Lent 2008:  Go Hungry for the Hungry

 

Since the beginning of the church, Lent has been a time of reflection, repentance, and abstinence.  For Lent this year, we will again align ourselves with this tradition and combine it with outreach to the less fortunate.  We are asking those who are interested to give up one meal a week (or choose another means of abstinence) and contribute the money that would have been spent on that for a Lenten offering.  This offering will go to the Haiti School Hot-Lunch Program (more information on this project will be forthcoming).  Please use the Lenten envelopes for your contribution (those without envelopes should mark "Lent" on an envelopes in the church pew).

 

There are different ways you may participate in this experience:

 

-         giving up a mid-day meal;

-         not eating until late afternoon;

-         eating smaller portions;

-         giving up a particular food or activity.

 

Giving up food helps one to understand what it feels like for the many people in the world who go hungry each day, but it is a personal decision how you want to approach this.  The essential issue is not deprivation but devotion, and what is most meaningful for you.  Through this experience, may this Lenten period be a time when we draw closer to God and our neighbor.

 

Neota Hall, Outreach Chair