this past weekend. our youth group hosted 30 hr famine. this is a very popular event that many youth group have. instead of giving this year to world vision and really never able to see a change from it, i decided to pick a local food bank that the youth group has helped out a couple of times in the last few months. this food pantry although located in a small town of maybe 1500 people serves an average of 50 families per month.
so we wanted to do something that would affect our community as a large.
on friday we had a benefit concert where admission was $2 or a canned good. through that we raise about $200 and received approximately 200 canned goods. it was an amazing concert and we had a lot of fun doing it. on top of the concert teens raised support which amounted to another $300 give or take a few dollars. i can not wait to deliver all of this to sandy creek food pantry. so not only did we raise money for a good cause we had a great outreach to teens. we had about 130 people at the concert. i gave a short talk on how we need to help save lives not just temporarily by giving money and food but how we need to alsso think about saving lives eternally. i know a lot of seeds were planted so please pray for this.
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