tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25790899474079541122024-03-13T04:51:44.840-07:00NW END HUNGER UPDATEYour update for the ELCA Northwest Washington Synod Hunger Committee. including info on World and Domestic Hunger, Lutheran World Relief, the ONE Lutheran program and BREAD for the World.Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-59934367089577871662011-11-22T09:01:00.001-08:002011-11-22T09:01:44.723-08:00Faith Action Network Update....partnering with LPPO<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr> <td class="td1" valign="middle"> <div class="p1">An Update for the Synod Hunger Team from the Faith Action Network</div><div class="p1">Your ELCA State Public Policy Office</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">At the September 2011 Synod Hunger Team meeting, team members asked the Faith Action Network for an e-news article to provide recipients with a brief update about the FAN merger, and to highlight two or three hunger-related legislative priorities for the year. We send this update with gratitude for the opportunity to re-connect, and to join our energies with yours to create the legislative victories that will reduce hunger in our state and nation.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The Faith Action Network absolutely remains your ELCA Washington State Public Policy Office, enjoying robust local, synodical and churchwide connections. LPPO's merger with the Washington Association of Churches continues the powerful work of both organizations by broadening our network and increasing our resources. The ELCA has a strong tradition of partnering with ecumenical and interfaith bodies, and we are proud to strengthen that tradition while remaining rooted in our baptismal vocation to "strive for peace and justice in all the earth." </div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">If you have made financial contributions to LPPO in the past, we thank you and ask you to continue your giving. If you have not, we invite you to do so! You may continue to send financial gifts to: Faith Action Network, 766 John St, Suite B, Seattle, WA 98109. There is also a giving button on our website at <span class="s1">www.fanwa.org</span>.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">And now for some hunger-related legislative updates!</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">1. 2011 Legislative Success Threatened</div><div class="p2">In the 2011 session LPPO and WAC, along with their anti-poverty allies, were successful in sustaining funding for the WIC/FMNP (Women, Infants, and Children/Farmers Market Nutrition Program). Funding for this small but important program was to be "zeroed out" in the second year of the 2011-13 biennium, but we took the lead to restore fall funding for the second year of the biennium. This program will be threatened again this year, and we will need your voices to persuade legislators to keep it going strong!</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">2. Meals for Kids Coalition</div><div class="p2">FAN is currently a partner, along with the Children's Alliance and the Washington State Nutrition Association, in a Meals for Kids Coalition. We are attempting to increase access to free school meals for children from low-income households. Currently, depending upon household income, families either pay full price, reduced price, or receive lunches free. Cuts threaten $6.8 million that was used to establish the free tier. Our strategy is to preserve the $6.8 million and the free tier, and remove the reduced price tier so that more families will qualify for free lunches in these difficult economic times.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Since Kari wrote this for us in September, be sure and check our the FAN webpage for the latest development.</div><div class="p1"><br />
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</tbody> </table><div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-7946121859387142352011-11-22T09:00:00.001-08:002011-11-22T09:00:45.912-08:00Kent Lutheran working with Sudan<div class="p1">Follow Kent Lutherans exciting outreach partnership with the 40 Sudanese who worship with them. Sand Water Filters, Shoes, Misson Trips, you name it. More details on their blog</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-1054151802963194962010-03-07T20:27:00.000-08:002010-03-07T20:27:19.344-08:00Response Ability BuildersResponse Ability Builders......This exciting ministry was started by a Lutheran pastor, Eddy, and involves building and teaching others to build emergency housing. Watch here for more from Eddy as this ministry develops and as he visits Haiti to see the doors open for temporary housing there.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-998096730748089592009-10-28T22:39:00.001-07:002010-03-07T20:24:25.069-08:00Taking Root...... learn so you can share...Take time to learn more about the ELCA Hunger Program's new resource Taking Root, a complete curriculum for your congregation, with programming for children and youth, easily adapted for adults and multi generational groups.<br />
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Information on the ELCA Hunger site. This is powerful material.<br />
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If you want some hands on introduction call Bob or Carol Wall or Kristie Neklason. Kristie's email is on this page and reach the Walls at carolhage@gmail.com or bobcwall@gmail.com We are available to come to your congregation and do a sample class or even to come to tell your congregation about the Hunger Appeal<div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-68265126543789624112008-11-26T10:05:00.000-08:002008-11-26T10:06:51.932-08:00Subscribe to Hunger Rumblings...2 posts hereinSign up to receive <em>Hunger Rumblings </em>blog postings (like the two below) in your e-mail inbox. Visit <a href="http://blogs.elca.org/hungerrumblings/" target="_blank">http://blogs.<wbr>elca.org/hungerrumblings/</a> , then click on the "Subscribe by Email" link found in the left-hand column under "Tools for You."<br /> <table style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px;"><a title="(http://blogs.elca.org/hungerrumblings/)" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 22px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" href="http://blogs.elca.org/hungerrumblings/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;">Hunger Rumblings</span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><a style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/HungerRumblings/%7E3/457701868/i-am-resolvedare-you.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;">I am resolved...are you?</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></h1> <div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px;"> <p style="margin: 9px 0px 3px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 140%; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><strong>"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom"</strong></em> (Psalm 90:12). "Wake up!" says the Psalmist, "For you own good get smart and change now.life is short!"