Calling all families! This week we are challenging families to do some things to increase their awareness of the issues of hunger. One is the subsistence diet. Take a day or a meal each day, or perhaps the rest of the week through Friday to live off of some meager meal. We are doing rice and beans in the Campbell household. Another great opportunity we have to pay attention to the problem of hunger and do something with it is to come to SolidRockz  this week-- our new family program at 9:00 on Sundays! We will be 60 making bag lunches for the guests at the  Community Day Center in Waltham. WE need your help with this!!! We are looking for the for supply donations for this. We need: sliced ham, cheese, bread, chips and apples. Are you able to come and contribute? Let Kevin know at kcampbell@newtonpres.org.

When Hunger Comes Home 2013

Hi all! We're embarking once again on our church-wide challenge to gain greater understanding of hunger in the world and to think about how God may be calling us to respond to this global epidemic. Our youth will be doing the 30 Hour Famine Sat. 9/28-Sun. 9/29 (noon on Sat. through 6pm on Sun.) and we are coming alongside them as a church. We're encouraging folks to eat a subsistence diet from Mon. 9/23 - Fri. 9/27 and to join them in the 30 hour fast for the weekend.

Check back here this week for more information about hunger in the world and details about things that our youth will be doing to raise awareness and money to help those in need around the world.

The 30 Hour Famine is sponsored by World Vision and all money will be given to them to help children in need. Each dollar raised can help feed and care for a child for a day. Click here to donate to our youth doing the famine.

30 Hour Famine: student update

hello, my name is Jaylee! I am participating in the 30 hour famine. We have just come back from the service projects and all of us are tired and hungry! Being hungry and working was really hard. It really made me think how lucky I am to have enough food. We have been doing activities to better understand the situation around the world and I think that we are all learning a lot! Wish us luck and pray for us as we continue to suffer through hunger!

30 hr famine going on now!

Lets remember our students as they participate in the 30 hr famine today into tomorrow!
I just had the opportunity to have a few over for some service work and man I will tell you they worked hard and without a single complaint  (minus: "I hate fall because I'm OCD and you can never get all the leaves") HA! I Agree... Anyways... they raked about 8 bags of leaves and pine needles...washed an old playhouse and painted it new, and cleaned the garden out ....it was hard work...and they did it with a smile and a great attitude. A great example of servanthood!

hunger in america

here are a few statistics about hunger right here at home


Hunger in America 2010 is the largest study of domestic hunger, providing comprehensive and statistically-valid data on our emergency food distribution system and the people Feeding America serves. Hunger in America 2010 is extremely detailed, drawing on data from more than 61,000 interviews with clients and surveys of 37,000 feeding agencies.
The report shows that hunger is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States, and our network is expanding its reach in response:

• Feeding America is annually providing food to 37 million Americans, including 14 million children. This is an increase of 46 percent over 2006, when we were feeding 25 million Americans, including 9 million children, each year.
• That means one in eight Americans now rely on Feeding America for food and groceries.
• Feeding America's nationwide network of food banks is feeding 1 million more Americans each week than we did in 2006.
• Thirty-six percent of the households we serve have at least one person working.
• More than one-third of client households report having to choose between food and other basic necessities, such as rent, utilities and medical care.
• The number of children the Feeding America network serves has increased by 50 percent since 2006. 

Source: http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/hunger-study-2010.aspx

Bugs in our rice: I have a choice

So a few minutes ago I turned on my nice stove to cook our rice for dinner tonight. I opened a new bag of rice just to find little creepy crawlies in it! Of course I have other rice stocked and am ok. And of course the thought would never occur to me to serve this bug infested rice to my family. But I did stop to think of people who would have no other choice. I thought of the movie we posted yesterday of the dad getting food for his children out of a trash can. And I realized yet again how VERY blessed we are. What seems a "no way" for me is a way of life for so many.

Share this video

Hey all,

This is a powerful, short video you should watch. You could also consider posting it on your Facebook page to help raise awareness this week about world hunger.

The reality of world hunger can be shocking and honestly, hard to believe because we are so insulated from it. But the more we expose ourselves to the reality of it and the more we share that reality with others, the greater the call to action becomes for us and those around us.

We can make a difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG-i3KslA7w&feature=relmfu