What I learned from my 30 hour famine..

As my famine has come to an end, I want to send you all a big thank you. For praying for me, for the people in need, for those of you who physically joined me on my famine, and of course to those of you who donated. I can’t express how incredibly much it means to me! And to think – you are heroes to those people facing another day without food! Your support meant the world to me.

Going into the famine I was doing it for 2 reasons. To raise awareness, and to raise money to help end global hunger. What I didn’t expect was how deeply it would change me. I got such a personal glimpse even if it was such a small one, of what so many people feel every day, all over the world. It felt so real. The pain. Yet I knew at the end of my famine that I could eat. I knew there was food in my pantry, and if there wasn’t, I could run over to the store and buy some. For thousands of people, none of those options are a reality. They went to bed hungry last night, and will again tonight. After searching desperately for food, for something to buy food with, or even for somewhere to buy it.
I know this sounds really silly and it’s okay if you laugh, but as I was preparing John’s dinner last night, the smell almost overpowered me. By then I had been without food since the night before and when I handed him his plate of steaming hot mexican, I literally had to fight tears. It smelled so good. And my stomach was growling ferociously. And I felt so tired, so little energy. That’s when it became so real to me.. that thousands of people go through this on a scale hundreds of times worse. I won’t ever really be the same.

I hope this made a difference in your lives, too. Reaching out to our family around the world who so desperately need us. So thank you again.. and the need is always there.

I don’t have a figure of how much I raised. I decided that wasn’t important.. for me to know how much came in. Because that’s not what mattered. What matters is that we looked beyond ourselves and helped change the world, one person at a time. Thank you for being that change.
-bethany

30 HOUR FAMINE

At 6am today I am beginning a famine that will last for the next 30 hours. I will not be eating. And here’s why:

 

22,000 people die every single day from hunger related causes that were 100% preventable.

Over half of those people are kids under the age of 5.

Globally, over 925 million people are hungry. That’s roughly 3 times the entire population of the United States – going to bed hungry every night.

The poor spend most of their money trying not to starve.

Over 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 a day.

There is enough food in the world to feed everyone. The uneven distribution is sickeningly unjust.

 

And that is why I’m going for 30 hours without food. To raise awareness and support to help end global hunger.

 

Here’s where you come in. 

 

Tell your friends! The more people who know about global hunger, the more people fighting to end it. Share hunger facts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, wherever your social lives may be. Share the facts by clicking HERE.

Support my famine. I’m asking for $1 for every hour I go without food. $1 will feed a child in starvation for an entire day! So by the end of my 30 hour famine – $30- you will have given enough to feed that child for an entire month. 

 

I’m going hungry.. so that others don’t have to.

 

Join me in ending global hunger, one child at a time.

 

If you are interested in supporting my famine to end global hunger, you can donate safely and securely to World Vision’s Global Food Crisis Fund by clicking HERE.

We can overcome hunger, with love.

 

God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied. Matthew 5:6 (NLT)