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Meet Sarah Sarah from Alabama is our campaign of the week. She is 11 years old and raised $400. She gave Rice Bowls to her neighbors and people who came into her mom's deli. Way to go Sarah! This campaign is enough to provide healthy meals to a child for a year and a half.

Do not say, "I am only a Child"

• This year we used Rice Bowls as our Missions emphasis for Vacation Bible School. VBS is a week-long (Monday thru Friday). So, we gave out bowls on Monday night (we collected bowls Thursday night) and talked to the children about what these little rice-bowl-shaped piggy banks are all about. We explained that we’d use the bowls to collect money that would be used to help buy food for children living in orphanages around the world. We told the children that Jesus loves all children and that by collecting money for other children they were doing what Jesus wanted asked. They took to their project in a most serious way.
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• The best part of the week was … hearing preschoolers scream that money in Rice Bowls is money “for Jesus to feed the other kids!”
• The coolest thing we learned … not to say that children can’t do great big things! Our kids collected $1,505.36 and then had a gift of $500 (unexpectedly!) added to their total!
• What we’ll do differently next year …

1. 1. Plan our coin-counting time better. This year, we had about 15 people who helped sort, count & roll coins & cash over a six-hour period;
2. 2. Count each class individually so that we can tell each class how much they collected. This year, we were too rushed to attempt it!
3. 3. Set a goal and publicize it so that kids can work toward it and, hopefully, surpass it! Our kids really reminded us not to forget that Jeremiah 1:7 says, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.'  …"

• Our campaign was a daily reminder of friends around the world who will know the love of Jesus because of the efforts, faith and constancy of children.
• Campaign Coordinator: Brooke McCombs

FCA raises money with Rice Bowls

Diner and Donations

HUNTINGTON, IN—Seven Huntington University students have raised funds to help provide food for orphaned children across the globe.
A group of students, including Abe Janson, Adam Atkins, Brad Kunze, James Holliday, Andrew Honeycutt, Matthew Siewert and Taylor Zeman, came up with an idea early in the spring semester to hold an event called “A.J.’s Diner” every other Saturday throughout the semester. Using the slogan, “dinner after dark, breakfast before bed,” the group served eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes and juice to other students. Within a short period of time, they had approximately 100 people attending.
“We did this so that we could get people together and relax while we served them,” said Zeman, a senior recreation and sports ministry major from Beavercreek, Ohio. “Tips were collected as a means to keep us funded.”
Toward the end of the semester, however, Zeman saw an ad in a magazine for Rice Bowls. Rice Bowls is a faith-based, non-profit organization that collects money for orphanages, particularly those in India, Haiti and Sub-Saharan Africa that have been affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. The organization was founded by Dr. Alastair Walker, the pastor of a church in Spartanburg, S.C., in 1980, after he saw firsthand the desperate situations of developing countries. Since its founding, Rice Bowls has collected tens of millions of dollars to help ease world hunger.
Zeman sent in for the bowls and received a box of 50. During the next A.J.’s Diner event, which happened to be the second to last event of the semester, the team handed out the bowls and asked everyone to take one and bring it to the last event, just a few days before finals, full of change.
The last A.J.’s Diner dinner was set up outside as a cookout with a bonfire, live music, hot dogs, hamburgers and chips, and a collection box was set up for students to drop off the rice bowls. The students raised $381.92.
“We were glad to be able to take advantage of the stage that A.J.’s Diner created and to do something with a purpose,” Zeman said. “God provided a means for us to promote awareness of a global issue as well as allowing us to follow through with an actual donation.”
The team plans to continue A.J.’s Diner and collaborating with Rice Bowls again in the fall.
Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. U.S.News & World Report ranks Huntington among the best colleges in the Midwest. Founded in 1897 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Huntington University is located on a contemporary, lakeside campus in northeast Indiana. The University is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU).
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KIDS COR

KIDS COR at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection is our campaign of the week! In Kansas, this children's ministry raised $9,025.23. Great job guys and thanks for the pictures!
Learn more about their campaign on their blog->

Collected Bowls.		Counting Change.		Feeding Kids!

At the Market

    
We collected at the local Farmer's Market in downtown Sycamore. We used a jug to collect for those who wanted to give immediately and handed out a couple dozen rice bowls which were returned throughout the summer and even into the fall people returned them to the church.
Dan Stovall, Pastor
Sycamore Baptist Church
Sycamore, IL

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Sara Eden Williams, Director of Youth Ministries
First United Methodist Church of Williamson
Williamson, NY