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The Manna Project - 2011Day Forty - 2011Today we are focusing on Somalia. Today is the last day of the manna project but you can donate to the effort at any time. The hunger crisis in Somalia and East Africa is growing but IDES is doing all that it can to help. Please keep praying for all of those around the world that are starving and for the people that have the opportunity to feed them. Thank you to all that have participated in the manna project but if you have not and still want to it is never too late. You can skip a meal or fast for a day any time and then give that money to the manna project. Donate to the manna projectDay Thirty Nine - 2011Today we are focusing all of Africa. Situations all across Africa are dire as people are battling one of the worst famines on record. IDES has ongoing feeding programs in Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, and many more countries. Please continue to pray for those in Africa dealing with starvation and for the missionaries who are trying to help with hunger and water development in those countries.Day Thirty Eight - 2011Today we are focusing on Haiti. IDES is still working in Haiti on various projects and this week we have had a group from the US partner with IDES to work in Haiti. They have worked all week with Haitian Christian Mission and their primary focus was the construction of houses for those left homeless by the earthquake. They also helped with the medical clinic, school, and orphanage. You can find out about more IDES mission trips at: IDES Short Term Mission TripsDay Thirty Seven - 2011Today is feeding programs in the Philippines. Here are two separate feeding programs that feed children. IDES has ongoing hunger relief programs in the Philippines that are funded in part with programs like the manna project.    Day Thirty Six - 2011Today we are focusing on the Harvest of Talents at Galesburg CC, in Galesburg, KS. Their HOT is on November 12th. Please pray for all of the volunteers and those who will come to our three remaining HOT's.Oct. 15-16 Unity Christian Church - Marion, Indiana Oct. 22-23 Lincoln Christian Church - Lincoln, Illinois Nov. 12 Galesburg Christian Church - Galesburg, Kansas 100% of all funds raised will go to feed the hungry! Day Thirty Five - 2011Today we are focusing on all those who have or will be fasting during the manna project. There is still time to pick a day and fast for world hunger needs. Thank you to all that have participated so far. We have had some people even decide to only eat rice and beans or the kids against hunger food for an entire month. Gail Moffitt wrote, "For the month of September I am fasting and praying for those who are hungry in our community and around the world. Especially the famine in several African countries. I am eating one meal a day, only drinking water and having no dessert. It has been an amazing 8 days. Still fasting - I've noticed it being harder a for few days now, just ready to be done with it, I think. Then I remember those who have no choice but to be hungry. I find it hard to know how to pray for those in famine areas and especially those in Somalia with the violence all around them. It is good to know that God is God and sees all things. What a comfort that he is real and alive and bigger than the difficulties of this world. God is there to pull me through the hunger pains as he does those around the world." Thanks Gail and all of those who have participated thus far.Day Thirty Four - 2011Today is Kenya. Here is an IDES food distribution with CMF.
IDES gave over $40,000 to CMF to help with food and water development. Thanks to Wendy Wagoner one of the missionaries on the field for her work and pictures. Learn more about this work on her blog by visiting here: Day Thirty Three - 2011Today we are focusing on Africa. If you like the Ride For IDES facebook page 12 meals will be donated to Africa through our manna project. Next year, Mark Yeaton will be riding his bicycle across the country to raise money for wells for Africa through IDES. You can find out more about this project and how you can help by liking: this link.Day Thirty Two - 2011Today we are praying for South America. A lot of countries in South America deal with constant poverty. You can help the poor this coming week through the manna project for free by liking other facebook pages. Today if you like 12:3 photography, 12 meals will be provided through the manna project. Check them out by clicking: here.Check out tomorrow for another way you can help for free! Day Thirty One - 2011Today we are focusing on the poor in Guatemala. This is an IDES sponsored feeding program to street kids in Guatemala. Over 70% of the population is considered poor so please pray that these necessary programs can continue.    Day Thirty - 2011Today we are praying for the poor in Indonesia. Over 39 million are below poverty level and that number is rising. Please pray for all those around the world that woke up this morning with nothing to eat. Can you skip a coffee or an expensive dessert today and give it to the manna project? $5.00 will feed a family for a month in Kenya. Donate online by clicking: here.Designate the manna project Day Twenty Nine - 2011Today we are focusing on the original and ongoing Harvest of Talents in Lincoln, IL. Established in 1984 at Lincoln Christian Church this church event has raised over $2,000,000 dollars for world hunger needs through IDES. The Harvest this year will be on Oct 22-23 so make sure you join them for a great event. Also coming up on Oct 15-16 is the Harvest at Unity Christian Church in Marion, IN. Thank you to all of the volunteers and all who participate in this years Harvest. Email us your favorite harvest memory.Day Twenty Eight - 2011Today we are focusing on Europe. A