Passion Twenty Ten kicked off the year for us this January with a call to global awakening. Passion was held at Philips Arena and the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta with 22,000 in attendance and students representing 37 countries and nearly 1,500 campuses. What incredible story we had the privilege to tell!
Throughout Passion Twenty Ten, the ideas of worship and justice were wed as students engaged in opportunities to impact lives worldwide through the Do Something Now campaign as an act of worship.
The city of Atlanta was greeted by the initial outpouring of tens of thousands of towels and socks for Atlanta’s homeless community that students brought upon arrival to the gathering. By the final day, an overwhelming response to many of the initiatives included:
- World Vision :: $62,160 covers 1-year sponsorships for 148 children & 1,000 kits packaged for AIDS workers
- Bibles Unbound :: $8,198 given to send 8,198 Bibles to East Asia
- CURE International :: $61,555 given to cover 111 surgeries for children with cleft palates in Afghanistan
- OneVerse :: $69,603 given to translate 2,784 verses
- E3 Partners :: $21,663 given to send 138 men to seminary in the Middle East
- Operation Mobilization :: $85,473 given to fund 1 Education Center for the Dalit people in India
- Living Water :: $111,513 given to build 22 wells
- HOPE International :: $59,164 given to fund 295 small business loans to pull women from poverty in Haiti
- Not For Sale :: $83,636 given to build 3 Border Posts to rescue women from the sex trade in Nepal
- Compassion International :: $47,111 covers 1-year sponsorships for 189 children
- Feed My Starving Children :: $16,589 and 108,432 meals packaged for the hungry
- Gobena Coffee :: $21,927 donated to support orphans in Ethiopia
With a goal of $500,000, students far exceeded that goal giving a total of $668,597 in addition to bringing 15,000 towels and 74,000 socks for Atlanta’s homeless. A couple attending gave a matching gift to double that amount to $1,337,194!
You can track along with Passion throughout the year by texting your email address to 30644 and/or join the Passion268Generation Fan Page on Facebook.
Starting in May 2010, Passion will be going to Kiev, Ukraine; London, England; Tokyo, Japan; Hong Kong, China; Manila, Philippines; Sao Paulo, Brazil and Vancouver, Canada. See you there!
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