30 Hour famine
 
Gracepoint Fellowship Church 30 Hour Famine Summary 425 people participated in 30 hr famine, raising over $70,000 so far, and still more coming! Most of us went to see the “Experience Africa” exhibit put on by World Vision and some of us became sponsors of the children! Because of efforts like the 30 Hour Famine, since 1992 the number of kids who die each day because of hunger, disease, and poverty has dropped from 40,000 to 29,000! In other words…YOU’re making a difference!
Take a look at what our groups did during the famine:
 
A2F1 & Kairos
A2F1 and Kairos combined and came to our church building at North Loop to do various projects for our service activity while we fasted for the 30-hour famine. We had about 40 people helping with tasks ranging from alphabetizing the library books, archiving videos, to constructing and installing a door for the large mezzanine. Afterwards, we did general church cleaning. The work day at North Loop lasted from 10 to 6:30.
 
A2F2
Our group went door-to-door in different neighborhoods around Berkeley.  We prepared some baked goods and cookies in the morning to give as gifts for those who contributed.  We had 5 different groups and visited 5 different neighborhoods.  15 of us participated and we collected over $300.  Nathan wanted to participate in the 30-hour famine and lasted until 3pm.  He even went with us door-to-door.  After that, we went to the YWCA to do some cleaning and ended it with a trip to the AIDS in Africa presentation in Fremont.  It was moving to walk in the footsteps of one of the children and see what they had to go through because of the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
 
A2F3
26 students and staff from a2f3 started early Saturday morning to hold a 30-Hour Famine Garage sale at Lincoln Middle School! This proved to be an ideal location as in a little over 7 hours, we raised over $1555! Many thanks to those who donated their items to support World Vision and the children they help to feed!
 
CSUEB:
We made 1300 child figures, cutting out each piece individually to put in the Sunday bulletin to bring awareness to our congregation of the number of children that die from hunger each hour.  We also made a hunger facts poster to promote awareness.  Then on Sunday morning, we broke fast together by preparing and eating unimix-the mixture that UNICEF feeds malnourished children.
 
Element:
During our 30 Hour Famine weekend, Element arrived at the San Francisco Food Bank at 8:45am.  Fifty-six Element students and teachers were split into two groups during our shift.  One group washed and labeled 1,600 donated canned goods and the other group was lucky enough to wear hair nets, while measuring, packaging and labeling 1,530 pounds of split pinto beans.
 
ISM:
During our small group bible studies, we did a full presentation on world hunger with the World Vision hunger Powerpoint, as well as put together some hunger trivia facts to get a feel for just how bad the numbers were.  In the Alpha group, one brother invited the students to join them in fasting or just to contribute.  Some of us also raised money from our non-Christian students-and found that many of them were actually quite willing to contribute to the 30 Hour Famine.  They understood that we were doing a good thing and trying to put into practice our faith as a church.  In a lot of ways, we ended up building credibility with our students by doing so.
 
Koinonia:
  1. Annie/Joe Song’s group
  2. Meals on wheels - joined Jeannie’s Praxis group: visited 40 homes and delivered 40 meals
  3. Telegraph - Sold self-made keychains on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley
  4. Also sold plate with the hunger fact, raising $200
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  6. Helen/Ben Park’s group
  7. St. Vincent de Paul - prepared the food, served 700 meals, cleaned, and mingled with people who came
  8. - 700 meals served at St. Vincent de Paul for lunch
  9. - 350 PEOPLE served
  10. - 50 lbs. of onions peeled, cut, and sliced
  11. - ~700 fillets of salmon served for lunch
  12. - 150 lbs. of salad tossed
  13. Berkeley Bowl - Solicited for donations for World Vision in front of Berkeley Bowl
  14. - 70 beaded key chains hand-made to give away to donors and raised $230
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  16. Jenny/Kevan Ho’s group
  17. Oakland Children’s Hospital - made 35 activity bags and cards for the children
  18. Berkeley Campus:
  19. - Flyered and tabled on campus to find sponsors
  20. - Received donations from Safeway (bottles of water & vitamin water) which were used for thank you gifts while flyering
  21. Oakland City Center - Solicited at Oakland City Center (this was kind-of illegal). Maurice was asked to leave after making $3.
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  23. Ellen/John, Dave’s group
  24. Clinton Village Convalescent Home - served lunch and mingled with 70-80 residents
  25. Safeway - Joined Jeannie praxis group at BayFarm Safeway to bring awareness and solicited donations by making selling homemade baked goods. They raised approximately $400.
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  27. Emily/Ray’s group
  28. St. John’s Presbyterian Church -
  29. - Students helped organizing the allocation of food
  30. - Distributed food to low-income Asian elderly, serving more than 200 people
  31. - Mandarin-speaking students translated important announcements to the Asian elderly
  32. - Distributed 370 juices
  33. Union Landing Mall - Solicited and brought awareness to people in Union Landing (mall), raising $30
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  35. Yumi/Jin & Mike/Joanna’s group
  36. Clinton Village Convalescent Home - served dinner and mingled with 70-80 residents
  37. Tabled outside Shoreline shopping center - had a silhouette of a child. Whenever someone donated money, they put their name on the silhouette of the child.
  38. Fremont - Door-to-door to 50 homes, giving out bookmarks and cookies.
 
Praxis 1
We joined with Koinonia HG 1 and 26 of us made 35 activity bags to donate to Oakland Chiildren's hospital.  These bags are for the kids who are hospitalized.  Also, we made pop-ups cards to encourage the children. 
 
Praxis 2
Alameda Meals on Wheels (with joe/annie song's home group) - 25 people participated
- delivered ~30 meals
- 5 routes delivering meals to people who can't otherwise provide for their own meals in alameda
- joe/annie's group baked cookies and wrote cards to deliver with the 
meal, we were able to visit with a few of the residents

Safeway
- spent about 4 hours in front of Bayfarm Safeway soliciting donations 
via baked goods (we baked and then gave the treats to those who 
donated money), received over $400 in donations
 
SF Campus
SF Campus volunteered at the San Francisco Food Bank. 45 members volunteered for the afternoon shift: we measured and weighed, bagged, air-tight sealed, packed, and boxed split-pinto beans - we packaged about 2,000 pounds or 144 boxes worth of split-pinto beans in about 2 hours.  We worked on 5 separate "assembly lines" with jobs like "bean counters" who need to get the exact weight in each bag, to "boxers" who assembled boxes for hours.