lot of poverty, hunger, and turmoil is in Europe these days. Child poverty in Eastern Europe has risen dramatically over the last few years. Over 50 million children live in poverty in that area alone. Please pray for peace and ways for people to provide food for their families. Full ArticleDay Twenty Seven - 2011Thanks everyone for helping us reach over 4,000 likes on facebook! That qualifies us for 12 meals for each new like for Africa through the manna project. Today we are focusing on the poor and hungry in Mexico. Even through they are close to the US poverty in certain areas of that country are extreme. Keep praying!Day Twenty Six - 2011Great Job everyone we just need a few more to reach 4,000 on facebook! Today we are focusing on Uganda. Another country in East Africa that really needs our help. Please keep praying for the people of East Africa and the missionaries who are helping there. IDES has ongoing hunger projects throughout Africa.Day Twenty Five - 2011Today we are focusing on an easy way for your to feed the hungry in Africa especially in Kenya and Tanzania. For each new like we get on facebook and for each follow we get on twitter 12 meals will be donated for free. We only have until next Saturday so spread the word.Facebook:like us here Twitter:follow us here Day Twenty Four - 2011Today we are focusing on Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the World's poorest countries with over 44 percent of the population live under the poverty line and about 12 million nearing starvation. They are part of the horn of Africa who has suffered devastating droughts and famines. Please keep praying for the people in Africa and the missionaries that work there.Day Twenty Three - 2011Today we are focusing on the God Always ProvIDES program. This is a program where volunteers or Churches can pack food for the hungry in Haiti. For only .25 a meal we can buy highly nutritious ingredients, pack it with volunteer help, and then ship it to Haiti. Will you skip a meal this week and give it to the manna project to feed the hungry? If you want more information about the GAP program you can contact Randy Jones at rjones@ides.orgDay Twenty Two - 2011Today we are focusing on the Harvest of Talents at Unity Christian Church in Marion, IN. This Harvest will take place on October 15-16th so if your in the area stop by to help support World Hunger needs. Pray for the volunteers as they get ready for this Harvest of Talents. To find out more about the Harvest of Talents and how your church can participate visit: http://www.ides.org/harvestoftalents.htmlDay Twenty One - 2011Today we are praying for the hungry in Sudan. IDES has had many projects in Sudan over the years and will continue to pray and help those who are hungry especially if the poverty is caused because of violence. Please pray for Sudan and the missionaries who work in that country.Day Twenty - 2011Today we are praying for Somalia. The drought is getting worse as millions are on the brink of starvation. IDES is helping with food relief. This week we are going to try again to hit 4,000 fans on facebook. Our donors are going to offer 12 meals to Eastern Africa drought for each new like we get on facebook. We only have until next Monday to hit 4,000! Spread the word. Like us on: FacebookDay Nineteen - 2011Today we are praying for Somalia. They are still suffering from the drought that has also increased famine conditions in Kenya and Tanzania. Click here to see pictures from CMF and Wendy Wagoner in Tanzania. You can find out more about the ministry of CMF at: http://cmfi.orgDay Eighteen - 2011Today we are back in Tanzania where the drought is getting worse. IDES has partnered with CMF to help distribute food and drill wells for this drought hit area. $5.00 will get a family through this drought for a month with the manna project. Donate by clicking: here Designate the manna project.Day Seventeen - 2011Today we are back in Kenya. IDES has sent over $50,000 to help with the drought in Kenya. IDES will continue to help with Kenya but we could use your help through the Manna project. Skip a coffee, soft drink, or dessert this weekend and give it to the manna project. Donate by clicking: here Designate the manna project.Day Sixteen - 2011Today we are focusing on the Harvest of Talents in Milford, IN. Their Harvest of Talents is this Saturday September 24th and Sunday September 25th so if you are in the area stop by to support them. 100% of every purchase goes to world hunger needs through IDES. Pray for the volunteers who will put this together and those who will come to the event. http://www.idesorg/harvestoftalents.htmlDay Fifteen - 2011Today we are focusing on the hungry in the United States. The poverty rate has reached the "highest percentage in 51 years" at 14.3% of the population. Much of this is due to the recession and world economy. Pray for them today and continue to pray for those in Japan as the typhoon heads towards the earthquake zone.Click here for complete report. Day Fourteen - 2011Today we are focusing on Japan. IDES is still helping Japan after their Earthquake with clean up, supplies, and feeding programs. Now a typhoon is headed to Japan causing 1.3 million people to evacuate. Pray for these people as they evacuate and for those in Japan who are still dealing with loosing everything from this year's earthquakes.Click here for coverage of the storm. Day Thirteen - 2011Today's focus is IDES hunger programs in Asia. IDES helps with hunger programs in many Countries in Asia including programs in orphanages and areas hit with disaster. Today please pray for Asia and the missionaries who are providing aid.Day Twelve - 2011Today we are focusing on India. IDES has many different ongoing feeding programs throughout India. Please keep them in your prayers today. www.ides.org/manna.htmlDay