January 27th = 91,622 meals!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
FVL Chapel Presentation - Jan. 25th
Principal Paul Hartwig shared a chapel devotion that highlighted our school's efforts to help the starving in Zambia. He started by asking everyone if they were a "Difference Maker." This service project gives us all an opportunity to be a "difference maker" in the lives of people who have so little.
Next, he interviewed about six students who had kept track of their "extra" food expenses over the last week. The range was from about $6 - $30 with the average about $13-$15. Many had stopped at the local Subway or other area restaurants or fast food spots over the past week. With Children Feeding Thousands, $15 equals 100 meals for starving children.
Mr. Hartwig was joined by students who shared short skits about typical scenes in the lives of students and families. Check out the photos of those scenes...
Breakfast at home on the way to school -- I don't have time! Or, I don't like what we have! Or, I'll catch something on my way to school!
Lunch at school -- What extras have you purchased? I'll pay for him! My parents never check my lunch account! I need it -- I'm really hungry!
Hanging out after school -- Snacks, soda, extra meal - How often is food part of our social life?
Next, he interviewed about six students who had kept track of their "extra" food expenses over the last week. The range was from about $6 - $30 with the average about $13-$15. Many had stopped at the local Subway or other area restaurants or fast food spots over the past week. With Children Feeding Thousands, $15 equals 100 meals for starving children.
Mr. Hartwig was joined by students who shared short skits about typical scenes in the lives of students and families. Check out the photos of those scenes...
Lunch at school -- What extras have you purchased? I'll pay for him! My parents never check my lunch account! I need it -- I'm really hungry!
Hanging out after school -- Snacks, soda, extra meal - How often is food part of our social life?
"Africa Scene" -- This scene symbolized the plight of so many African families. The newborn baby in the mother's arms learns the lessons of starvation and malnutrition at an early age. Many never survive infancy.
Your support of the Children Feeding Thousands effort can save lives for real infants and children in Zambia.
Thanks for your help!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
FVL Student Council Thanks!
January 14th = 82,378 meals!
At last night's Red Smith Awards Dinner, the FVL Student Council manned the coat check room and earned about $185 in tips. They decided to put the money toward the Children Feeding Thousands effort. That's over 1200 meals!
Thanks, Student Council!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Special Speaker Lined up for Children Feeding Thousands!
FVL Schools Chairman Phil Punzel has just announced that a special speaker with ties to our missionary work in Zambia has been lined up for our April 22-23 event. The speaker will be Abbie (Gunn) Fischer who grew up in Zambia as the daughter of missionary Jeffrey Gunn. Here are some preliminary thoughts she wanted to share with the supporters of this effort...
"I am so pleased to have this opportunity to share some of my love for Zambia with such a large group of children. I had the privilege of being raised in Zambia as the daughter of a missionary. My father began his missionary years in Zambia in 1982, when I was just six weeks old. His first position was at the bush medical mission in Mwembeshi. When I was in kindergarten our family moved into the capital city of Lusaka, where my brothers and I could attend the American Embassy School. My father continued his mission work serving as a pastor and a teacher at the seminary in Lusaka. The summer before my eighth grade year my family returned to the United States.
Zambia now holds a special place in my heart. The people there are full of love and are very welcoming. Many Zambians live a prosperous life, but many still live in poverty. I know that your gifts will be well received and will help many who are in need.
Thank you!
Abbie (Gunn) Fischer
"I am so pleased to have this opportunity to share some of my love for Zambia with such a large group of children. I had the privilege of being raised in Zambia as the daughter of a missionary. My father began his missionary years in Zambia in 1982, when I was just six weeks old. His first position was at the bush medical mission in Mwembeshi. When I was in kindergarten our family moved into the capital city of Lusaka, where my brothers and I could attend the American Embassy School. My father continued his mission work serving as a pastor and a teacher at the seminary in Lusaka. The summer before my eighth grade year my family returned to the United States.
