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Ready to eat! — Youths from Emmaus Lutheran Church in Orange City and Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in DeLand get ready to serve a spaghetti dinner to more than 130 people, before ending their own 30-hour fast. Pictured are Emmaus Youth Director Chris Beehner and Faith Lutheran Pastor Art Wuertz, with Logan Beehner, Jarrod Smith, Maggie Blum, Maddison Cyr, Julia Oaks, Jennifer Cyr, Jessica Butler-Lore, Tiernam Sutton, Jake Kaufman, Connor McMullen, Brayden Dailey, Madeline Muth, Brianna Kaufman and Christine McMullen.
posted Mar 9, 2013 - 11:33:06pm
Youth from Emmaus Lutheran Church in Orange City and Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in DeLand stopped eating at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, and went without food through the night and all day Saturday, as part of a campaign led by World Vision to raise awareness about hunger
World Vision is an international nonprofit organization devoted to tackling the causes of poverty and injustice around the globe. More than 300,000 people a year take part in World Vision’s 30-hour famine events. The DeLand and Orange City youths spent the night together Friday at Faith Lutheran, then, on Saturday, Feb. 23, they cooked and served a spaghetti dinner at Emmaus Lutheran, before sitting down to their own meal for the first time in 30 hours.
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The Imperial USA just wasted 3 TRILLION dollars on 2 unecessay wars in Iraq and Laughanistan.
That could have bought enough food to stuff the guts of the the needy. But then again they would just get healthy enough to reproduce more hungry mouths
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