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30 Hour Famine – Recap

Rebekah Freed

Hello All!

Well, we made it to the end!  The 30-Hour Famine was a success (in my opinion at least).  22 youth and 4 adult participants from four area churches gave up eating for 30 hours so others could eat!  I hope to tell more specifics in the days to come about our experience.  But for now, here are some highlights:

  • Anne Miller and Jon Whited making our “Tribe:Haiti” experience come to life a little more by sharing stories from their trips to Haiti.
  • Celebrating Jon’s birthday on Friday night with a candle put straight on a plate (since we couldn’t eat anything) and then with the treats his parents brought for dessert when we broke our fast this evening. 
  • Lots of laughter and games!
  • Going door-to-door collecting food, coats, and blankets for those in need. (Yes, in the wind and the snow). 
  • Later in the day, a man showed up at church with 7 more blankets that he wanted to donate to our collection for people to keep warm this winter.
  • We left some of the food we collected to the First Trinity Food Pantry and then took nearly 70 extra pounds of food to the Food Bank of WNY where we toured their warehouse and learned more about those in need around our area.
  • The Canfield Family cooked us an awesome spaghetti supper to break our fast and helped clean everything up!

Thanks to everyone who helped out and especially a big thanks to all the youth participants who gave up their time, money, and food for 30 hours so others can have what they need.  You’re AWESOME!

Crossroads, First Trinity

When You go to Bed Tonight…

Rebekah Freed

I just finished eating dinner.  It was warm.  It included aspects from various food groups.  There were leftovers (which I’ll enjoy tomorrow for lunch too).  I will go to bed content, in a warm bed.

 

Yet. every night, including tonight, more than a billion people will go to bed hungry. That’s 1 in 6 people on the planet.

 

Some people may say, “Well there’s nothing we can really do about it… there will always be hungry kids… people will continue dying from hunger.  That’s just the way it is. ”

 

Well, those of us participating this weekend in the 30 Hour Famine say, they’re wrong and want to DO something to make a difference. 

 

God’s Word tells us that he desires a world where “those who were hungry hunger no more” (1 Samuel 2:5). God also says that true worship is “to loose the chains of injustice,” “to set the oppressed free,” and “to share your food with the hungry” (Isaiah 58:6-7).

So that’s what we’re going to do this weekend. We’ll go without so others can eat, because it’s not OK to sit here while hunger kills another 8,000 kids today. It’s not OK to let apathy have the last word. Not when we can write a different story for the planet.

Please know that these posts are not to make you feel guilty, but rather we challenge you to get involved.  Here are some ways to do just that:

  • Pray for those of us participating in the famine that we would be challenged to make a difference and have the energy and strength to go without so other may have.
  • Sponsor us this weekend financially.  Every $30 we raise feeds and cares a kid for a month.  That means for $360 a child will experience an entire year of not having to go to bed hungry.
  • Check out WorldVision.com to see other ways you can impact lives all over the world.

Come back here tomorrow to hear more information about people who are hungry here in WNY and what the students will be doing to make a difference.