The Currency of Community Impact

I can’t tell you what excitement rests within me as I look forward to the 3^rd annual Hallows Eve Diversion.  Over the past few years, this project has taken on a life of its own.  Starting as an idea birthed in my heart by God, this project now seems to have a community of owners.  I get the joy of watching college students ramp up and prepare for a day every October when they can make a huge difference in their community, and begin to change their world.

Ideas such as the Hallows Eve Diversion began forming years ago, as I observed a trend in my conversations with college people.  Whether I was talking to a future teacher, doctor, store manager or missionary, I found the same latent calling rustling between the words.  Conversation after conversation brought up the reality of one person wanting to affect the world for good.  Each person had a desire to cause a change in our world for good, making it a better place.  At the same time came this frustration in the form of a small and simple lie – “I can’t do it, I don’t have what it takes.”  You see our world, and the generations before us have painted a picture of impact and world changing happening thru money and power.  They were not wrong to do this, because in their time and their day that was the way you got things done.  I am here to tell you that we live in a new day, and the currency of community impact has changed!

Today, through our banding together in large numbers, through our focused efforts, we are changing our world in new ways.  The Hallows Eve Diversion is just one example of this.  A group of college students going door to door on Oct 31^st, collecting food for local food pantries…this simple act has happened the last 2 years and is about to happen again.  As we have done this, more students have joined in, more homes have been visited (and invited into this journey) and by our efforts (empowered by God’s favor), we have seen thousands of families receive an answer to the hunger they are experiencing.  We are watching college students change the world!

I am inviting you to be a part of this project again, by joining us on Saturday, October 31^st at Georgia Gwinnett College for the 3^rd annual Hallows Eve Diversion.  (http://ThisHallowsEve.com)

As we sit just a few days away from this event.  I am also inviting you to join me in an act of remembrance.  As I have been thinking and praying over this event, I am reminded that I have rarely had to experience true hunger in my day-to-day life.  It is easy for me to remember our Hallows Eve event as a fun time for us to join together and make a difference, but it is easy for me to forget the deep impact our actions have on local families.  I am taking a day this week to fast, to remind myself of what is on the line this weekend.  Perhaps you will consider joining me by fasting one day this week…taking one full day to not eat any food, and allow your body to feel hunger and be denied.  I am asking God to remind me through my hunger.  I need to remember, to know my actions this Saturday matter more than I know or feel.

Looking forward to our community impact this Saturday.

-Cory Lebovitz

**You can find this originally at Cory’s blog.