Six St. Peter Lutheran youth members will participate in a 30-hour fast organized by World Vision to raise money for needy children. Photo provided.

The youth of St. Peter Lutheran Church will go 30 hours without eating on Feb. 24-25 as part of a national "30 Hour Famine" organized by World Vision.

The students will go without food in order to experience what is a reality for people around the world who don't have enough to eat because of poverty, war, famine and drought.

Each of the six participants has a goal of raising enough to feed a child for a year through World Vision. Each participant will also have the opportunity to apply for a study tour to a foreign county to see how the money is used.

The participants will sleep in shelters created from cardboard boxes to better understand what people with limited resources must do in order to have a place to sleep.

For more information or to donate to the event, visit www.30hourfamine.org and look for "St. Peter Lutheran Church."

Complete caption: Six St. Peter Lutheran youth members will participate in a 30-hour fast organized by World Vision to raise money for needy children. Participants are (front row, from left) Brianna Crider, Ashton Jones and Gillian Hughes and (back row, from left) Thomas Crider, Nolan Hughes and Jordan Jones.