30 hour famine video

We have a video posted for a recap of what we did for 30 hour famine.

 

http://sfsukoinonia.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/recap-of-sfsu-koinonias-30-hour-famine/

Erickson Chow

 

from sfsu koinonia

Hey Kevin,

 

We have a funny spoof on Animaniacs Good Idea Bad Idea for 30 hour famine. Not sure if it's worthy to go up on your blog but if you're looking for more material :)

 

http://sfsukoinonia.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/join-sfsu-koinonia-and-gracepoint-for-30-hour-famine-this-weekend/

 

Eileen

Unimix recipe

UNIMIX Recipe

 Unimix is a food mixture that is often provided in emergency feeding centers to extremely malnourished children. Due to their fragile digestive systems, children are given this type of food that they can easily absorb into the body until their strength starts to return. Many groups use this for the Break the Fast meal. The following is based in percentages from the Unimix ingredients:.

 

30% maize (or corn) meal

10% oil

10% milk powder

40% beans (mashed or ground)

10% sugar

Here's my modified recipe:

Cornmeal porridge based off Unimix recipe
Servings: 10-15

Ingredients:

3 cups cornmeal (one container of the Quaker 24oz is about 4 cups)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk powder
4 cups of beans (eg, kidney, pinto, garbanzo. I mixed 4 cans of these, drained.)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil

1. Boil 8 cups of water with 1/2 tsp salt in a 6 quart pot.
2. Stir in milk powder and cornmeal. Lower heat to medium low.
3. Keep stirring (about 3 min) then remove from heat.
4. Stir in sugar.
5. Stir in oil.
6. Stir in beans.


Note if you are making larger amounts: The amount of liquid is not necessarily multiplied by the same number that you multiply the other ingredients. For example, if you multiply everything by 3, to boil 24 cups of water and add 9 cups of cornmeal, then add 1 1/2 cups of oil, it's too much liquid. I recommend that you mix one batch at a time instead of trying to make one huge batch. It will also be easier to mix. Also, *most* people will not be feasting off this after the fast, so don't don't count on people eating more than a half or one cup serving.

 

 

what and where

Praxis
Verdemar Neighborhood Yard Sale in Alameda

ideas to save $30

- pack lunch for just a week

- make coffee at home

- drink water when you're out and about (no soda, juice, smoothies, etc.)

- replace 3 meals of eating out with eating in

 

30 hour famine idea

verdemar neighborhood yard sale

30 hour famine story

Having decided to participate in the 30 hour famine, I knew I needed
to find sponsors...fast. There were only 3 days left, and aside from
myself as a sponsor, I had no one else. I knew that my coworkers from
work would probably sponsor me if I was persistent enough, but I
thought that this event would also make a good excuse to catch up with
some of my high school friends and spread awareness of the world
hunger issue. The first person who I knew I wanted to call was my
friend Isaac. He is one of my closest friends from high school whom I
can always count on to hear me out and support me. I gave him a call
during my lunch break at work and told him about the 30 Hour Famine
and that I was planning on participating in the event that weekend. I
then asked if he would like to support me by sponsoring me with a
donation. He said that he would be glad to donate, as he himself, had
been a participant of the 30 Hour Famine in the past with his own
church back at home. Sweet! I was excited to hear that my friend was
familiar with the program and that he would be willing to help out.
"How much do you think you will donate?" I asked. He said he wasn't
set on the amount yet, but he would paypal me an amount that night.

Next day, I check my paypal account at work. Nothing. The following
day, I check again. Nothing. "I should give him a call." I thought
to myself, as Isaac was often forgetful. I called him up again during
my lunch break and the story he told me just totally rocked my world.
Isaac told me he had been really struggling over the issue of money
and worldly spending recently. He said it started a couple weeks ago
when he started taking up small jobs and saving up money to buy a
XBox360. Right when he had saved up enough, another friend called him
and told him to wait another week because he had heard news that the
game system was going to drop its price. Isaac thus decided to hold
off a week. The following week, he attended a retreat with his church
and was hit hard by a message regarding stewardship of one's resources
for the kingdom of God. Isaac knew that the game system he was
planning on buying was purely for his own pleasure and saw it in
conflict with the message. He started praying over this issue
intensely that week, asking God what he should do. It just so
happened that that week, I had called him regarding the 30 Hour
Famine.

After hearing the story, I was just struck by how everything played
out. God was obviously at work here - it couldn't have all just been
mere coincidence! I told Isaac that he should pay attention to the
promptings in his heart from God and donate however much he is
convicted to donate. He told me he'd pray over this issue some more
and get me a response by that night. That night I check my paypal
account and saw that Isaac had deposited $290 into my account. I was
totally awestruck! He had given up all the money he had been saving
up for the XBox360! I couldn't believe it. The next day I called up
Isaac again to talk to him over what he had done and whether this was
what he wanted to do, and not something I had pressured him into
bitterly doing. Isaac calmly told me that this was what he was
convicted to do, and now, he felt as though a huge burden was lifted
from his shoulders. I was amazed. I spent another half an hour on
the phone with my friend and confirming everything with him. I let
him know how his money would provide for so many of the needy in the
world and how proud I was of him as a friend. He just laughs and says
how thankful he was of this opportunity given to him. After I got off
the phone with him, I just felt so blessed to see my friend take this
step in trusting God with this issue.

This was just one story out of the countless from the recent 30-Hour
Famine. For me, it has been just so amazing to witness and
participate in a group of like-minded minded people focused on a
mission outside of ourselves.

- Tommy Chiu