FAME Social Media Challenge Supports Global Medical Missions
Christian Missionary Fellowship’s Kenya-bound shipping container is serving a temporary purpose in Indianapolis as FAME uses it for a 40-day social media fundraising challenge. Volunteer teams are spending 24-hour shifts inside the crate while raising money for medical mission projects around the world.
- FAME is hosting volunteer teams in a shipping container for 24-hour fundraising shifts.
- The challenge aims to raise more than $40,000 for global medical mission projects.
- The container will later support Christian Missionary Fellowship’s work in Kenya.
By Jennifer Taylor
In our June 27 issue, we shared news about the KORE Foundation and its work providing resources and vocational training as sustainable alternatives to poverty for the chronically poor in other countries. One of the ministry’s “kore” projects is recycling metal shipping containers entering the Jacksonville, Florida, ports and stocking them with supplies so recipients can begin welding, sewing, or farming businesses.
Later this year, KORE will send a stocked crate to the Christian Missionary Fellowship work in Kenya. But before the container makes the voyage, it’s helping another ministry here in the States—and it’s been housing people for the last month.
A Shipping Container Fundraiser in Indianapolis
Since September, FAME has stored the crate on its property in Indianapolis. Beginning October 1, teams of three or four volunteers have been locked in the crate for 24-hour shifts to raise money for FAME. Each team was challenged to raise at least $1,000 during their 24-hour stay by using Facebook, Twitter, blogs, texting, phone calls, Skype, digital photos, and video. The teams received a new fund-raising challenge each hour.
“We’ll have 40 teams in 40 days,” says Shane Whybrew, director of development at FAME. “We hope this Social Media Challenge will raise more than $40,000 for some amazing projects around the globe.”
Funding Medical Mission Projects
FAME will use the money to purchase an ambulance for a mission in India, renovate an outpatient clinic in Haiti, send medical supplies to Honduras, and provide scholarships for students in Ghana.
The last volunteer team will leave the crate on November 9—just in time for KORE to display the container at the National Missionary Convention in Lexington.
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http://korefoundation.org/
Jennifer Taylor, one of Christian Standard’s contributing editors, lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Read her blog at www.christianstandard.com.
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