30 Hour Famine!

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:41 pm

It's a World Vision program that youth groups all over the country are participating in! Our youth group is one of many that is doing this. Just wondering if anyone else is doing it this year and if so, here's the link to the website! Get signed up and wake up that message board!

Did you know that $1 will feed a child for an entire day! $30 for a month, $365 for a year! Sponser a kid! Find someone who is doing the famine and sponser them! Mail ME money if you want to. I promise I won't keep it.

http://www.30hourfamine.org/?lid=topnav ... pos=topnav

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Danadelfos · Post by **Danadelfos** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:45 pm

Wow that is pretty neat. It's neat to see how they are helping children for so little! $\:D/$

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:18 pm

The church I do Bible Bowl with does it. $\:D/$

-Cowboy

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:22 pm

I wanted to do it at this one church I went to but I was too new and didn't have the details, etc.

Post by **Catspaw** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:09 pm

I did this once in junior high - it is a good program, but unfortunately, World Vision has fairly high administrative costs.

I think there are some groups that have a larger percentage of the funds that actually go to the cause they're promoting, though the name of the one that I used to know about escapes me at the moment.

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:55 pm

Catspaw wrote:I did this once in junior high - it is a good program, but unfortunately, World Vision has fairly high administrative costs.

What does that mean?

Kenric · Post by **Kenric** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:55 pm

Jennifer Doyle wrote:
Catspaw wrote:I did this once in junior high - it is a good program, but unfortunately, World Vision has fairly high administrative costs.
What does that mean?

The official explanation:
Costs incurred for a common or joint purpose that benefits more than one cost objective, supports the general management and administration of a First 5 commission, and/or those costs not readily assignable to a specifically benefited cost objective.

My translation:
Money put towards one purpose that other costs take. It can support the people running the programs and such.
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Anyways, my high school's Bible Club might do it, but it's not for sure..

Post by **Catspaw** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:40 pm

Jennifer Doyle wrote:
Catspaw wrote:I did this once in junior high - it is a good program, but unfortunately, World Vision has fairly high administrative costs.
What does that mean?

Kind of what Kenric said! $\:D/$ It means that they have costs that mean that not all of their funds rasied go directly to the causes that they advertise. Of course, some costs of this nature are necessary - paperwork, personnel, advertising etc. Some companies just manage to keep those numbers a bit lower than World Vision does/used to. The number that I heard a few years ago was 20% in administrative costs, though I don't know what it is at the moment.

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:10 pm

Catspaw wrote:
Jennifer Doyle wrote:
Catspaw wrote:I did this once in junior high - it is a good program, but unfortunately, World Vision has fairly high administrative costs.
What does that mean?
Kind of what Kenric said! $\:D/$ It means that they have costs that mean that not all of their funds rasied go directly to the causes that they advertise. Of course, some costs of this nature are necessary - paperwork, personnel, advertising etc. Some companies just manage to keep those numbers a bit lower than World Vision does/used to. The number that I heard a few years ago was 20% in administrative costs, though I don't know what it is at the moment.

Oh ok. Thanks for the clarification. Yes, not 100% of the money goes to the children, but it would be really impossible to run the place if that was the case, I honestly believe. 13% of the donations to World Vision go toward admin costs, etc. Meaning 87% goes to the kids.

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After the famine:

There are two dates that teens nationally and internationally participate in the famine, one of them was last Friday-Saturday! It was pretty awesome!

Our youth pastor was one of the leaders of the whole thing in Seattle this year and his goal was to make it much more about prayer instead of just doing things to keep our minds off of it.

So we stopped eating Friday morning @ 6:00 and didn't eat again until 12:00 on Saturday. We did community service projects OR a group of us went and "pan handled" with cardboard signs about Children dying and how little money it took to save people, etc.

Then Saturday morning, the person who'd raised the most money won an IPod Nano!! [That was a total surprise, but really cool.] [I earned $700 for World Vision/people so I got it!]

And our 4-5 youth groups earned over $5,000 total!! How amazing is that?!

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:47 pm

You won an Ipod Nano? *wishes her youth group had done 30 hour famine* Oh, well, there's always next year!

(I really wanted to do it, before I knew you could win an Ipod.

I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression of me.)

DrBlackgaard · Post by **DrBlackgaard** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:37 pm

hehe, I go without eating for 30 hours now and then anyway.

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:19 am

I want an Ipod Nano.

One of my friends just recently did the 30 hour famine. She said she went to a friend's house during and they eat in front of her.

-Cowboy

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:44 am

I was at a friends house last night and his cousin 9and my friend) is doing it.

EUCC · Post by **EUCC** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:09 pm

my former church did it...gotta be careful though. my sister had issues with anorexia at the time, and it just triggered her to go without for 30 hours. so caution: please dont do it if you have an eating disorder.

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:55 pm

Rachael wrote:
(I really wanted to do it, before I knew you could win an Ipod. I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression of me.)

I felt kind of weird about accepting it. I mean, the $$ for it could have fed a child for 2/3 of a year.

It might have been donated though. I know all of the official World Vision [shirts and stuff] prizes are donated.

the_newfie_haystack · Post by **the_newfie_haystack** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:51 pm

Our youth group is going to do the famine sometime this April. I think I might participate.

Haystack

SivartM · Post by **SivartM** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:02 pm

I've participated in that several times! Once our group raised about $4000, I believe!

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:32 am

SivartM wrote:I've participated in that several times! Once our group raised about $4000, I believe!

WOWZA! Awesomeness!

the_newfie_haystack wrote:Our youth group is going to do the famine sometime this April. I think I might participate.

Haystack

I hope you do, it's a really great experience. You help others and grow a bit yourself. At least I do everytime I've done it.

SivartM · Post by **SivartM** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:24 am

Jennifer Doyle wrote:
SivartM wrote:I've participated in that several times! Once our group raised about $4000, I believe!
WOWZA! Awesomeness!

Yeah, it was pretty cool! Once when we made shelters out of cardboard boxes to sleep in outside (usually it's raining so we sleep inside) they had the police come pretend to arrest us.

the_newfie_haystack · Post by **the_newfie_haystack** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:56 pm

Jennifer Doyle wrote:
SivartM wrote:I've participated in that several times! Once our group raised about $4000, I believe!
WOWZA! Awesomeness!

the_newfie_haystack wrote:Our youth group is going to do the famine sometime this April. I think I might participate.

Haystack
I hope you do, it's a really great experience. You help others and grow a bit yourself. At least I do everytime I've done it.

Good news. I'm doing it! However, I'm doing it on Mar.31 to Apr.1. I'm staying overnight at my church with my youth group. I'm concerned about two things.
1: How I'm going to survive 30 hours without food.
2: Whether I'm going to get pranked. (After all, April 1 is April Fools Day.)

Haystack