Eleven - 2011Today we have two harvest of talents raising money for world hunger needs. Please pray for the volunteers and all that will attend. Harvest of Talents is a great program that raises money for hunger needs by getting people to donate their talents. You can find out more about the Harvest and upcoming dates on our website at: www.ides.org/harvestoftalents.htmlDay Ten - 2011Today we are focusing on the Dominican Republic and lifting the poor and the missionaries there up in prayer. IDES has helped with food relief in the Dominican Republic for many years including a place called the "Hole", which is an active landfill where many people live including street kids. The Dominican borders Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, but has a lot of poverty as well. Please keep praying for all of the hungry in the world including those in the Dominican.Day Nine - 2011On day nine we are lifting up another Harvest of Talents in Prayer. This is the first Harvest of Talents for Greentree Christian Church in Rolla, MO. Their Harvest is this Saturday September, 17th. For more information check out their website by clicking here Please feel free to stop by if you are in the area or help promote their event and lets lift their event and the workers up in prayer. For each item sold 100% will go to world hunger needs.Day Eight - 2011On day eight of our 40 days of hunger focus we are focusing on the first Harvest of Talents of the year, held at Michigantown Christian Church - Michigantown, IN on Sept 17-18th. Saturday 8-3 - Sunday chicken and noodles from 11-1pm and auction at 1pm. Come by and with every purchase help the hungry through IDES. Click here to find out more about Harvest of Talents.Day Seven - 2011On day seven we are focusing on the Philippines and the IDES feeding programs in that country. We also have a challenge for you this week. For each new "like" we get on facebook normally we have donors provide 6 meals for the hungry but this week if we can hit 4,000 fans they will provide 12 meals. Let your friends know and see if we can get 4,000 fans by next Tuesday. Help us spread the word! Click here to view our facebook page.Day Six - 2011Today we are focusing and praying for Tanzania. IDES has done a couple of different projects in Tanzania to help with their drought, including partnering with CMF. CMF's Website Keep praying for Tanzania, Kenya, and Somalia and remember for each meal you skip someone will be fed for a month through IDES and the manna project.Day Five - 2011Today is day five of the manna project and today we are focusing on the hunger relief program called the SonFish Banks. These cool blue little "fishies" help people all over the world. You fill them up with your spare change and they will feed a child for a month. To learn more and to order your free SonFish Banks to fill for world hunger visit: http://www.ides.org/sonfish.htmlDay Four - 2011Today is day four of our 40 day's of hunger focus and today we are focusing on the hunger relief program the "Harvest of Talents". The Harvest started in Lincoln, IL by Pat Snyder but has grown to many churches in many states. So far the Harvest has raised over $2,000,000 dollars for world hunger needs. You can find out more by visiting: http://www.ides.org/harvestoftalents.htmlDay Three - 2011
Today's focus is Haiti. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and IDES has been helping since the 1980's. Recently we started sending our God Always ProvIDES food packets that have six meals per package. These meals will provide enough food for only .25 a day. Skip a meal over the next 40 days and give the money to the manna project. You will feed a lot of people for only .25 a day. If you would like more info on our GAP program you can email Randy Jones at rjones@ides.org
Day Two - 2011
Today we are focusing on Somalia. The UN has published that "over 750,000 Somalians are now closer to complete starvation". Food can not be sent into Somalia because of violence but IDES is helping Somalian refugees outside of Somalia. Please pray that the violence will stop and that more food will become available. All of East Africa is suffering from an extreme famine including, Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia. IDES is also helping and partnering with organizations in Kenya and Tanzania to help with the famine in those areas as well. Today's challenge: Pick a day this weekend or sometime next week to try and eat on only $2.00 for the entire day. Most in the world live on $2.00 or less so challenge your family or youth group to do the same. Then give the money you would have spent on food to the IDES manna project to help with these food needs.
Day One - 2011
Today we are focusing on Kenya. Kenya is part of the East African extreme drought that is causing millions to be without food. Kenya borders Somalia where over 750,000 are in danger of starvation. IDES has and will continue to send food and aid into Kenya to help with this drought. For only $5.00 you can feed a child in Kenya for a month. For each expensive coffee or meal you skip in the next 40 days you could feed a child for a month.
An easy way to help: Next summer Mark Yeaton will be bicycling across America to raise money for clean water through IDES. Many of these wells will be put in East Africa. Like the "Ride For IDES" page on facebook and 6 meals will be donated this year through the manna project for East Africa. Visit here to sign up for free and feed the starving. Last Year's PostsDay Fortywww.ides.org/harvestoftalents.html |
Day Thirty Eight
Please continue to pray for the people in Haiti. One of our short term mission trips have returned from Haiti and they see improvements but also not that much more is needed. Many were starving before the earthquake and now that number has risen dramatically.
