reading “The Hole In Our Gospel”, by Richard Stearns, and ended up in a discussion about what they could do to exercise their faith and serve others. So for us, it was student initiated and is student led. Very cool!
Each student has asked people to sponsor them for the famine. Any money raised will go towards rebuilding Haiti. Saturday morning we will have a car wash, and a few groups will head to various service projects around the community.
Here are some stats about world hunger:
- 840 million people in the world don’t have enough to eat.
- 1/3 of the world’s population (2 billion) live on less than $2 a day.
- 26,000 children die each day from hunger.
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