One of the wonderful and exciting things at Passion events, including at Passion 2011, is the Do Something Now displays. Do Something Now is part of the Passion experince, where college students and volunteers at the Passion events can come and help out people in need, by donating money to the causes that have booths set up. Each cause deals with something different, and each dollar donated goes straight toward the cause. The charge at Passion 2011 was to donate $500,000 from the 22,000 college students in attendance. Some of the pictures below are from the Do Something Now experience.
Each of the attendees of Passion 2011 were asked to bring towels and socks to donate to the Homeless shelters of Atlanta through the Touch Atlanta project.
These are just some of the towels that were collected over the four days.
This was the project that helped stop sex trafficking in the Philippines. Each rescue mission would cost approximately $4,500 to rescue 15 girls.
When you donated money for this cause, you had your picture taken and it was placed on a board that had pictures of everyone that helped out this cause. The four of us that stuck together during Passion all donated to this mission.
This is the group of the four of us that all donated money to this mission. It was a wonderful to know we are helping young girls on the other side of the world who so desperately need it.
This was a station where you could spend $1 and pay to send 1 Bible to a person in Colombia where they have never been able to read the Bible because it is not in their language. When you spent your $1 you could write a dedication or prayer in your own language to the person receiving the Bible and also pray over the recipient. This was what these four men were doing.
This station is where students and volunteers could contribute money to help build homes for the victims of the Haiti earthquake over one year ago. One of the stories shared at Passion about a family that experienced the earthquake brought the entire Philips Arena to tears.
This was the display area for the station where money could be donated for those to have not had access to clean water in India.
This is the station that allowed those who wanted to offer to sponsor a child through Compassion International.
This station was for feeding hungry children in Africa who needed help with getting their everyday meals. The bowls hanging overhead were sent to the child that was being sponsored so they could eat from the bowl when they received their food.
This is only a small portion of the overall experience of Do Something Now. The real story of this is incredible. These photos were all taken between 11:15pm and 12:30am the last night we were at Passion 2011. Did you notice all the people around? There were some individuals who waited over an hour in a line in order to contribute money to a cause because they believed in that cause. How incredibly amazing is that?
The thing that is even more incredible is that at 7:45pm Louie Giglio, the founder of Passion events, came onto the stage with amazement in his face. He told us that we, the attendees of Passion 2011 had not met their goal of raising $500,000 but exceeded it in that we had already donated $700,000. Four hours later there were still lines at each of the stations where people wanted to donate money for these causes.
The last morning we were given amounts to say the totals of the money donated at Passion 2011, but people were still flooding the stations even after the last session of Passion. In four days, college students blew the $500,000 goal out of the water! The students of Passion 2011 gave a total of $1,167,249.24 to the causes of Do Something Now.
But it's not about the money but about what you do. It's about how you help others. Helping someone does not include giving money alone, but by talking to them, calling to check on them, or just showing them that you care. It's about doing something, and about doing anything, to show the love of God to them. That's what Do Something Now was all about!
So do something! Do anything! Do it in God's name to show his fame!
Do Something.. Do Anything... Do it NOW!
http://www.dosomethingnow.com
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