Depite sleeping outside in cardboard boxes with no food for 30 hours, local teens still found it hard to imagine life on the street.
“We have sleeping bags and things they don’t have,” said Melanie Bale, Transformed Teen Ministries member at Oakland Woods Baptist Church on Maybee Road.
But the experience still illustrated problems they want to help fix.
“It gives us some perspective into what it’s like,” said Cody Nichols.
“It’s hard, but I get something out of it ? I get closer to God,” said Brandon Iglesias.
They raised money for each hour they fasted to help feed those who are hungry.
According to Worldvision charity, 26,000 children die every single day from hunger. The group illustrated that number by filling the church’s front yard with forks, each representing 10 children.
“This is to show how big a problem it is,” said Codie Lefler.
The weekend project also included service projects in Pontiac, including painting over grafitti at Grace Centers of Hope, gardening, grounds work, and trash cleanup at Lighthouse, washing windshields at a gas station, and going door to door to ask people what they need, prayer requests, and talking to them about a local church, and delivering care packages to local firefighters, police officers, and others.
‘We’ll drop them off all over the community,” said Heather Windeler, coordinator. “They’re random acts of kindness.?