Fast Food for the Hungry

No I’m not talking about pizza for the hungry people of Africa.  The logo at the left of Domino’s was just to make you think that.  In reality this article is about “fasting” food for the sake of the hungry and less fortunate.  This is a good thing to do and in fact the Bible has a lot to say about providing the needs of the less fortunate, and none other than Christ himself said “when you feed them, you feed me.” 

In other words, a good deed done, out of a genuine motivation for another, is a good deed done for God.

Our church is trying to start a fund for feeding poor people around the world.  about 500 million people live on less than a dollar a day.  If we gave up “fast food” just once a week - that would be the equivalent of their weeks income. 

So my proposal is this.  We “fast food” by giving up “fast food” once a week.  During this occasion we should actually fast – by this I mean, we should actually not eat for one meal, and use that occasion to both save money, but also to pray for the hungry of the world. 

Then we take the $7 we saved by not eating and we give it away.  By doing this we are feeding the hungry, and blessing the Lord who instructed us to do this.

You can join our fund by sending me an email – we still haven’t quite worked out the best way to do this yet.  But let me know you are interested and we’ll go from there. 

James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.” 

Isaiah 58:6a & 7a “Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice… to share your food with the hungry and to provide the wanderer with shelter.”