The youth group will be having the 30 Hour Famine this year on April 29 - 30, 2011.
For those of you who don’t know, the 30 Hour Famine is an event backed by World Vision, which is designed to aid students in raising awareness to world hunger. World Vision is an international Christian ministry that aids millions of people and distributes food to people in need.
Every day, hunger kills nearly 8,000 kids under age 5. That’s one child every 10 seconds. And every night, more than a billion people go to bed hungry. That’s 1 in 6 people on the planet. The theme for this year is: love hungry.
For those of you who don't know how the famine works, what we will be doing is going for 30 hours without food to raise money to help kids in need. $30 can help provide food for a hungry child for a whole month, and so the suggested donation is $30.
The youth group talked about the event, set fundraising goals, and all received envelopes for collecting donations. For the next few weeks leading up to the famine, the youth participating are going to be telling friends/family and other people that they are involved in the 30 Hour Famine and asking for donations to help hungry people around the world.
Starting at 12:30 pm on Friday, April 29th we will begin the actual famine, and end on Saturday at 6:30 pm. On the 29th, starting at 6:00 pm, we will meet at the church and stay overnight there. We will be having games, activities, doing a service project, and learning more about world hunger. On the 30th we will break our fast with a meal.
Also, I wanted to let you know that going without food for 30 hours, although it’s uncomfortable, is not dangerous, and we will be having regular water/juice breaks. If you have questions, there’s a lot of information on the 30 Hr. Famine website, or you can email me and I’ll do my best to get back to you.
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