STARVING 2 SERVE: where we raise the $ Currently we have raised $41,000 to help eradicate world hunger and to help those in our community!  Don't forget to turn in your money!!

What is Starving 2 Serve?

STARVING 2 SERVE is our fundraising event to help our community and our world.  We partner with the Community Serivce Ministry that does local projects with kids, the homeless, the sick and projects to fix up and beautify local schools and parks.  For the world aspect we partner with Outside the Bowl, a charity group that builds soup kitchens in impoverished nations.  These soup kitchens work with local people and farmers to eventually become self sufficient- no longer requiring American support.  They just need our help to plant new soup kitchens in other areas.  Our students will be getting people to sponsor them to go without food for 30 hours.  During this time students learn about sacrifice; what it means to be hungry and in need something millions of people face everyday in our community and the world.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:  A parent or guardian must fill out the S2S consent form.  Once this is turned in you will recieve your packet.  This packet has all the info you need to know about what you are collecting money for, holds the S2S receipts (for cash ONLY), and serves as a handy dandy money collecting receptacle!  All money and receipts need to be collected in this envelope and brought to the STARVING 2 SERVE celebration on March 12th. Please have checks made out to North Coast Church with the students name in the memo.

95% of the proceeds for this event will go support communtiy service in our local area as well as to help stop world hunger.  This is such an awesome opportunity for us to give back since God has given us so much. 

Here are some statistics aboutthe need in our community and our world:

  • There are 9,600 homeless people living in San Diego County
  • 75% of all deaths in children under age 5 in the developing world are caused by malnutrition or related diseases
  • 1,020 homeless women and children are living in San Diego County
  • 25,000 people die every day from hunger and related causes
  • one child is abused every hour in San Diego County
  • More than 70% of the world’s 146 million underweight children under age 5 live in just 10 countries

Here is what we are going to do about it:

  • Providing food and resources to local shelters and pantries
  • Helping "Outside the Bowl" to build soup kitchens in 3rd world countries
  • Helping fix up and beautify local schools
  • Each soup kitchen built will be able to provide over 5,000 meals a day
  • Providing support for Michaelle House
  • Remodeling local non-profit community centers
  • Future soup kitchens locations include Mexico and Guatamala

THE FAMINE: where we go without

For 30 hours we will go without food, drinking only water and juice.  We will learn just a little bit about what life is like for 963 million people worldwide who don't get enough to eat and for the many in our own community who go without.  The Famine will begin and we will stop eating on Thursday, March 11th at 6pm. Join us for our LAST SUPPER that night at 4:30pm.  We are going to Souplantation- 7th Grade- Carlsbad, 8th Grade- Vista.  NOT MANDATORY, BRING YOUR FUN-RAISER FLYER!!!

On Friday, March 12th at 6pm we will meet here at the church for an incredible time of games, AIRBANDS, fun, friends, worship and reflection before ending our famine at midnight by eating the BEST MEAL OF YOUR LIFE.  Following that we will fall into food comas and sleep until pick up at 8am Saturday morning. ONLY FOR THOSE PARTICIPATING and you must raise at least $25 to attend.