Going Hungry For a Good Cause

I like food. I like food a lot! There has to be something pretty significant happening to convince me to miss a meal. This past weekend, however, I willingly gave up food for 30 hours with a group of 40 plus students in Debolt, Alberta. The students were participating in the World Vision 30 hour famine. The goal is to get people to sponsor you to go without food for 30 hours. The money that is raised goes to help kids who don't have access to clean water and food in third world countries. Most students are idealists. They want to make a difference in the world and the students of Debolt did so by raising a few thousand dollars.

Not only were they making a difference in the world, but God was at work making a difference in their hearts. My role in the weekend was to speak to the hungry students Friday and Saturday and then speaking in church on Sunday.

A number of students indicated that God had been speaking to them which is always cool. At the end of the event one young man came to me and said "I have been wanting to speak with you all weekend. After the first session I wanted to tell you it had really impacted me. Then I wanted to tell you the same thing after the second session. Then I felt the same after the third session. This is just what I needed this weekend."

Sunday during the communion time a number of students publicly indicated that they were going to follow Jesus no matter what. A huge number of the parents publicly released their students to fully follow God's call on their lives.

Not only did some students help fill some hungry bellies in the third world, but God helped fill some students' hungry hearts!