Submitted by Judy…
Gracepoint Fellowship Church of Berkeley, CA had the privilege of participating in World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine for the second time this year. Starting in May, Gracepoint Fellowship Church members – from Pastor Ed and his wife Kelly Kang, to youth and college students, from elementary students to their parents – geared up for the fast. A total of about 600 people signed up and got to work finding sponsors and thinking of creative ways to collect donations.
In the end, Gracepoint Berkeley raised over $115,000, surpassing last year’s amount! We were tremendously grateful to have raised so much in the midst of these tough economic times. Though what we did for the 30-Hour Famine was such a small step in helping the cause of fighting poverty, we gained so much through this experience. We hope that the abiding memory of this will serve to constantly remind us of how blessed we are, and that we will live with the posture of giving, as we saw that it is indeed more blessed to give than to receive.
