http://ballforlives.com Using Basketball to Raise Awareness for AIDS Orphans in South Africa Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 30 Hours with no food while doing service projects throughout an entire Saturday?? "It was amazing!!" :) The 30 Hour Famine was an incredible experience that I would recommend to anyone. Check out the pics (Thanks Wit!): 30 Hour Famine Pics Our morning started with prayer and reading 1 John chapters 3 and 4. ... http://ballforlives.com/2010/03/02/30-hour-famine-completed/ Tonight 10 of us from Fairview Gospel Church will begin a period of fasting for 30 hours. Why? Check it out! More info coming on our Monday post-if we make it :) http://ballforlives.com/2010/02/26/the-famine-begins/ One of the most amazing things to me about Christ is how He never gives up on us. How He loves us regardless. His unfailing love is utterly mind-blowing to me. Knowing that I have this from Him makes it easier to love those who I come in contact with. He ... http://ballforlives.com/2010/02/19/meet_hawie/ Ball for Lives started in 2006 with the dream of rescuing African orphans through Bethesda Outreach in South Africa. Yet over the past year we've expanded to work with several other organizations and causes. How does it all fit together? Our focus is still helping Bethesda Outreach rescue African orphans. AIDS is ... http://ballforlives.com/2010/01/29/so-who-does-ball-for-lives-help-anyway/ "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere -- a place where, even before the catastrophic earthquake, nearly 80 percent of the population lived on less than $2 per day."                                                                             --World Vision   If WE got hit with this earthquake, we'd be devastated. Now imagine already having nothing and losing everything.    The word gospel ... http://ballforlives.com/2010/01/14/the-good-news-in-haiti/ 2009 was an incredible year for Ball for Lives! God blessed us in so many ways as we labored to rescue African orphans and children in poverty around the world. But how do we, people who live comfortably in the United States, rescue orphans from poverty? We do it by benefitting other non-profit organizations that are working in areas of extreme poverty. God has connected ... http://ballforlives.com/2010/01/06/2009-ball-for-lives-donation-total/ Imagine buying Christmas gifts that were made in Africa, by the very people Ball for Lives exists to support! Check out this video from Invisible Children, a group that has started a phenomenal movement to end Africa's longest running civil war:  Christmas Eve is a week away!! Need a last minute gift? Why not buy ... http://ballforlives.com/2009/12/16/last-minute-life-changing-christmas-gifts/ Did you see our last post explaining the X Fund? If not, check it out here. Imagine the people in your youth group, Sunday School class, or small group encouraging each other in the pursuit of sexual purity WHILE rescuing child prostitutes around the world. Now imagine this effort you've started ... http://ballforlives.com/2009/12/09/bringing-the-x-fund-to-your-church/ An incredible way to see the potential of your life is to look at the opportunities you have from someone else's point of view. This video is an extrememly powerful look at the world from millions of kids across the globe: Imagine from LOVE146 on Vimeo. How does this video make you ... http://ballforlives.com/2009/12/08/the-x-fund/ 4-One's first Open Run and Main Event at Memorial High School in West New York, NJ was a huge success! Over 50 students and faculty members from MHS played in the Open Run tournament, and about 500 people came to see the Main Event game. Check out these Open Run Pics !   [caption id="attachment_209" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Over ... http://ballforlives.com/2009/11/19/4-one-mhs-open-run/