Day Thirty Seven
Please pray for the people of Unity Christian Church in Marion IN as they participate in their Harvest of Talents for World Hunger today.
Day Thirty Six
Today's focus is the Harvest of Talents the church ran hunger relief program that utilizes peoples talents. We have had many successful Harvests this year but we have more to come. Unity Christian Church, Marion IN on Oct 16th. Lincoln Christian Church in Lincoln, IL on October 23rd. Rocklane Christian Church in Greenwood, IN on Nov. 7th and Galesburg Christian Church in Kansas on Nov. 13th. Please pray for the people running these harvests and for those that attend that much needed money will be raised to help feed the hungry around the world.
Day Thirty Five
We want to thank the youth and volunteers of First Christian Church in Franklin, NC. They have given up sugared drinks for the 40 days of hunger focus. They said, "It has been hard, but they have done GREAT." Great job and know that your small sacrifice will feed a lot of starving children.
Also Five days left and we are still focused on trying to hit 3,000 fans or "likes" on facebook. Number of free meals that will be donated has doubled to 12 per each new "like". Help us spread the word.
Day Thirty Four
With six days left to go we want to focus on facebook likes. Did you know for each new facebook "like" 6 people will eat through the manna project? Well if we can hit 3,000 "likes" or fans within the next 30 days, or 772 more that number will be doubled to 12. If you would like to help us by matching more gifts that number will be increased. For more information contact Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org.
Day Thirty Three
With seven days left to go of our 40 days of hunger focus we want to focus on how we can help those in need. Can you or someone you know give up one meal out to eat this week and donate that money to the manna project? Each $5.00 raised will feed a child for a month. Let's spread the word and have a great last 7 days.
Day Thirty Two
Today's Focus is the SonFish banks. If you fill your SonFish bank with just pennies alone you will feed a child for an entire month in the Philippines or in Haiti.
Day Thirty One
Today's Focus is Indonesia. IDES has worked many times in Indonesia especially after disasters. IDES is currently working in Indonesia after major floods destroyed most of their crops. Please continue to pray for the people of Indonesia.
Day Thirty
Today's Focus is the United States. Please pray for those in the states who have lost their jobs or are hungry. Also pray for those in the states who are giving their time and money for the manna project so that others can eat.
Day Twenty Nine
Today's Focus is India. With funds from IDES' Harvest of Talents hunger program the feeding project for the less fortunate (children of the poorest of the poor and of those suffering from leprosy) is going very well. We are able to help change lives and also share the Good news of our Lord to thousands of kids every month. Find out more about upcoming Harvest of Talents by clicking here.
Day Twenty Eight
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program meal. Thank you to Hillcrest Christian Church in Bedford, IN for participating in the Manna Project and inviting us to come to your "Manna Meal" last night. Normally on Wednesday they have a meal but this week they chose to eat a small bowl of rice from our "GAP" program instead. This focus on hunger also raised enough money to feed over 1,070 people in Haiti for a day! Great Job! If your church or youth group would like to have a "Manna type Meal" next year during the 40 days of hunger focus email Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Seven
Today's focus is various countries in Africa. IDES helps the poor in many of the countries throughout Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Sudan. Some of these feeding programs are even for orphanages. Please keep Africa and their missionaries in your prayers.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Thirty Six
Today's focus is the Harvest of Talents the church ran hunger relief program that utilizes peoples talents. We have had many successful Harvests this year but we have more to come. Unity Christian Church, Marion IN on Oct 16th. Lincoln Christian Church in Lincoln, IL on October 23rd. Rocklane Christian Church in Greenwood, IN on Nov. 7th and Galesburg Christian Church in Kansas on Nov. 13th. Please pray for the people running these harvests and for those that attend that much needed money will be raised to help feed the hungry around the world.
Day Thirty Five
We want to thank the youth and volunteers of First Christian Church in Franklin, NC. They have given up sugared drinks for the 40 days of hunger focus. They said, "It has been hard, but they have done GREAT." Great job and know that your small sacrifice will feed a lot of starving children.
Also Five days left and we are still focused on trying to hit 3,000 fans or "likes" on facebook. Number of free meals that will be donated has doubled to 12 per each new "like". Help us spread the word.
Day Thirty Four
With six days left to go we want to focus on facebook likes. Did you know for each new facebook "like" 6 people will eat through the manna project? Well if we can hit 3,000 "likes" or fans within the next 30 days, or 772 more that number will be doubled to 12. If you would like to help us by matching more gifts that number will be increased. For more information contact Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org.
