Today I’ve started my “Add All of My Friend’s Friends” Facebook campaign. Nothing new there, most people new to Facebook, especially when Facebook was the new buzz word, have already done that, and subsequently deleted all of their “friends”.
So why am I doing it? David Platt, author of Radical and pastor of mega church Brook Hills in Birmingham Alabama, along with my daughter have inspired me. My daughter said to me a couple weeks ago, “dad, I don’t want any presents. I want to end world hunger”. I was shocked, and thrilled, and challenged. How can I let that Christmas wish go unheard, or unanswered?
I mulled over that sentence for a few days and thought about the current food truck craze. I thought maybe I could get a few trucks to donate food or gather around a shelter or homeless camp, something. I spoke with a bunch of food trucks and it turns out giving away food isn’t possible unless it’s a licensed, organized event; the health department is forced to ensure people don’t get sick, no matter how hungry they may be.
So my family is just going to go downtown L.A. on Thanksgiving morning and buy a few servings of something and give it away to the first people that we find who look hungry. We may not be ending world hunger, but we’ll be ending hunger for one person for an hour or more. The world doesn’t change overnight, but it changes nevertheless.
Multiply one serving by how many friends you have, how many hours of hunger do you think we can end?
For more about Radical and David Platt, I’ll leave that up to your Google skills.
No matter your beliefs, whether you love God or reject the very idea, the least we can all do is help a single person not go hungry for a single hour, can’t we?