Zambia now holds a special place in my heart. The people there are full of love and are very welcoming. Many Zambians live a prosperous life, but many still live in poverty. I know that your gifts will be well received and will help many who are in need.
Thank you!
Abbie (Gunn) Fischer
Friday, January 15, 2010
Devotional Thought
Here's a shortened version of a chapel devotion shared with FVL students by Pastor David Wenzel recently...
Each January our churches celebrate the festival of Epiphany. Epiphany marks the visit of the Wisemen or the Magi. We read about it in the Bible in Matthew chapter 2: “After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.”
Under our family’s Christmas tree this year, there were clothes for the girls, a Medal of Honor video game for the boys, a bracelet for my wife and a couple of “really cool” sweaters for me. What was under your Christmas tree? Some of you told me you got a new iPod touch … somebody else got gift cards … another student told me they got a laptop.
But there wasn’t any gold, incense, or myrrh for the Christ child under my Christmas tree, and probably not under yours either.
With our school’s “CHILDREN FEEDING THOUSANDS” effort, perhaps it would be worthwhile to look at these small bags of food as our gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh. The wisemen showed their devotion to Jesus by giving precious gifts to the Christ-child. We can still follow their example today and make a life-changing gift to others whom we may never meet on the other side of the world.
The Lord led the wisemen to Jesus with the help of a miraculous star. In the months ahead as we watch our progress in providing meals for starving children, a star won’t lead us to Bethlehem. Our Christ child is in heaven, and he doesn’t need a bag of rice for supper.
But there are thousands of children who do…children that God desperately wants in heaven…children for whom God put Jesus in a manger, children for whom God later nailed that Son to a cross.
$15 won’t buy you a plane ticket to Zambia so that you can share Jesus with a child. And the $15 of food that we are hoping each student and faculty member is able to send won’t give a child in Zambia faith. Only God’s Word can do that. But while we won’t be able to literally share God’s grace with these children, it will extend their time of grace and give those precious lives greater opportunity to hear of the saving message of a loving Savior.
It is God’s heartfelt desire…a desire he made clear to the whole world through his Son Jesus, that these children join you and me in heaven. Jesus himself said, “Whatever you do for one of the least of these, you have done for me.”
“CHILDREN FEEDING THOUSANDS” gives all of us, teachers and students alike, a chance to show our devotion to the Babe of Bethlehem. Your pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters – presented in love to your Savior -- will add up to a precious gift. And how precious would it be to meet some of the starving children we are helping in heaven one day!
May God bless our efforts to feed these children, and may God help us recognize how many blessings we have that we can share with those who have so little.
Each January our churches celebrate the festival of Epiphany. Epiphany marks the visit of the Wisemen or the Magi. We read about it in the Bible in Matthew chapter 2: “After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.”
Under our family’s Christmas tree this year, there were clothes for the girls, a Medal of Honor video game for the boys, a bracelet for my wife and a couple of “really cool” sweaters for me. What was under your Christmas tree? Some of you told me you got a new iPod touch … somebody else got gift cards … another student told me they got a laptop.
But there wasn’t any gold, incense, or myrrh for the Christ child under my Christmas tree, and probably not under yours either.
With our school’s “CHILDREN FEEDING THOUSANDS” effort, perhaps it would be worthwhile to look at these small bags of food as our gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh. The wisemen showed their devotion to Jesus by giving precious gifts to the Christ-child. We can still follow their example today and make a life-changing gift to others whom we may never meet on the other side of the world.
The Lord led the wisemen to Jesus with the help of a miraculous star. In the months ahead as we watch our progress in providing meals for starving children, a star won’t lead us to Bethlehem. Our Christ child is in heaven, and he doesn’t need a bag of rice for supper.
But there are thousands of children who do…children that God desperately wants in heaven…children for whom God put Jesus in a manger, children for whom God later nailed that Son to a cross.