Day Thirty Three
With seven days left to go of our 40 days of hunger focus we want to focus on how we can help those in need. Can you or someone you know give up one meal out to eat this week and donate that money to the manna project? Each $5.00 raised will feed a child for a month. Let's spread the word and have a great last 7 days.
Day Thirty Two
Today's Focus is the SonFish banks. If you fill your SonFish bank with just pennies alone you will feed a child for an entire month in the Philippines or in Haiti.
Day Thirty One
Today's Focus is Indonesia. IDES has worked many times in Indonesia especially after disasters. IDES is currently working in Indonesia after major floods destroyed most of their crops. Please continue to pray for the people of Indonesia.
Day Thirty
Today's Focus is the United States. Please pray for those in the states who have lost their jobs or are hungry. Also pray for those in the states who are giving their time and money for the manna project so that others can eat.
Day Twenty Nine
Today's Focus is India. With funds from IDES' Harvest of Talents hunger program the feeding project for the less fortunate (children of the poorest of the poor and of those suffering from leprosy) is going very well. We are able to help change lives and also share the Good news of our Lord to thousands of kids every month. Find out more about upcoming Harvest of Talents by clicking here.
Day Twenty Eight
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program meal. Thank you to Hillcrest Christian Church in Bedford, IN for participating in the Manna Project and inviting us to come to your "Manna Meal" last night. Normally on Wednesday they have a meal but this week they chose to eat a small bowl of rice from our "GAP" program instead. This focus on hunger also raised enough money to feed over 1,070 people in Haiti for a day! Great Job! If your church or youth group would like to have a "Manna type Meal" next year during the 40 days of hunger focus email Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Seven
Today's focus is various countries in Africa. IDES helps the poor in many of the countries throughout Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Sudan. Some of these feeding programs are even for orphanages. Please keep Africa and their missionaries in your prayers.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Thirty Four
With six days left to go we want to focus on facebook likes. Did you know for each new facebook "like" 6 people will eat through the manna project? Well if we can hit 3,000 "likes" or fans within the next 30 days, or 772 more that number will be doubled to 12. If you would like to help us by matching more gifts that number will be increased. For more information contact Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org.
Day Thirty Three
With seven days left to go of our 40 days of hunger focus we want to focus on how we can help those in need. Can you or someone you know give up one meal out to eat this week and donate that money to the manna project? Each $5.00 raised will feed a child for a month. Let's spread the word and have a great last 7 days.
Day Thirty Two
Today's Focus is the SonFish banks. If you fill your SonFish bank with just pennies alone you will feed a child for an entire month in the Philippines or in Haiti.
Day Thirty One
Today's Focus is Indonesia. IDES has worked many times in Indonesia especially after disasters. IDES is currently working in Indonesia after major floods destroyed most of their crops. Please continue to pray for the people of Indonesia.
Day Thirty
Today's Focus is the United States. Please pray for those in the states who have lost their jobs or are hungry. Also pray for those in the states who are giving their time and money for the manna project so that others can eat.
Day Twenty Nine
Today's Focus is India. With funds from IDES' Harvest of Talents hunger program the feeding project for the less fortunate (children of the poorest of the poor and of those suffering from leprosy) is going very well. We are able to help change lives and also share the Good news of our Lord to thousands of kids every month. Find out more about upcoming Harvest of Talents by clicking here.
Day Twenty Eight
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program meal. Thank you to Hillcrest Christian Church in Bedford, IN for participating in the Manna Project and inviting us to come to your "Manna Meal" last night. Normally on Wednesday they have a meal but this week they chose to eat a small bowl of rice from our "GAP" program instead. This focus on hunger also raised enough money to feed over 1,070 people in Haiti for a day! Great Job! If your church or youth group would like to have a "Manna type Meal" next year during the 40 days of hunger focus email Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Seven
Today's focus is various countries in Africa. IDES helps the poor in many of the countries throughout Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Sudan. Some of these feeding programs are even for orphanages. Please keep Africa and their missionaries in your prayers.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Thirty Two
Today's Focus is the SonFish banks. If you fill your SonFish bank with just pennies alone you will feed a child for an entire month in the Philippines or in Haiti.
Day Thirty One
Today's Focus is Indonesia. IDES has worked many times in Indonesia especially after disasters. IDES is currently working in Indonesia after major floods destroyed most of their crops. Please continue to pray for the people of Indonesia.
Day Thirty
Today's Focus is the United States. Please pray for those in the states who have lost their jobs or are hungry. Also pray for those in the states who are giving their time and money for the manna project so that others can eat.
