God have mercy on us...

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Almost everything wrong with the church can be summed up in this Facebook status by a teenage girl... "for 30 hours starting march 5th i will go without food, to raise awareness about world hunger and poverty. my church is sponsoring the event and we will be having lots of fun bowling and having lock-ins

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Our high school did the 30 hour famine when I was there. It started as a lunch thing that anyone who wanted could participate in - you paid $1-2 for lunch and pulled a number, then you were assigned to one of three groups - about 75-80% got just a scoop of rice, another 10ish% got rice and beans, and the remainder got a BIG meal (like roast beef, all the trimmings, etc) - a way to show what the real global way looks like.

Then, those that chose to participate in the whole 30 hour famine stayed afterschool/overnight. They joined by bringing canned goods for a food pantry, I believe they went door-to-door either than afternoon or the next day (it was a Fri/Sat thing) asking for non-perishables for the same food pantry, and they went to downtown Chicago that night to someplace like Union Gospel Mission and volunteered to serve the homeless and poor their meals from the soup kitchen there. There were Bible studies overnight as well if they wanted, or they could choose to sleep.

I don't remember why, but I wasn't able to participate that time (it was first done my senior year), but it was such a success that they did it every year after from what I understand. THAT is how it's supposed to be done. But it's also the only place that has done 30 hour that I'm aware of that did it that way... most are as your young friend described.