$15 won’t buy you a plane ticket to Zambia so that you can share Jesus with a child. And the $15 of food that we are hoping each student and faculty member is able to send won’t give a child in Zambia faith. Only God’s Word can do that. But while we won’t be able to literally share God’s grace with these children, it will extend their time of grace and give those precious lives greater opportunity to hear of the saving message of a loving Savior.
It is God’s heartfelt desire…a desire he made clear to the whole world through his Son Jesus, that these children join you and me in heaven. Jesus himself said, “Whatever you do for one of the least of these, you have done for me.”
“CHILDREN FEEDING THOUSANDS” gives all of us, teachers and students alike, a chance to show our devotion to the Babe of Bethlehem. Your pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters – presented in love to your Savior -- will add up to a precious gift. And how precious would it be to meet some of the starving children we are helping in heaven one day!
May God bless our efforts to feed these children, and may God help us recognize how many blessings we have that we can share with those who have so little.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Latest update - January 14th
Our Children Feeding Thousands total of meals sponsored is now up to 82,378 meals!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Children Feeding Thousands Progress
We're back from Christmas!
January 10, 2010
Congratulations to all our FVL Schools partners! The current meal count for the children in Zambia is up to nearly 75,000 meals! (The exact total is 74,828)
We know that some schools are just starting their efforts and some are trying some new ideas so that their students can meet the goals they have set.
Fox Valley Lutheran High School kicked off their student effort last week with a Bible study involving every student and their teacher mentor. We look forward to their updates adding to our totals soon!
We are encouraging all our schools to keep working toward reaching our partner goal of 285,000 meals by mid-April.
CHRISTMAS BREAK - SEE YOU BACK IN JANUARY!
Week 3 total moves to 43,313
November 24, 2009
FVL Schools Kicks Off
Children Feeding Thousands Effort
November 3, 2009
Thanks to the hard work of our Children Feeding Thousands Steering Committee of men and women from across the FVL Schools system, we were able to kick off our system wide service project to provide a shipment of 285,000 meals for starving children in Zambia.
January 10, 2010
Congratulations to all our FVL Schools partners! The current meal count for the children in Zambia is up to nearly 75,000 meals! (The exact total is 74,828)
We know that some schools are just starting their efforts and some are trying some new ideas so that their students can meet the goals they have set.
Fox Valley Lutheran High School kicked off their student effort last week with a Bible study involving every student and their teacher mentor. We look forward to their updates adding to our totals soon!
We are encouraging all our schools to keep working toward reaching our partner goal of 285,000 meals by mid-April.
CHRISTMAS BREAK - SEE YOU BACK IN JANUARY!
December 23, 2009
Remembering the Savior who gave all for us - total is now 59,560
December 18, 2009
Progress continues -- now 56,077!
December 11, 2009
We are now up to 48,232!
December 4, 2009
Week 3 total moves to 43,313
November 24, 2009
In less than another week the total of meals sponsored goes to 37,866.
November 20, 2009
Our first published update on meals sponsored reveals a total of 22,304!
November 6, 2009
Committee members Jessica Enter and Ken Kasten begin distributing the display boards and progress charts to each school along with information packets on the program which culminates in a food-packing event April 22-23 at Fox Valley Lutheran High School.
Here is a miniature look at the display boards...
At Fox Valley Lutheran High School, FVL Schools Chairman Phil Punzel and Communications Director Dave Payne share a chapel message with the students and faculty introducing them to the FVL Schools Children Feeding Thousands service project.
FVL Schools Kicks Off
Children Feeding Thousands Effort
November 3, 2009
Thanks to the hard work of our Children Feeding Thousands Steering Committee of men and women from across the FVL Schools system, we were able to kick off our system wide service project to provide a shipment of 285,000 meals for starving children in Zambia.
Special thanks go to Sharon Ragner for designing our logo! Many volunteer hours were also spent putting together and distributing display boards for all our 23 schools. Many of the schools designated their 2nd quarter mission offerings for this project. Watch the progress on this blog. Some even started their efforts in September!
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