Increase Your Vocabulary, End World Hunger

Tonight we are taking a look at how we can step into action to be the hands and feet of Jesus around the world... especially those areas where there is a significant amount of poverty, physical needs, and spiritual darkness.

We are going to try to present them with practical steps students have taken as well as guide them to resources that could help them in their efforts.

One very cool site I ran across through Steve Argue's blog is one of those resources we will present.

Freerice.com is a site that tests your vocabulary. For every word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through United Nations to help end world hunger.

It may seem like it's not much, but check out the daily amounts donated so far...

Date	Grains of Rice
7 October 2007	830
8 October 2007	5,670
9 October 2007	76,020
10 October 2007	287,960
11 October 2007	4,584,100
12 October 2007	3,541,350
13 October 2007	3,194,630
14 October 2007	4,343,350
15 October 2007	6,403,920
16 October 2007	6,645,520
17 October 2007	12,157,010
18 October 2007	26,703,160
19 October 2007	40,373,060
20 October 2007	16,175,550
21 October 2007	13,276,900
22 October 2007	26,881,930
23 October 2007	30,423,770
24 October 2007	37,670,700
25 October 2007	30,819,620
26 October 2007	29,607,480
27 October 2007	37,056,070
28 October 2007	42,153,550
29 October 2007	48,720,340
30 October 2007	56,893,100
31 October 2007	59,167,790
1 November 2007	52,142,290
2 November 2007	45,925,390
3 November 2007	45,760,870
4 November 2007	48,038,530
5 November 2007	53,847,080
6 November 2007	73,566,480
7 November 2007	75,201,580
8 November 2007	77,126,310
9 November 2007	63,253,810
10 November 2007	122,377,240
11 November 2007	136,236,930
12 November 2007	188,987,290
13 November 2007	192,744,570
	___________
	1,712,371,750

The other cool part is that this is a great site for High School students preparing for SATs or just trying to increase their vocabulary.

Go, check it out. Link to it. Spread the word!