Heal the World

Thank you sooo much for all the donations for the 30 hour famine!
I was able to raise $180! With that money World Vision will be able to take care of a child for half a year :)

The 30 hour famine was a great experience and I will definitely do something like that again in the future! I started fasting right after my lunch period in school on Friday at 12pm. When I came home everybody had Animal Crackers for snack (I love those!) and Micah said 'Haha, you can't have any!'... not nice :) But really it wasn't that hard not to eat - I thought it would be harder since I'm snacking all the time.

Mitch, Eden, Micah and I went to TCF to go through some bank-stuff which took a veeery long time because it was very complicated, but it was also very entertaining :D After that we went to a game store to get a couple CDs/DVDs buffered and after that we went to Little Caesers to get pizza for the others for supper - that was fun. Mitch called in before we got there so that they would be ready when we come and he ordered "3 pepperoni ... and 1 sausage please". When he said 'sausage' I said "Yes... nooooo" because I love sausage pizza but then I realized that I won't be able to have any :(

At 8pm I went to Church then where I spent the rest of my fasting time together with all the others (I think there were about 25 of us.. maybe more).We started of by playing a couple games boys vs. girls - we won! :) And then at around 9.30 Josh talked to us, showed us a very cool video. In that video kids who don't live as good as we do asked questions about our life here in America - "Do you really eat 3 times a day", etc. It also included information about the difference of our countries - "A woman in Africa walks about 6 miles a day to get water, that's how much an American walks in A MONTH!" It really opened my eyes about what's going on in the world and on top of that we then watched End of the Spear.

The next day morning we woke up at 8.45 and started at 9.30. We did three service projects throughout the day - hand out bag of lunch to people who otherwise won't have a meal -, collect caned food donations and we cleaned up a park :)
Throughout the whole time i didn't really struggle with hunger, but more with a lack of energy and I was cold all the time except when I was in my sleeping bag... then I felt super hot. I think I had a little short cold or something because I also had trouble breathing (it felt like somebody was sitting on my chest when I tried to breath in). Usually my temperature is around 96°F when I take it with the thermometer we have but on Saturday when I came home it was 98°F... I don't know doesn't really matter I guess :)

We broke out fast together at (Surprise...after 30 hours) 6pm on Saturday with rice and something like taco meat and ketchup. I think I never enjoyed a meal like that before - you really start appreciating the food you have the more you learn about all the hunger in the world!

Anyway it was a great experience and thanks again for the donations!

Heal the world 

Earth Song

So yesterday at Youth Group we got some information about the 30 hours famine that is going on this weekend at Calvary.

We start fasting at 12pm on Friday (right after my lunch period in school) and don't eat for 30 hours. That way we will see what it's like to hunger for such a long time like many people have to.

Here are some facts about hunger in this world:
 - Hunger kills another child every 10 seconds!

       So that are 8000 kids under the age of 5 that die because of hunger-related causes (starvation,      illness due to malnutrition, ...

 - More than 1 billion people go hungry every day!

One in six people on earth will go to bed hungry tonight . The odds are worse for kids living in poor countries, they have a one in three chance of going hungry!

For me personally I knew that this is an issue but I didn't know that there are SO MANY people who don't have anything to eat!

So with the 30 hour famine we also want to raise money for the organization World Vision so that kids can get food.

$30 would help to get food for a child for ONE MONTH - so that is $360 to help feed and care for a child for a year! I think that is pretty amazing and when we compare that on how much money we spend each month for ourselves not a lot!

When I thought about how I could get as many donations as possible I had the idea that a blog post about it would be so helpful because that way I can inform a lot of people at the same time about it.

So if you would like to donate some money for this please tell me! I need the money by Friday because that's when I will give it to my Youth Group leader. 

You can donate any amount of money you want and checks should be made payable to World Vision - I would actually prefer checks because I would have to write out a check to hand the money in anyway :)

Now that I think about it, it would be sooooo great if people from Germany would donate some money too!

1. Just divide however much dollars you want to donate by 1.35 (that's about the currency rate) to get the Euro value for it. 

2. Then you can ask my mom about my account information (didn't ask you yet but I hope that's okay mom?! ^^) or you could also email me and I will send the information to you... I just kind of forgot what you need for that so it would be great if you could tell me (I know it's the name, the account number, the bank name and the bank identification code, anything else?!)

3. Transfer the money on my account

4. Please send me an email (you can find my email address on Facebook, in my profile here on my blog or you could text/ask me about it!) and tell me how much money you would like to donate so that I can keep track of that :)

Any questions please (!) ask me or you could also look it up on the website I named above (World Vision or 30 hour Famine).

If you don't want to or you can't donate money then please pray for me and other people who participate in this that everything will work out and that we - together - can raise money to prevent kids from dying because they don't get enough food!

It would be sooo great if I could get enough money that would support a child for a year - I think that would be amazing!

Thank you so much already :)

Earth Song