It's the beginning of a New Year which means that the youth ministry here at SOTH is beginning to raise awareness and funds for World Vision through their 30 Hour Famine Program. If you're not familiar with the program or its accompanying statistics, I want to implore you to visit the following link and allow your eyes to be opened to one of (if not THE) greatest problems of our modern world:
World hunger is a plague whose fingers are reaching further and further every day; whose grasp proves too great for a staggering amount of people whose lives are taken each day due to its effects.
We partner with World Vision every year to do the best we can to alleviate hunger around the world - even in our country's own back yards.
A $1 donation feeds a child for a day. We spend four to six times that amount on coffee from Starbucks - the effects of which may last an hour or so.
Each kid in our youth program is equipped to take your donations and even provide you with a tax deductible receipt. I think it would be AMAZING if the youth werent the only people within our church asking for donations, too! Adults: If you can and are interested, please ask me (Mike) for a funds packet and I would love to provide that to you. We have a goal set this year of raising $8000. That's enough money to feed 22 kids for a whole year.
Wont you join us in this effort to save lives and raise awareness?
If you ask Jack, it's not a matter of IF...its a matter of HOW MUCH:
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