Doughnuts, chocolate muffins, juice and fruit lined cabinets in Room C117 as the hungry rolled in, filling plates with their first nourishment in 30 hours.

Not all 95 participants in the 30 Hour Famine broke the fast during the celebration Wednesday morning, but they did raise $960 for World Vision International. The Washington-based organization provides humanitarian aid to children and communities.

Senior organizers Maddy Hornburg and Hope Schievelbein set out cookies and French toast casserole, and Family and Community Services adviser Tina Olcott arranged food and poured juice.

Junior Jocelyn Moody filled her plate and began eating.

“I wanted to do (the famine) for the hungry in the world,” Moody said, “and I wanted to see how strong I could be.”

Bryce Measures, youth minister at Riverside Community Church, delivered a message of hope.

“You may have stepped into something, reached something you weren’t expecting,” he said. “You recognized something was broken in the world; there are children in the world who need help. That questioning is the beginning of the process. It’s only the beginning.”

Measures compared the 30-hour fast to the 40 days Christ spent in the desert.

“When we try to fix what is broken, the enemy comes and tries to provide a shortcut,” he said. “Testing always comes with temptation and robs you of what is coming to you.”

The event also tested Olcott in her first year as sponsor.

“I believe it was a great success,” she said. “We had students excited and wanted to know when it was going to happen.”

Junior Fallon Heintz said she realized people take food for granted.

“We eat way too much, and we eat out of boredom,” she said. “I think it’s crazy that people eat out of necessity, and we eat out of boredom.”