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Fami1y - Fast a Meal in 1 Year
Why
Fami1y?
Every time your family sits down to share
a meal together, there are other families in our country who are unable
to do so. In fact, more than 12 million American households do not
always have access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all
household members.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
After all,
we live in a land where God has provided so abundantly that the amount of
food we waste in the U.S. each year could feed every hungry American.
The only reason there are hungry people in the U.S. is because we permit
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Instructions |
1. PRAY. Pray
throughout the year for the eradication of hunger in your community,
across the nation, and globally. Also pray for organizations and
ministries that serve the hungry.
2. DECIDE. Have a conversation with your family about which meal
you will fast together. Perhaps you will choose to fast during lunch on
National Hunger Awareness Day, the first Tuesday of June. Maybe your
family will decide to fast a dinner during Lent. Or possibly you will
choose to fast a breakfast during the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Whichever day and meal you decide, mark it on your calendar and be
faithful in fasting the meal on the day you choose.
3. CALCULATE. After your family fasts, tally up what it would
have cost everyone to have eaten the missed meal.
4. GIVE. Send your check in that amount to the Meals for Millions
Coordinator at: Society of St. Andrew, 3383 Sweet Hollow Rd., Big Island
VA 24526-8517. Write Fami1y in the memo
section of the check. Your
donation will be used to feed the nation’s hungry through the hunger
relief ministries of the Society of St. Andrew, along with assisting in
the continued efforts of the Hunger Relief Advocates in education and
hands-on hunger ministries.
History
of Fami1y
Introduced
at the March 3-5, 2006 United Methodist Men’s National Association of
Conference Presidents meeting in Nashville, TN, “Fast a Meal in One Year”
(Fami1y) becomes a hunger relief vehicle for the United Methodist
Church.
UMMen National Past-President Glenn Wintemberg explained, “The vision came to
me while attending the 2005 National Hunger Summit in Washington DC.
With thousands of hunger advocates in one place, the setting was the
perfect place for the idea to be born. This is another instance where if
you open yourself to the possibilities of what God has in store, he will
answer.”
Glenn’s hope is that Fami1y will become the primary fasting vehicle of
the United Methodist Church simplifying the efforts under one umbrella
and working through the Society of St. Andrew and the United Methodist
Men’s Hunger Relief Advocates. Our initial goal is to encourage the
Church to fast at least once a year, which members can start anytime.
Each September, during National Hunger Awareness Month, we encourage your church to use
a
Sunday during that month Hunger Awareness Sunday. There
are Sunday school lessons and worship materials available through the
Society of St. Andrew at
EndHunger.org/NHAM.
Printed brochures are available through the General Commission on United
Methodist Men’s office, or your Hunger Relief Advocate.
What a wonderful opportunity this will be for individuals, families,
Sunday school classes, youth groups and entire churches to lift up the
awareness of hunger, which currently affects more than 40 million people
in the U.S., many of whom are children.
