Retiree Jim Motin, a tutor for 10 years, has no intention of stopping now. My driving force is to give back to God some of what he's given me. More than 100,000 volunteers serve others through 96 affiliates in 30 states. John Fidel of Albuquerque, N.M., reports that one phone call brought LOVE INC volunteers to the aid of a Bakersfield, Calif. woman in just one hour. Other World Vision Opportunities Church congregations participating in the Love Loaf program can become part of the solution to hunger.
Families take home plastic banks shaped like bread loaves along with activity suggestions.
While donations collected in the banks support World Vision's work overseas, each church can keep as much as 50 percent of the money raised to fund their own mission efforts. Countertop volunteers place World Vision's displays in neighborhood businesses to collect patrons' spare change which they send to World Vision. In World Vision's 30 Hour Famine, kids get to know hunger in a whole new way by spending a weekend fasting, helping their communities, and learning about global problems while they raise money for needy children overseas.