To love him with all your heart, with
all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as
yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Mark 12:33
The Christ Community Chapel Student Ministries (high school and middle school) across all four campuses have been challenged to love their neighbors this Christmas season.
That’s nice. What’s up with that?
The Urban Vision Giving
Initiative (#UVGive) challenges our students to give up some of the Christmas gifts
they would normally receive. Money that
would have gone to the gifts will instead buy food for the kids at Urban Vision
in the North Hill area of Akron.
Buy food? Tell me more.
Urban Vision has a problem,
but it’s a good one.
UV has had such a great
impact on at-risk kids through its after school tutoring program, Set On
Success, that the organization has seen a spike in demand for meals. Normally, UV had been serving about 20 meals
a day. Now, it must ramp up to 90 meals a day.
How come?
Urban Vision reached one
Latina girl who was impressed with the hope, love and academic help she
received, as she was also told about the Gospel. God’s love overflowed from her
heart, and she invited about 50 of her friends, who have also come to UV. As the world has come to Urban Vision’s
doorstep, kids of Middle Eastern and Asian backgrounds have responded
similarly.
And UV is called to feed
them.
How do we help?
Students at all the campuses have already been challenged to pledge $25 or more toward this initiative, and they have caught the vision. Just with our middle school students alone, we have over $4,000 pledged. Some have also committed to volunteer work at UV. We can pitch in to
increase the impact.
For information on UV’s meal
related needs, see: http://www.urbanvisionministry.org/meals_at_urban_vision.aspx .
Please pray about coming alongside our students in supporting Urban Vision. If you would like to donate, or to volunteer
at Urban Vision, contact Todd Iannetta at:
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