Our Youth Group will be participating in World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine which raises money and awareness for the plight of people throughout the world who suffer from hunger and malnourishment. They will be engaged in a 30-hour famine from the evening of Good Friday to breakfast on Easter Sunday. Please pray for them as they participate in this event and consider giving donations towards World Vision and their program to help stop world-hunger. Please contact our Youth Director Mike Fahey or assistant Andy Schmidt for more details.
Here’s information from the worship bulletin inserts concering the famine:
You may be wondering why students would be willing to not only give their time, but also give up eating for 30 hours when they participate in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine. It’s simple: they are going without food so that others can eat.
But there’s more to the 30 Hour Famine than simply not eating. One of the many reasons groups do the 30 Hour Famine is to grow closer together-to create camaraderie by working side-by-side toward a common goal.
Another tangible result of the Famine comes through the simple act of going without food on behalf of children half a world away, drawing participants closer to Christ. They experience compassion, feeling the hunger of children who don’t have a choice about their own circumstances.
Assuming it takes you two minutes to read this insert, forty children under the age of five will have died by the time you have finished. FORTY CHILDREN. And those deaths are from hunger, poverty, and hunger-related diseases – all completely preventable. The good news is that our youth group has decided to do something about it: World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine.
The problem is huge, but the solution is not. Just $30 a month -roughly $1 a day – can help feed and care for a child in most developing countries.
As students go 30 hours without food, they’ll get a taste of what it’s like to be hungry, all the while reaching out to others in need. And as they do that, their compassion will grow: for people around the world, and right here at home.
Please help our youth group by:
- Praying for the Famine participants, and for those they’re working to save.
- Supporting Famine participants with a donation. It’s through your gifts that lives are changed forever
Thanks, and God bless!