Day Twenty Nine
Today's Focus is India. With funds from IDES' Harvest of Talents hunger program the feeding project for the less fortunate (children of the poorest of the poor and of those suffering from leprosy) is going very well. We are able to help change lives and also share the Good news of our Lord to thousands of kids every month. Find out more about upcoming Harvest of Talents by clicking here.
Day Twenty Eight
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program meal. Thank you to Hillcrest Christian Church in Bedford, IN for participating in the Manna Project and inviting us to come to your "Manna Meal" last night. Normally on Wednesday they have a meal but this week they chose to eat a small bowl of rice from our "GAP" program instead. This focus on hunger also raised enough money to feed over 1,070 people in Haiti for a day! Great Job! If your church or youth group would like to have a "Manna type Meal" next year during the 40 days of hunger focus email Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Seven
Today's focus is various countries in Africa. IDES helps the poor in many of the countries throughout Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Sudan. Some of these feeding programs are even for orphanages. Please keep Africa and their missionaries in your prayers.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Thirty
Today's Focus is the United States. Please pray for those in the states who have lost their jobs or are hungry. Also pray for those in the states who are giving their time and money for the manna project so that others can eat.
Day Twenty Nine
Today's Focus is India. With funds from IDES' Harvest of Talents hunger program the feeding project for the less fortunate (children of the poorest of the poor and of those suffering from leprosy) is going very well. We are able to help change lives and also share the Good news of our Lord to thousands of kids every month. Find out more about upcoming Harvest of Talents by clicking here.
Day Twenty Eight
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program meal. Thank you to Hillcrest Christian Church in Bedford, IN for participating in the Manna Project and inviting us to come to your "Manna Meal" last night. Normally on Wednesday they have a meal but this week they chose to eat a small bowl of rice from our "GAP" program instead. This focus on hunger also raised enough money to feed over 1,070 people in Haiti for a day! Great Job! If your church or youth group would like to have a "Manna type Meal" next year during the 40 days of hunger focus email Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Seven
Today's focus is various countries in Africa. IDES helps the poor in many of the countries throughout Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Sudan. Some of these feeding programs are even for orphanages. Please keep Africa and their missionaries in your prayers.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Twenty Eight
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program meal. Thank you to Hillcrest Christian Church in Bedford, IN for participating in the Manna Project and inviting us to come to your "Manna Meal" last night. Normally on Wednesday they have a meal but this week they chose to eat a small bowl of rice from our "GAP" program instead. This focus on hunger also raised enough money to feed over 1,070 people in Haiti for a day! Great Job! If your church or youth group would like to have a "Manna type Meal" next year during the 40 days of hunger focus email Ryan Chapman at rchapman@ides.org. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Seven
Today's focus is various countries in Africa. IDES helps the poor in many of the countries throughout Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Sudan. Some of these feeding programs are even for orphanages. Please keep Africa and their missionaries in your prayers.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Twenty Six
Today's focus is the last day of the GAP program focus. Thanks to Dogwood Community Church in Paoli for participating in the manna project and packing over 6800 meals through the GAP program for Haiti. Next Saturday we will be at Markle Church of Christ in Markle IN where they will also be packing food for Haiti through our GAP program. You can find out more about the GAP program by clicking here.
Day Twenty Five
Today's focus is day two of a three day focus on the GAP program. Please pray for upcoming "GAP" events and for the missionaries that will pass out this food in Haiti.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Twenty Four
Today's focus is a three day focus on the "GAP" program (God Always ProvIDES). This is a volunteer based food packing program that provides food to Haiti. Please pray for the food that is packed in these events that it will benefit the poor in Haiti.
Day Twenty Three
Today's focus is India. This country is still having problems after massive flooding had destroyed a lot of their food supply. Please continue to pray for IDES feeding programs in that country.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Twenty Two
Today's focus is Tanzania. This country in Africa borders Kenya and has suffered they same drought like weather over the last ten years. Please keep them in your prayers and that they will be able to find food. IDES works in many countries using development projects to help people produce a food source. Find out more about IDES development projects by clicking here.
Day Twenty One
Today's focus is Mexico. Mexico is filled with pockets of poverty and hunger. Many times after a disaster like a hurricane or recent mud slides it makes finding food harder. Please pray for the poor in Mexico and the missionaries there.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Twenty
Today we are half way done with our 40 days of hunger focus. So today we are focusing on facebook and twitter. For each new "like" on facebook and each new "follower" on twitter 6 people will eat through the manna project. Help us spread the word.
Twitter link: http://twitter.com/idesorg
Day Nineteen
Today's focus is Haiti. Along with mud cookies many of the poor in Haiti will try and find fresh fruit or veggies and also will eat red beans and rice. Here is a recipe for red beans and rice from Haiti.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
2 cups of long grain rice
1 cup of red kidney beans
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped hot green pepper
1/4 cup salt pork or bacon cut into small cubes
1 tbsp of butter
2 chopped cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions Cook the beans in 4 cups of water for 2 hours or until tender in a medium pot.
