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God’s Heart for the Hungry
Today we’re going to talk more about our 30 Hour Famine event that we have coming up next week.
This event is dear to my heart.
We have a love/hate relationship.
I’ve participated in 30 Hour Famine about 8 times now.
It’s one of those events that I look forward to because of the impact it has on the students doing it, and it helps kids all around the world get a second chance at life.
The hate part of the relationship is the hunger.
It’s difficult to go 30 hours without food.
The first 15 hours I only think about the food that I cannot have.
“Man, I wish I had a hamburger right now.”
Our minds are powerful and will tempt you to give up and eat something.
After the Famine, I always feel a great since of accomplishment.
It’s almost like winning a championship game!
Although, I’ve never won a championship game.
But if I had, I’m sure this is what it would feel like.
Being able to deny myself food for 30 hours to help kids across the world is an unbelievable feeling.
It puts me in their place for a moment, catching a glimpse of what they go through everyday.
Bringing awareness to their situation and doing something about it at the same time, is so awesome.
I pray that each one of you will participate in the 30 Hour Famine and help raise money to feed and care for kids all around the world that regularly go with out food for more then 30 hours at a time.
Not because they choose to like we are doing, but because that’s their reality.
I’ll go into more of the details about the weekend famine in a little bit.
But first, answer me this.
Raise you hand if you have participated in 30 Hour Famine before.
Raise you hand if you’ve heard of 30 Hour Famine.
Let’s jump into some statistics to get a feel for what we’re up against.
Roughly 53% of the world lives on less then $3 a day.
That’s half of the world population.
$3 a day is $90 a month.
That equals $1,080 a year.
Many times, I’ve heard people saying things like they’re poor or broke.
I’m one of those people.
My kids ask for something, I reply, “sorry, we don’t have the money.”
And, most of the time I’m telling the truth.
We actually don’t have any money in our checking account.
But does that mean we’re poor?
Well, I looked up the United States 2018 Federal Poverty Level and this is what I found.
This is shocking.
My family size is 5, so our poverty line is $29,420 a year, or $2,452 a month, or $14.14 an hour for a 40 a week, full time job.
This is the poverty line for the United States.
If you fall below this amount of income, congratulations, you’re officially poor.
Here is something interesting, above the poverty line chart there is a note.
*It's important to recognize that the federal poverty level is well below what it actually takes for a family to meet basic needs.
Well below what it actually takes for a family to meet basic needs.
Well below.
What does that mean?
It means we have a recognized poverty level that is here.
But for a family to meet basic needs, ones income level must be here.
So, if you are right at the recognized poverty level, you’re going to have a hard time meeting basic needs.
But poor is relative.
It’s relative to where you live.
Poor is relative to what you have or what you have access to.
Let me put it in perspective this way.
When the bible talks about, “the poor and needy.”
It’s not referring to you.
You are not in that category.
You’re not.
When the bible talks about the “rich.”
Add your name to the line.
That’s you.
That’s me.
We are the rich.
We have what we need for basic survival.
So, when my kids ask for something and I say that we don’t have the money in the bank, I’m not lying.
But if I say I’m poor, well, that’s not the truth either.
We don’t have money in the bank because we’ve used it on other things.
We’ve used it on things like food, clothing, gas, car insurance, entertainment, cellphones, a watch, the list goes on.
Think about it.
This phone cost just under the same amount that half of the world population makes in a year.
This cost 1 year’s wages for half the population of the world.
And we have 4 of them in our family.
That blows my mind.
Compared to other people in the United States, we would be considered poor.
Compared to the entire world, we’re rich.
Crazy rich and I’m not even Asian.
There is a movie the I grew up watching.
I’ve seen it many, many times.
I have most of the lines memorized.
It’s about 2 guys, Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunn, who take a roadtrip to Aspen, Colorado.
When they arrive, they’re out of money and have to sleep outside.
The sceen picks up with the two of them standing by a fire trying to get warm.
What happens next is a perfect illustration of what we’re talking about.
See if you can make the connection.
Play the video clip.
28 people.
My family makes enough money each year to pay 28 people an annual salary.
$1,000,000 will pay an annual salary for 926 people.
What I’m getting at isn’t that you and I don’t have enough money to help the poor and powerless.
The point is, we’d rather spend our excess money on other things, like ourselves.
Notice I used the words we and our.
We’re all in this boat together.
So, what does all of this mean?
Well, 2.6 million babies across the globe die within their first month of life.
Every five seconds a child under 5 dies, half are from hunger-related causes.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, one baby.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, another baby.
844 million people worldwide don’t have access to clean water, which can lead to death.
$480 will help feed and care for a child for 1 year!
We have the ability to help save children and give them a chance at life.
If we are christian, I think we have an obligation to help save children and give them a chance at life.
Orphans and widows refer to the impoverished people in a society.
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