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Leave A Comment, Save A Life: Year 2

February 24, 2006

This is a comment fundraising post:
YOU MAKE A COMMENT AND I WILL DONATE MONEY FOR WORLD HUNGER

My youth group is participating in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine for the third year in a row. At 9:00 a.m. this morning (Friday) we have stopped eating and will continue to not eat for 30 hours to raise awareness and money to fight world hunger.

The 30 Hour Famine helps to raise money for starving children around the world. $1 a day will feed a child, that is $30 a month and $360 per year. Our students are raising money by asking people to sponsor them with $1 per hour that they go without food for 30 Hours. If each student gets 12 people to sponsor them they will have fed a child for an entire year.

Each year I donate money and we donate money out of our youth group budget to World Vision for the 30 Hour Famine. I've yet to decide how much and so I will let you decide once again.

For every unique comment received on this post I will donate $1 of my own personal money (up to 100 comments) and $2 out of our youth group account (unlimited comments) to World Vision's 30 Hour Famine. As a blogger you have the opportunity to help raise money for world hunger by simply leaving a comment and by spreading the word to get others to comment.

This offer will only be open from 9:00 a.m. on Friday to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday during the 30 hours that we will be fasting. This is your opportunity to raise money and it doesn't cost you anything! However, if you do wish to help sponsor our youth group you can:

A.) Send a check or money order made out to World Vision to Temple Baptist Church, 444 Beeman St., Sullivan, MO 63080.

B.) You can also donate money through my PayPal account by clicking the link below. 100% of your donation goes to World Vision for the 30 Hour Famine.

C.) You can also pledge to donate money per comment left at avoiding evil. Once the time limit is over then you can send your pledged amount to the church with checks made out to World Vision or you can use the Pay-Pal link above.

D.) You can support us by praying for our group and leaving your comments below.

E.) Go visit Christopher and leave a comment on his blog as well since he is doing this too! whatintarnation.net

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Unique comment: This means that the only comments counted towards the goal are new, individual comments from different people. If the same person comments twice then only one comment will count.

Multiple comments from the same e-mail address or IP address will not count towards the goal.

Trackbacks do not count either!

Spam does not count.

P. S. Keep in mind I have to approve the comments and i will be in the middle of doing the Famine, so it may take me awhile to get the comments approved and up. If you post a comment, rest assured that it is there and I just need to approve it. Thanks.

Comments

Posted by: Christopher
February 24, 2006 11:34 AM

I am beginning to think that people aren't reading my blog anymore. I have the same deal (minus the $2 of church money) going since 6 pm last night and nary a comment.

If you comment here, be sure to head over to What in Tarnation?!?!? and leave a comment there!

Posted by: Kendall
February 24, 2006 11:53 AM

Can I post a comment? A poem from me to you: Today is the famine, we are starving, little children to feed,
I am hungry, I am famished,
it is food that I need.

Posted by: Pressed
February 24, 2006 02:47 PM

Christopher, do you think its your new layout that deters comments?

Posted by: Kelbe
February 24, 2006 03:07 PM

When I was in high school, a group I was in decided to do the Famine and while at it, bake goodies and deliver them to shut-ins and others. Do you see the problem? The smell of baked goodies and sight of cookie dough wound up being pretty irresistable to starved teens.

Posted by: Anna
February 24, 2006 03:13 PM

Hmmm...sounds like the church staff has been cheating a little!

Oh, well. I'm proud of you for your willingness to sacrifice a little to help a lot.

Hot Pockets? I've always hated those. Not the food as much as the name "Hot Pocket." I can't eat anything with the word "pocket" in the title. I just can't.

Posted by: Pressed
February 24, 2006 03:23 PM

Well, after a couple comments got deleted, Anna's comment seems to just be hanging out here in the open. Oops.

Posted by: Christopher
February 24, 2006 03:41 PM

Well you could put a link to my post in your post like I did for you.

Posted by: Pressed
February 24, 2006 03:56 PM

Well, you should blame Safari. Can't just plop an easy link in there cause Safari doesn't allow you to do that. I have to type it all out. *sigh*

Alas... a link has been added in the post.

Posted by: dave
February 25, 2006 03:41 AM

Well, I'm feeling generous

Posted by: amanda
March 28, 2006 09:03 AM

Children are fighting,
no food to eat
no clean water to drink
poor they are
much we can help
can you help?
will you help?
Donate
donate to the 30hr famine!