Comments on: A Coffee Fast http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/ Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:20:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Heather http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4302 Heather Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:42:29 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4302 I once calculated that if you only drank one starbucks a week you'd save enough money to sponsor a child :) :) I once calculated that if you only drank one starbucks a week you’d save enough money to sponsor a child :) :)

]]> By: Compassion Australia http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4134 Compassion Australia Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:00:56 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4134 Wow Kim, you have re-developed the Global Food Crisis campaign using your church's website branding! Well done!! The rebranding would no doubt foster a sense of ownership within your church community! I pray that through this campaign your congregation will learn to give out of your heavenly inheritance. May the children be filled! Irene xoxo Wow Kim, you have re-developed the Global Food Crisis campaign using your church’s website branding! Well done!! The rebranding would no doubt foster a sense of ownership within your church community! I pray that through this campaign your congregation will learn to give out of your heavenly inheritance. May the children be filled!

Irene xoxo

]]> By: Andi http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4132 Andi Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:34:08 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4132 A great idea - check out Mocha Club at https://www.mochaclub.org/mochaclub/welcome! A great idea – check out Mocha Club at https://www.mochaclub.org/mochaclub/welcome!

]]> By: Kim http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4129 Kim Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:23:16 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4129 This is so encouraging to read! We are challenging our members at Calvary Chapel Salt Lake City, friends and families to "Eat Simply" and "Consume Compassionately" and spend the money saved to feed a child! As we consider celebrating Christ's birth, let's give Him the gift of feeding His children! We would love feed back on our webpage that we are building: http://www.calvaryslc.org/Ministries/GlobalFoodCrisis/tabid/271/Default.aspx This is so encouraging to read! We are challenging our members at Calvary Chapel Salt Lake City, friends and families to “Eat Simply” and “Consume Compassionately” and spend the money saved to feed a child! As we consider celebrating Christ’s birth, let’s give Him the gift of feeding His children!
We would love feed back on our webpage that we are building:
http://www.calvaryslc.org/Ministries/GlobalFoodCrisis/tabid/271/Default.aspx

]]> By: Compassion Australia http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 Compassion Australia Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:38:08 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4114 That's so true, Rich. Perhaps we sometimes don't understand our spiritual hunger, and try to fill it with things that satisfy the physical / emotional ... That’s so true, Rich. Perhaps we sometimes don’t understand our spiritual hunger, and try to fill it with things that satisfy the physical / emotional …

]]> By: compassion dave http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4109 compassion dave Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:06:52 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4109 Ah, my comfort is found in the truth of His Word Ah, my comfort is found in the truth of His Word

]]> By: Rich Swingle http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4105 Rich Swingle Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:56:32 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4105 Great idea! I'll join you...at least until Thanksgiving. You said, "Clearly, our appetite for God doesn’t develop in the same way that our body naturally hungers and thirsts for food and drink." I think we all do have a natural craving for God, but we can fill it with gods that only satisfy for the moment. We drift toward comfort, but it is not comfort that leads to greatness. Great idea! I’ll join you…at least until Thanksgiving.

You said, “Clearly, our appetite for God doesn’t develop in the same way that our body naturally hungers and thirsts for food and drink.” I think we all do have a natural craving for God, but we can fill it with gods that only satisfy for the moment.

We drift toward comfort, but it is not comfort that leads to greatness.

]]> By: compassion dave http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4077 compassion dave Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:19:45 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4077 I just pulled up a little tidbit about coffee that I was going to <i>'try'</i> to incorporate into my blog today. Here in the good ol USA, a 16 oz. cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts costs $1.75. The article goes on to say that if you make your coffee at home your cost will be about $.55. <b><i>"So what,"</i> you say?</b> By years end you will have saved $438.oo...enough money to sponsor a Compassion and buy yourself some donuts to go with that coffee we are now making at home. I hope I have not taken anything away from the purpose of the original post--perhaps for those who struggle with caffiene addiction can eliminate the 'place' where they normally obtain their coffee, rather then the actual coffee it's self. Just a thought. I just pulled up a little tidbit about coffee that I was going to ‘try’ to incorporate
into my blog today. Here in the good ol USA, a 16 oz. cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts costs $1.75. The article goes on to say that if you make your coffee at home your cost will be about $.55.

“So what,” you say?

By years end you will have saved $438.oo…enough money to sponsor a Compassion and buy yourself some donuts to go with that coffee we are now making at home.

I hope I have not taken anything away from the purpose of the original post–perhaps for those who struggle with caffiene addiction can eliminate the ‘place’ where they normally obtain their coffee, rather then the actual coffee it’s self. Just a thought.

]]> By: Choe http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4076 Choe Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:50:59 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4076 We should not really loose sight of the reason why this fast is taking place. Whether it’s coffee, sugar, bread or an entire meal, each person is giving up something that for them is a necessary everyday thing. So I guess you could say that coffee or sugar could be an addiction, but let’s face it, so can food. Each individual’s fast symoblises what they know is something they cannot do without and whilst some may think that coffee is a little thing, you must also remember that it’s all relative. And as for coffee being the wage earners for millions of impoverished people, this argument only works if you are specifically talking about fair-trade. Millions slave away on coffee plantations to earn a pittance or if you are a child caught in slave labour, you earn absolutely nothing and probably get abused in the process. It’s the same for chocolate and for tea. In fact everything we eat is a wage earner for someone, so does that mean we shouldn’t fast food for a month? No it doesn’t. We are doing it because we don’t know what it’s like to go without and we just want to say to those who go without everyday that we care and that we understand. We should not really loose sight of the reason why this fast is taking place. Whether it’s coffee, sugar, bread or an entire meal, each person is giving up something that for them is a necessary everyday thing. So I guess you could say that coffee or sugar could be an addiction, but let’s face it, so can food. Each individual’s fast symoblises what they know is something they cannot do without and whilst some may think that coffee is a little thing, you must also remember that it’s all relative. And as for coffee being the wage earners for millions of impoverished people, this argument only works if you are specifically talking about fair-trade. Millions slave away on coffee plantations to earn a pittance or if you are a child caught in slave labour, you earn absolutely nothing and probably get abused in the process. It’s the same for chocolate and for tea. In fact everything we eat is a wage earner for someone, so does that mean we shouldn’t fast food for a month? No it doesn’t. We are doing it because we don’t know what it’s like to go without and we just want to say to those who go without everyday that we care and that we understand.

]]> By: Chelsea http://blog.compassion.com/fast-for-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4075 Chelsea Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:27:08 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=1118#comment-4075 Jim, please do not miss the heart behind this fast, it is not to deprive nations of precious income, but to give up something for a month (not necessarily coffee), donate the money saved, and use the cravings as a reminder to pray. For those of us who have become somewhat dependent on coffee these cravings come regularly. I hope you enjoy your cup of FTO coffee and I look forward to the end of the month, but until then I will continue to fast and pray for those who barely get food each day, let alone a good cup of coffee. Jim, please do not miss the heart behind this fast, it is not to deprive nations of precious income, but to give up something for a month (not necessarily coffee), donate the money saved, and use the cravings as a reminder to pray. For those of us who have become somewhat dependent on coffee these cravings come regularly. I hope you enjoy your cup of FTO coffee and I look forward to the end of the month, but until then I will continue to fast and pray for those who barely get food each day, let alone a good cup of coffee.

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