Drain the beans but keep the water which will be used to cook the rice.
Fry the salt pork or bacon until crisp (use oil if needed). Add the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the beans along with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water used to cook the beans and bring to a boil.
Add the rice and cook for 20-25 minutes.
Day Eighteen
Today's is day two of a three day focus on Haiti. Many of the people are still living in tents after the Earthquake. Please pray that they will not be hit by a Hurricane or a major storm while clean up is continuing.
Day Seventeen
Today's focus is the start of a three day focus on Haiti and our food programs there. Please pray for the missionaries that are still trying to feed the hungry after the earthquake.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Sixteen
Today's focus is Southern India. IDES has helped with many feeding centers, disasters, and water projects in India. Please keep them in your prayers.
Day Fifteen
Today's focus is SonFish Banks. Last year over $64,000 was raised for world hunger needs through SonFish Banks. That is a lot of change. 100% of the money put into a SonFish Bank will go to fight world hunger. If you fill your SonFish bank with pennies alone it will feed a child for a month.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Fourteen
Today's focus is a two day focus on SonFish Banks. SonFish banks help hungry people all over the world. If you fill your SonFish bank with quarters it will feed at least 8 children for a month.
Day Thirteen
Today is see you at the pole! As many people around the world pray for their schools, teachers, and communities. We also want to pray for those around the world in need. Today's focus is the US. Many are suffering here in the United States as well but we also want to focus on what we can do here in the states to help.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Twelve
Today's focus is Niger. Over the past year they have had a severe famine and millions are without food or starving. IDES has many feeding programs and crop development projects throughout Africa. Please pray for the people of Niger and their missionaries.
Day Eleven
Today's focus is Asia. IDES has many feeding programs throughout Asia including in orphanages. Especially after a disaster IDES funds are needed to feed the hungry. Please pray for our missionaries throughout Asia..
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Ten
Today's focus is Kenya. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family of eight in Kenya for a month. IDES is looking for people to pledge to skip an expensive coffee or a meal out this week for the manna project. One meal here equals a whole month of meals for a family around the world. You can donate online by clicking here.
You can pledge to skip a meal this month for the manna project by clicking here.
Day Nine
Today's focus is India. They recently experienced the worst flooding they have experience in over 100 years. This flooding destroyed much of their useable crop supply and they are experiencing a national food shortage. Please keep the people of India in your prayers.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Eight
IDES has worked in over 100 different countries. When a disaster strikes it usually causes the hunger situation in that country to worsen. Most recently flooding in India and Pakistan caused massive damage but it also destroyed over 1 million acres in useable crops. Please pray for all the people around the world that are experiencing a food crisis.
Day Seven
Today's focus is the Philippines. One of our missionary partners in the Philippines is Ross and Cheryl Wissmann. They sent us a list of food items eaten by the poor in the Philippines. If you would like to find out more about their ministry you can check out Cheryl's facebook profile by clicking here.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes
Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
1. Nothing - literally - in harder times such as floods, drought, economic downturns, or just a bad day - the poorest people have nothing at all to eat.
2. In the cities like Manila, the poor will beg coins from the cars and then go and buy a /pandesal/ - a P1.00 (2 cents) very small breadroll - maybe 1" diameter. (The big /pandesal/ we have given the IDES folk when they were here was 10 cents each).
3. The beggar children go and buy glue and sniff it.
4. In the provinces - out in the country - there are various roots and leaves that grow wild in the tropics - there is one -/ lame/ or /name/ - a root that is poisonous and has to be boiled for 3 days before it can be eaten
5. Other things the poor in the countryside eat on a regular basis include:
a. /kamote/ tops - the leaves of a sweet potato or yam b. /kangkong/ - leaves that grow in the water
c. /casava/
d. /saba saging/ - a short fat banana with a very thick skin that can only be eaten if boiled
e. /niyog/ - the flesh or meat of a ripe coconut
f. small green mangoes Unlike most items on this list, these have some nutrition in them.
6. Those who live on the sea or by a stream may catch a little fish - the size of a sardine - and eat it - head, bones and all. Fish eyes are the delicacy. But most steams and coastal waters were fished out long, long ago. They will also be polluted to some extent. All of Manila Bay has had red tide disease.
7. The poor will often buy a few little dried fish. They are heavily salted.
8. Often, the poor will just buy a little (white) rice - maybe just 1/2 kilo - 60 cents worth - cook it (boil with water), and eat with a little non-iodized salt.
