You Are Needed!

You may be new to "One Daily Serving".  If you are, it's important that you get the back story behind the project.  This is a good place to start.  These posts are in backward chronological order.

Although this is a very personal journey for me in my own spiritual growth, I have also elected to make it public in that I want YOU to experience hunger through me.  I want YOU to gain some of the insights revealed to me over the months.  But mostly, through this public project, I want YOU to help me do something about hunger.

I pray that my family is able to take this trip next summer.  Click here to check out the video of Numana's current trip to Kenya.  Seems like a great family vacation to me!  My kids would certainly see the world in a different light.

The food provided in the video was packaged in Wichita.  A half a million meals!  Wow!  My goal for Salina is 100,000 meals.  The cost of the food for this project would be $23,000 and we would need help in packaging.  Hopefully YOUR help.

Please consider being a part of this project.  It doesn't have to be a large financial commitment.  Even $1 per month for the year (total of $12) would add up if enough people were willing to give to the cause.  ALL proceeds will go directly to Numana, Inc. for food.  There are no additional expenses associated with this project.  (The $.23 per meal would cover Numana's food costs, administration, shipping, etc.)

You need to know that Numana, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization...so your donation will be tax deductible!

In fact, your contribution doesn't have to be monetary at all!  Your prayers would be a welcome and much needed gift!  And, of course, I would love for you to join me and my friends (bring your whole family!) as we package food next August.

To make a pledge, just complete this form.  A certificate will be sent to you to remind you of your contribution.  Monetary donations will not be "due" until the end of the project--August 1, 2013.  However, your contribution of prayer starts today.

If you are able come help us package in August, please bring a covered dish.  Let's celebrate our accomplishment by sharing a meal together in our fellowship with one another.

More details of the event will continue to come as we get closer to the project's end.

By the way...it was a good day.  After at least of week of my hunger really feeling like a heavy burden, it was nice to have a day of respite.  Neither my head nor my stomach seemed to clamor for food today.  These days seem to be few and far between so I am grateful.

Thanks for reading!

Save the Pets

I got my lab results back today.  It's no wonder I was so tired.  (See them at http://onedailyserving.weebly.com/the-stats.html)  I'm currently anemic with low electrolytes and blood platelets.  This evening I went and bought some vitamins.

If that brings up my numbers I will continue to keep my food intake as it is...one daily serving of Numana.

Speaking of Numana, Jay is currently over in Kenya dispensing food.  What an amazing trip that would be for my family, in particular, my children.  I hope this project opens their eyes considerably.

Over the weekend we got a flyer in our newspaper from IAMS dog food.

Really?  It costs only 23 cents to feed a hungry human.  Our priorities are a bit out of control.  It irritates me that they seem to be using the same language that is used for pleas to help the starving around the world.

Humans were created in God's image to be in dominion over the animals.

A listened to man say yesterday that he had a pet rabbit for a while as a child...and then one day it was gone.  He asked his father, "Where's my rabbit?"  His dad pointed at the oven and said, "We're higher on the food chain."

What about you?  Is your pet an "idol" in your life?  Does it keep you from traveling because you can't leave it?  Does it cost you resources that you really can't afford or that could be better used?

Pets are just pets.  And in many countries, they are supper.

And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 

 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”  (Genesis 1:24-26, emphasis mine)

Can't wait to see what PETA has to say about this...