Hour #19

We officially have 11 hours in our famine! The kids just made blankets for the needy & homeless in our community. Earlier, we made school packets to be shipped overseas. Everyone seems to be holding up pretty well. We're getting ready to have more devos and free time.

Approaching hour #15!

We are now creeping upon 15 hours without food in our 30-Hour Famine. HALF WAY THERE!!! The kids are all still sleeping. We'll start to wake them up around 8 AM. Drink some liquids and then have our morning devo. More to come later...

Hour number 6

It's the 6th hour into our 30 hour famine. The kids are holding up pretty good, but one of them just said they are starting to get hungry. It is almost 11 PM and I think it's about time for lights out.

This evening we had a praise and worship service and learned about prayer & fasting. We also watched "Fireproof." We broke the youth group into pairs of 2 (we have 7 participants, so one group has 3). During their free time tomorrow, they have been challenged to develop a skit that will be performed at our 7 PM worship service tomorrow night (Saturday).

I wish more of our youth could have participated, but many of them had to work tonight.

Our plans for tomorrow include commuinty service projects, Bible study, games, and a movie. Hopefully the whole church will come out to our worship service at 7 PM and support the kids. The famine will be over at 11 PM tomorrow. The kids are already looking forward to their pancake break-fast they will be eating tomorrow night.

30 Hours & No food???

Yes, that's right. Thirty hours and no food. The youth at the church are doing the 30-Hour Famine this weekend. It's part of World Vision's goal to irradicate hunger around the world. We'll also be making blankets and various other things for the needy in our community (Mt. Hope, WV). I'll post some pics of our weekend adventure when it's over. Pray that God will show us what it's like to be hungry and not have the priviledge to grab food whenever we want it.

There's Hope!

Hope Outreach, the outreach ministry at my church, has been working very hard to help eliminate hunger. We've devoted the month of February as "Love Your Neighbor Month." Cashing-in on Valentine's Day, we are trying to get people within our community to think about others. Our church doors will be open all day Saturday, February 14, to accept donations of canned food and other non-perishables. This food will then be distributed throughout the next few months to the needy.

Hope Outreach has been our vision of reaching out to help the less fortunate. There are so many people who need a helping hand. We want to be that helping hand. We want to share the burden.

Please pray that we will have the resources to meet the needs of those who ask for our assistance.