It happened in Goliad this week-end at the Baptist Church. Junior High and High School kids giving the week-end in a sacrificial way for world hunger. They first had to get money pledged by parents and others. I don't know the total amount. Our grandson, Dempsey Duprie, raised $155.00. The thirty young people spent two nights away from home at the church. Their fast was for the last thirty hours. In those hours they ONLY had something to drink. These are normal, burger-eating kids. In addition to their fasting they took on projects, like mowing lawns, cleaning houses, or whatever. If that wasn't enough, each youth had a "handicap". Dempsey had a paralyzed leg. To top it off, Saturday night they built their own shelters to sleep in from cardboard boxes. These were located outside the building where temperature plunged to the thirties. They did have sleeping bags. Sunday morning, proudly wearing new T-shirts, they sat together in the worship service.
This will be a life-changing event for these kids. They deprived themselves of comforts as they learned of the desperate needs among others kids in places like Ethiopia. The leader for this project is a State policeman who works with the youth in that church.
First Baptist fed them a covered-dish lunch for their first meal in thirty hours. Any left-overs? What do you think?
