THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you to all who supported us in our journey to Love Hungry! We reached our goal and with 23 students and 8 leaders were able to raise $10,762 and that number is still climbing. The Lord is so good! I can't adequately express my appreciation for each of you who supported us and prayed us through this weekend.
We started fasting after lunch on Friday and all met at the church at 6pm to finish out the rest of the famine together. We were able to make 30 hygiene kits and send lots of extra hygiene supplies to the Global Aid Network warehouse where they will distribute those kits to Haiti and this is also where we spent 3 hours on Saturday working in their distribution center. We spent the rest of Friday night just hanging out, and enjoyed a challenge from Sarah who focused on Philippians 4:12-13... I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. We then finished up our night with Despicable Me and tried to sleep. Which by the way, have you ever tried to sleep on a church pew? Not very comfy, I probably should have just slept on the floor, but apparently that wasn't the cool thing to do as all of the girls were on the pews, so in an attempt to make myself seem as cool as possible and to try to dispel a few of the rumors circulating that I am in fact and old woman trapped in a "Gen Y" body I slept on a pew. Never again.
Saturday morning came quickly and we were blessed by the wonderful Cari who brought us "breakfast"!!! She brought us frozen fruit juice cubes, a wonderful cold punch and an AMAZING hot drink with cranberry and orange juice! That got us going on the right foot, oh and the coffee definitely helped too. We played a couple games of Birdie on a Perch (Jane and Krista were stripped of their reigning title and winning streak, soorrry girls!) Josiah started off our morning with a challenge and then we headed out to the GAIN warehouse and distribution center. Half of the group went off to make salvation bracelets and the other half of our group headed over to unpack and repack shoes. Some of us received a tour of the facility and it was awesome seeing all of the things that are being done right here in our own back yard. Shoes, clothes, wheelchairs, computers, food, seed packets, and many many other things are constantly being sorted and assembled to be sent across the world to places like Haiti, the Ukraine, and Zambia. We got back to the church around 330 and cleaned the downstairs and then had a quick meeting and then it was time for...DIINNNNERRRR!!!
A HUGE thank you again to Sue, Lyn, Sandy and Marcia for preparing a wonderful meal for us to break the fast! Sue made us spaghetti and garlic bread, which if you haven't had Sue's garlic bread, you are missing out my friend! Lyn made her famous salad and I...well I...apparently broke a cardinal rule of the famine. I didn't make Banana Pudding. I thought we could do ice cream instead, boy was I wrong. I thought they were going to burn me at the stake, throw me to the wolves, make me walk the plank..you get the idea, NEVER AGAIN will I not make Banana Pudding for the famine! I'M SORRY!!!
The last thing I have to do is plan a pizza party, as an incentive I told them whoever (leaders included!) raised over $300 I would throw them a pizza party! So, 14 of us are going to be partying it up sometime this month!
We all wrote down thoughts, verses, or something that we were were made aware of during the famine on an index card and we taped them at the back of the church. On one of the cards was written something to the extent of ..."I kept thinking about dinner, and then I thought of all of the kids and people who have no idea when their 6 O'clock will be..." So I will end with this, Philippians 4:12-13 from the message, I feel as though it just sums it all up so perfectly.
Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.
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