Promotional & Advocacy (select a category below)

1) Walk-a-thon
- Organize a walk-a-thon, bike-a-thon, or any a-thon to raise support and awareness for child sponsorship.
2) Benefit Concert
- Organize a benefit concert which features a local musician or artist.
3) Cultural Night
- Choose a country or area of the world and then make food from that country, put up a map, wear clothing, play music, and teach phrases and customs from that culture.
4) Silent Auction
- Create a silent auction with items donated by church members and then send proceeds to child sponsorship or other program.
5) Donate Services
- Host an event where people donate a service (such as washing cars, cleaning houses, doing massage therapy) and then give the proceeds to a program or project.

1) “Holiday Tree”
2) Hang up child profiles of children who need sponsors as ornaments on a tree in the sanctuary, youth room, or children’s room.
3) Sponsor testimonies
- These can be shared during a service, presentation, or published in a bulletin.
4) Children’s activities
- Child sponsorship can easily be incorporated into any children’s event.
5) Global Dinner
- Host a “Global Dinner” by preparing food from another country and then sharing about the living conditions of children in that country. For recipes click here and choose a continent and then choose a country.

1) Poverty Meal
- Plan a dinner that teaches your congregation about world hunger.
2) Malawi Video/Testimonies
- The proceeds from this year’s Nazarene Famine are going to villagers in northern Malawi. We sent 5 students to Malawi to meet and spend time with the people there. Show the video to your congregation, small group, or youth. Find it at http://www.ncm.org/cs/news.aspx.
3) Share a Story
- Find stories to share at http://www.30hourfamine.org/portal/story/index.html.
4) Famine Sunday
- Host a “Famine Sunday” at your church which makes the connection between the Famine and Child Sponsorship. For more details visit http://www.30hourfamine.org/portal/pages/nazarene/Naz_FS.html.
5) TRIBE Game
- Do one of the activities from the TRIBE game with your youth group. Download instructions at http://www.30hourfamine.org/portal/pages/leader/Tribe.html. Note: This game is meant to be played during the Famine event, but you can use one or more of the activities to get people excited about participating.
6) 30 Hour Famine PowerPoint
- Go to http://www.30hourfamine.org/resource/30_Hour_Famine_2008.ppt.
7) 30 Hour Famine Bulletin Inserts
- Go to http://www.30hourfamine.org/resource/2007_30HF_BI_4_weeks.doc.
8) Exchange Ideas
- Get ideas and ask questions of youth leaders participating in the Famine at http://www.30hourfamine.org/forum/index.html.
9) For additional activities that can be done before, during, or after the Famine go to http://www.30hourfamine.org/portal/activity/index.html.

1) Visit a soup kitchen in your neighborhood.
2) Plan a food or clothing drive.
3) Mentor a newly immigrated family.
4) Educate your congregation on fair trade gift options.
5) Organize a sweatshop simulation.
6) Do the online AIDS Experience.
- This interactive online experience that can be found at http://media.worldvision.org/getinvolved/aids_experience/index.html?lid=362&lpos=top_drp_AIDSex.7) Host a beans and rice lunch after service at your church. Take donations and then send in response to a disaster.
8) Participate in a $2 dinner challenge. Most families around the world live on less than $2 a day. Challenge the families in your congregation to make a meal for $2 or less.