9. The beggars will wander around the streets, look in garbage bins, and eat whatever they find that day.
10. Poor families (4 to 8 persons - that may or may not include a healthy adult and will include small children and frail elderly) on a regular basis, will just eat 1 "meal" a day. When they get out of bed in the morning, they have no food and no money. One or more of them will scrounge around trying to get money. This may include begging, borrowing, or stealing. It may include selling cigarettes, candy, or the like at the street corner. It may be helping cars park. It may be helping in the rice paddy. Then, in the afternoon, when they have obtained a little money, they will spend it all and buy rice. If it has been an unsuccessful day, it may be late evening before they eat. If it has been a little more successful day, they will buy just 1 egg and put it with the rice. The cycle will begin all over again the next day. If the breadwinner is sick, it is disaster.
Day Six
Today's focus is on the hunger program Harvest of Talents. Every year people donate their time and their talents in order to raise money for World Hunger Needs. We have two Harvest of Talents events coming up this week.
Sept. 18-19 Michigantown (Indiana) Christian Church
Sept. 18 Chillicothe (Illinois) Christian Church
Sept. 25 Milford (Illinois) Christian Church
Oct. 16 Unity Christian Church, Marion, Indiana
Oct. 23 Lincoln (Illinois) Christian Church
Nov. 7 Rocklane Christian Church, Greenwood, IN
Nov. 17 Galesburg Christian Church, Kansas
Please pray for both the people who are donating goods and time for a good cause and for the people who will come and shop on these days. As always 100% of the funds raised will go to fight world hunger.
Day Five
Today's focus is Haiti. IDES has many partner missionaries and organizations in Haiti and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti wrote that, "IDES is funding the orphan's project in Haiti. These children have absolutely nothing having lost both parents. If we cannot help them they will starve. It is that simple. I.D.E.S. is doing all they can as they are stretched thin by aiding people all around the world." Many children are now hungry because one or two of the bread winners in their family was killed in the Earthquake. For only $5.00 you can feed an entire family for a month in Haiti through The Manna Project. Please lift them and Sharing the Gospel with Haiti in prayer.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Four - Kenya
Last year Kenya suffered from a severe drought. The people's livestock died and many were without food. IDES started development projects including ways to get water to crops and drought resistance goat projects in those areas. The people are still suffering and need your prayers.
Day Three - Philippines
IDES has many feeding programs in the Philippines. For only $5.00 you can feed a family for an entire month in the Philippines. Many times storms will come and wipe out homes and crops in the Philippines causing massive shortages of food. Please pray for the people and the food supply in the Philippines today.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Day Two - Haiti
Since the earthquake IDES volunteers have packed over 250,000 meals through our "GAP" (God Always ProvIDES) program. IDES helps with many feeding centers throughout Haiti. Today please pray for our missionaries in Haiti who continue to work to serve the needs of the people.
Day One
IDES is calling for people in the US to hear the cries of the poor and weak around the world. Just like the people of Nineveh who declared a fast, after Jonah proclaimed that, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." (Jonah 3:4) We also declare a nationwide 40 days of hunger called the manna project. We need people to dedicate to prayer during those forty days. We need people that will pick a day during the 40 days to fast or give up an expensive coffee for the poor around the world. For each coffee or meal out at a restaurant ($5.00) you can feed a family for a month through IDES and the manna project. We need people who will pick a day during the 40 days and eat only one menu item, like rice and beans, that the poor would eat in third world countries. We need you.
Will you help us by praying for this event?
Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries?
Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches.
Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you,
IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
Will you help us by praying for this event? Will you help us by picking a day to fast or to only eat what the poor eat in third world countries? Will you help us by promoting this event to your friends and family?
You can sign up and learn more about the manna project at http://www.ides.org/manna.html
It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life forever.
*For each new facebook like or follow on twitter 6 meals will be provided through the manna project for free.
Click here for twitter.
Click here for facebook.
*For each expensive coffee or dessert that is skipped and then that money is given to the manna project an entire family will be fed.
Please pass this on to your friends and post it in your churches. Together we can make a difference for world hunger.
Visit our website at http://www.ides.org/manna.html for daily updates, prayer concerns, and recipes from around the world.
Thank you, IDES
Click here to pledge to fast, eat only rice and beans, or to help us promote this project.
You can do our manna project any time over the next year but we want to get as many pledges as we can during the 40 day hunger focus. Click here to see our 40 day pledge calendar.
Check back daily for updates on the project, updates from missionaries from the field, and ways that you can help.
You can make a donation to this manna project at any time online by clicking here. Make sure you designate "manna project".
You can donate with a check or money order by sending it to IDES (marked manna project)
PO BOX 60
Kempton, IN 46049
Below is an informational brochure you can print and hand out to your group or church.
Click here to learn about the Harvest of Talents. A church program that includes the talents of all ages help with fighting world hunger.
Click here to request SonFish banks, VBS or Manna packets, or general information about hunger programs.
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