tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351156102011-04-21T14:33:24.909-07:00Durandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668149965050793130noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115610.post-1159365634881104072006-09-27T07:00:00.000-07:002006-10-24T21:57:32.576-07:00<div style="text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/durandrobinson/outreach/CLD2006small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 182px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/durandrobinson/outreach/CLD2006small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Choosing to slow down long enough</span> to give up one visit at a fast food restaurant per week and donating the cost of that meal to ministry could provide outreach events that make an eternal difference in Europe!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Fasting as a spiritual discipline</span> is a temporary setting aside of normal concerns, (like eating and drinking) in order to concentrate on the spiritual concerns that are too often crowded out of our lives.<br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/durandrobinson/hamburger.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 158px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/durandrobinson/hamburger.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">But why a "fast food fast</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"?</span> Our fast-paced lives depend on fast food restaurants as our "backup plan" when we're too busy to think about what to eat. And chances are good that eating isn't the only thing we're too busy to think about.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Think about the expense.</span> Those of us living in North America understand that buying fast food is like breathing…we hardly notice we're doing it. But we should. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">average person in America spends 42% of their food budget eating out and visits a fast food restaurant 4 times each week.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">*</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Donating the cost of a fast food meal may not seem like much. </span>But if even 100 people would skip a fast food meal per week to fast and pray for the spiritual needs of Europe, over the year we'd see $30,000 and thousands of prayers directed toward the advancement of the Gospel in Europe.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Dear reader,<br />As you browse through this blogsite, I hope you'll get as excited about the Fast Food Fast as I am. </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"My food," said Jesus,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." </span>(John 4:34) </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >May God use it to help us put our </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/durandrobinson/NDRidportrait-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 70px; height: 70px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/durandrobinson/NDRidportrait-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >faith into action for the sake of others in need of the Savior.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Durand Robinson</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Director of <a href="http://www.gemcreativeworks.org/">CreativeWorks</a>, a ministry of <a href="http://www.gemission.org/">Greater Europe Mission</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">*Did you know that:<br /></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Americans spend over 42% of their food money eating out.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">The average family eats out four times a week</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">The average American household (2.6 people) spends $2,434 a year eating out (nearly $12 per visit.)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">The average family of 4 spends $3,362 a year eating out (nearly $18 per visit.)*</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">source: Chicago Tribune (<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-yourmoney-1218spending,1,6314915.story">http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-yourmoney-1218spending,1,6314915.story</a>)</span><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35115610-115936563488110407?l=fastfoodfast.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Durandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668149965050793130noreply@blogger.com