World Vision 30 Hour Famine
If you see teenagers tonight or tomorrow that seem to be running on adrenaline alone, you may be right. World Vision is sponsoring a 30 Hour Famine today and tomorrow. Here's the...scoop:
What is the 30 Hour Famine?
The 30 Hour Famine puts hands and feet to your desire to help students live a life of Christian compassion.
It will unite youth group members like never before. And the impact will last long after the Famine event is over. It can be the spark that fires up a person for a lifetime of reaching out to neighbors in need, whether they're across the street - or around the globe.
How does the Famine work?
It's really quite simple. First of all, the materials are provided, free of charge, by World Vision. Before your "Famine Date"...youth group members raise money through donors and sponsors to help the millions of starving and hurting children in some of the world's poorest countries, offering them a hope they could not otherwise have. The groups then go 30 hours without food, so that they can have a real taste of what hunger is like. During this time they engage in different activities, from community service projects to volunteer work to study, depending on how each group plans their own event. Afterwards the money raised is sent in to World Vision, and we put it to work in areas like Kenya, Sudan, and here in the United States.
What does it take to help a hungry child?
Only $30 a month, just $1 a day, will feed and care for a child. Your group members can start by asking twelve people they know to donate $30 - that's one person for each month of the year. When they've done that, they will have raised $360, enough money to feed and provide necessary care to a child for a whole year.
This year, thousands of groups in more than 21 countries - more than 1 million teens - will unite with one goal in mind: to help children living in some of the most deplorable conditions on earth.
Countless lives will be impacted and saved. So get on board now. This can be the single most effective event you're a part of all year to make a difference in peoples' lives. And this means both in your community, and around the globe. Shake things up, and join the winnable war to save kids lives.
From the Lompoc Record:
Members of three Lompoc churches will fast this weekend to raise money for global victims of starvation.
The fast is part of a international project dubbed 30 Hour Famine, spearheaded by World Vision, a Christian relief and development organization. Church and community members sponsor participants who forego food (consuming only juice) for 30 hours starting today through Saturday evening.
In addition, federal government grants will provide matching funds up to seven times each dollar raised. All the proceeds are donated to World Vision, which supports more than 2,900 projects in almost 100 countries, including the United States.
Eighty-seven percent of every dollar raised is used for ministry services, including international relief and development programs, according to World Vision's Web site.
Trinity Church of the Nazarene, North Avenue Baptist Church and First Presbyterian Church of Lompoc are raising money for the project. The majority of participants are from each church's youth group.
"Our kids are very service oriented so this wasn't a hard task for us to do," said Joey Robinson, youth pastor at Northern Avenue Baptist. "They've never fasted before so that's new for them. It's new for a lot of people because not a lot of people fast."
Each day, over 29,000 children die from preventable diseases such as malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections, according to World Vision. In developing countries, one child in 10 dies before their fifth birthday, compared to one in 165 within the United States, World Vision says.
As participants fast, they will be participating in volunteer community service projects and various educational activities with global hunger as a topic. North Avenue Baptist expects about 30 participants who will be doing cleanup around their neighborhood and going door-to-door on a food drive. They will donate the food to the Mark's House, a local emergency shelter.
Trinity Church anticipates about 30 participants and First Presbyterian anticipates about 10 volunteers, who will be doing some handyman projects to the church's recreation room.
Many volunteers will attend a benefit concert tonight at Trinity Church with all proceeds going to World Vision and earmarked for tsunami victims. The concert will feature four rock bands, ranging from emo to hardcore, who are playing for free. The lineup includes Sparrow's Gate, Threes and Nines, Farewell and Blesk.
The concert costs $4 and is at 7 p.m. at Trinity Church auditorium, 500 East North Ave.
World Vision began the 30 Hour Famine program in 1992. Last year 500,000 participants in the U.S. raised $11.5 million.
Currently, World Vision is responding to a major drought in Kenya that has caused a food shortage for 3.3 million people. They are also the main implementing partner of the World Food program in Darfur and are working in southeast Asia in response the tsunami-wracked infrastructure.
From Norma (NJ) Mennonite Church:
30 Hour Famine - April 29-30
The youth are participating in World Vision's 30 hour famine. They are collecting aluminum cans and pennies to go towards world hunger. April 29-30 they will fast for 30 hours to experience the amount of time that the average person in the world goes without food. Please pray for this eye-opening experience and contribute your cans and pennies.
Cans and pennies can be dropped off in the bin in front of the church.
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