hungry?

This weekend teens from our church participated in a 30 hour famine event, where they fasted for 30 hours and spend the last 15 of those hours together. We hung out, cooked a meal for a local rescue mission, talked about poverty, memorized a bible verse, had times of teaching, prayer, and singing, then broke our fast with pancakes and sausages Sunday morning before church. The time of bible study and prayer Saturday evening was really neat as God met us. The picture to the right is a white board covered with 14,000 dots. The teens were wondering why we did this, and then found out as I played a clip about global hunger from World Vision. 14,000 children die every day from hunger and this visual representation helped connect the somewhat abstract statistic to reality. I'm so glad that we did this event and look forward to fasting together in the future.

Whenever one of the teens was feeling hungry, they were supposed to say so out loud and the rest of us would respond with Jesus' words from Matthew 4 "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." This was a neat way to connect their present experience of hunger to the bigger reality that we are completely dependant upon God.