Feed 100: End of 2008 Update!

I want to thank all of those who have contributed to Feed My Starving Children this year, through our Paypal Donation button or directly to the organization. This org does SUCH good and needed work.

Special thanks to Pastor John and our church family at All Nations Fellowship, who have truly served the "least," not just the "lost."

We have now fed 9 children for an entire year! We have sent 3265 meals! Yes, that's a long way from our goal of 100 children, but it's also a long way from doing nothing! The project will continue until we meet our goal!

Please consider ongoing donations to Feed My Starving Children in 2009 (either through our project, or directly through their site). Your donations literally save lives. .17...1 meal. $2....12 meals. $62....a years worth of meals!

Anita

Fabu Feeds Children!!!!

I just want to put out a great big public THANK YOU to my good friend Amy Fabu for selling cookies for our "Feed 100" project. Amy, you inspire me! Your kids inspire me! You make me think of that song, "If We Are The Body." You are His arms, reaching!!!!

Check out what the Fabu Family is doing HERE!

To all of you who have contributed, we are deeply touched. I will be doing an update soon. Remember, $2 is REAL MONEY that REALLY helps (donation button on side of blog)!!! If you decide to donate directly through Feed My Starving Children, that is wonderful too! Leave a comment and I'll add the number of meals you donated to the total we're keeping. We have a long way to go, but we will get there!

Anita

We're doing it!

Thank you to all of you who have contributed $2 (or more!) to help feed hungry children! We've already fed 1 child for an entire year. Only 99 more to go! 429 meals have been donated. Wow.

Does it mean you're talking about hungry children too much if your children play "Feed the hungry children" after dinner (pretending to sell stuff where the money goes to buy meals)?! LOL! It was very sweet, and my three kids have bought 9 meals for real, after they volunteered their combined $1.53.

**IMPORTANT REQUEST: I just learned that if you give by credit card we are charged .30 per transaction, plus 2.9%. So for instance, for a $10 that means we have about .60 in fees--or over 3 meals lost! If you decide to donate and can do it by paypal in a form other than credit card, that would be great! If not, we understand and will donate the "lost" funds back into the account with our own money. **

**IMPORTANT NOTE: Someone asked if they could send a check rather than doing PayPal. Of course!!! Write to me at agillispie@cox.net and I will send you our address!**

Anita

Help us Feed 100 Children for 1 Year

Our family has made a comittment to help provide the most basic care humans can provide for one another--food. We have made a comittment not to give less during this time of financial crisis in America, but rather to GIVE MORE. Not the same. MORE. We challenge you to partner with us to feed starving children in this world.

Some time ago a friend of mine told me about an organization called Feed My Starving Children. This organization buys food, puts it together into a nutritional packet meal (just add water) and then distributes the food to children in over 50 countries in the world.

For TWO DOLLARS you can put food into the mouths of 12 children. For TEN DOLLARS you can feed 60 children. This program works by feeding children one nutritionally complete meal per day--enough to survive. It's not fancy. It's doesn't have a catchy name. It's basic. It's food.

Our family has made a pledge to help gather enough funds to feed 100 children for one year. That's 36,500 meals. That is roughly 5400 pounds of food. One meal costs only 17 cents.

We want to invite you to join with us in this effort. How many meals can you provide at .17 each? We want to challenge you to give 12 meals. That's just $2. And we'd like you to ask atleast two other people to also give 12 meals. That's all. It's that simple. Ask 2 for $2.

I am adding a "Donate" button to the side of my blog. Each month, at the end of the month, I will post how many meals were provided and together we will count up to 36,500 meals! I know it will take us a LONG time to reach our goal if it is just the Gillispie family. But if we (the community) work together, we can reach this goal much more quickly!! Either way, our family is comitted to raising this money.

Ways to come up with $2 (or more)....

1. Buy two less 2 liters of soda each week.
2. Skip one trip to Starbucks or McDonald's for coffee.
3. Use 1/2 as much detergent on your laundry (you don't really NEED that amount for clothes to be much cleaner than the developing world's laundry!)
4. Us 1/2 a pound of hamburger meat for that casserole, rather than 1 pound.
5. Go to a cheaper brand of dog food.
6. Burn 4 less tealight candles this week.
7. Make brownies from scratch rather than buying that Brownie Mix.
8. Watch a movie on TV, rather than renting one.
9. Use towels as napkins, rather than paper napkins or paper towels.
10. Eat a "remember the hungry" meal once a week--plain rice with salt and maybe a bit of butter.

Anita

P.S. When you challenge 2 to give $2, consider adding to the list of ways to find $2 to the budget and pass the list on!