Middle School Students Participate in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine Nearly 250 school buses worth of children die every day— mostly from preventable causes like hunger, poverty, and disease. To better understand the children and families in need, our middle school students experienced what it would be like to be without food, for 30 hours. Pastor Zach and Paul Chung (Grade 11) coordinated a trip to Seoul Foreign School to participate in the 30 Hour Famine Lock In. They along with Ms. Max Vu, Ms. Anna Vaughan (volunteer), and Jay Moon (Grade 12) accompanied 18 Middle school students as everyone learned how to be ambassadors for the hungry. Through their participation, students raised awareness and collected funds to send to World Vision, a Christian charity that helps victims of famine and other catastrophes. The 30-hour famine began from Thursday Feb. 21, as students ate an early dinner and did not eat again until 11:00 p.m. the next day. Students arrived in school on Friday, dropped off their sleeping bags in the CLC, and went to class. By lunchtime, everyone was hungry, but instead of going to the cafeteria, they gathered in the CLC to discuss reasons why Christians fast. After school, the students boarded vans to go to Seoul Foreign School. Students spent the night there experiencing hunger, learning about global poverty from both an economic and scriptural perspective, and deepened their friendships through games and discussions. The night ended with a bowl of rice. As they ate the plain rice, many said, “Plain rice never tasted so good.” In all, our students fundraised $1,000 and shared about the needs of the hungry with over one hundred people. However, as Paul put it, the best part of this experience was that “we learned how to see the world differently, with more gratitude and compassion.”
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