<br /><strong><em>Only 27 shopping days until Christmas!</em></strong> What irony! Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve we are regularly reminded to number our days.our shopping days.<br />Maybe our current economic realities can serve as a wake up call to get smart and change shopping-as-usual, for our own good and the good of the world. To that end, I resolve to:<br />1) <strong>Buy nothing the day after Thanksgiving</strong> (November 28). Search online for "Buy Nothing Day" to learn more about this unofficial, loosely organized, counter-cultural movement.<br />2) <strong>Give up malls and mega stores for Advent.</strong> I do this because I'm an impulse buyer, easily sucked in by twinkly lights and colorful displays.<br />3) <strong>Step up my charitable giving.</strong> Our economic times are tough, to be sure, and tough economic times are surely hardest on people who already vulnerable. These are the perfect times, then, to step up and give an <em>extra</em> donation to your congregation; to churchwide ministries like the ELCA World Hunger Appeal and ELCA Vision for Mission; and to the other ministries, agencies, and organizations that count on your support. Through ELCA Good Gifts (</span><a href="http://www.elca.org/giving" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;">www.elca.org/giving</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">) charitable donations are transformed into really good Christmas presents.<br />4) <strong>Give value-full gifts.</strong> I will expect <em>a lot</em> from the gifts I give. They will be some combination of the following:<br />* A gift donation, like ELCA Good Gifts<br />* locally grown, raised, produced, or sold<br />* needed <em>and </em>wanted<br />* eco-friendly<br />* consumable<br />* hand made<br />* recycled, reused, repurposed<br />* Fair Trade<br /><em>Are you resolved? What have you promised yourself as we count the days until Christmas?</em></span></p></div></td> <td width="1%"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p style="margin: 1em 0px 3px; line-height: 115%;"><a style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/HungerRumblings/%7E3/457725044/i-am-resolved-resources.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;">"I am resolved" resources</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;"><a href="http://blogs.elca.org/hungerrumblings/uploaded_images/MomandSuePraying-747287.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 320px; height: 220px;" alt="" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=88e1480b70&view=att&th=11db5c8b2805980f&attid=0.1.1&disp=emb&zw" border="0" /></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> I wrote an article about my 30-year journey to get Christmas gift-giving "right" for the December issue of </span></span><a href="http://www.lutheranwomantoday.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Lutheran Woman Today </span></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">magazine.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"> This article won't be featured on the LWT Web site until December, but you can get a sneak peak. The </span></span><a href="http://www.elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Ministry/Women-of-the-ELCA/Lutheran-Woman-Today/Articles/2008/December/Susie-Says.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">online version </span></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(</span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/susiesays" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://tinyurl.com/susiesays</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">) <span style="font-size: 85%;">doesn't include the picture, so I'm sharing it here. My dad took this picture of me with my mom, my first book of prayers, and my beloved stuffed cat [un]creatively named "Kitty." </span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">There are many resources to help "keep the reason for the season" during Advent and Christmas, notably <em><strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/order08Birthday" target="_blank">Whose birthday is it, anyway?</a></strong> </em>by our friends at </span></span><a href="http://www.simpleliving.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Alternatives for Simple Living.</span></span></a></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Don't forget the Pentecost (see pages 2, 3, 10) and the Advent--Easter (see pages 3, 4, 5) editions of ELCA World Hunger's </span></span><a href="http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Responding-to-the-World/ELCA-World-Hunger/Resources/For-Congregations/Congregation-Connections.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Congregation Connections</span></span></em></strong></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></em></strong></span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The current issue of ELCA World Hunger's </span></span><a href="http://www.elca.org/hunger/top40" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Top 40 Resources</strong> </span></span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">catalog highlights our Christmas card, resources connected to ELCA Good Gifts and God's Global Barnyard, and other gifts-and-giving helps.</span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Thankful blessings,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Sue Edison-Swift</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-42924917626960448662007-08-31T08:07:00.000-07:002007-08-31T08:09:18.065-07:00One day,one meal, one dollar... by Jason Mendoza<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">NW Washington couple take the ELCA Food Stamp <span class="st">Challenge</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Jason Mendoza and his girlfriend Krista Oppie worship at <st1:placename st="on">Maple</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st="on">Leaf</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st="on">Lutheran</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> in north <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Seattle</st1:place></st1:City>. Krista is part of the Synod Hunger Team and attended the Hunger Leaders Conference/GME this summer where the idea of the taking the ELCA Food Stamp Challenge (see details at end of this article). Krista is also heading for Luther Seminary this fall.<span style=""> </span>Here is their story.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p><br /> </o:p></span><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">One day, one meal, one dollar<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br />When presented with this challenge I looked at it like a vulture looks at fresh meat. I had plans, I had recipes and I was determined. I went to culinary school and know how took price food as well as cook. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""> </span>Day one started off<span style=""> </span>with a couple slices of bread and some cheese and for lunch a nice scramble of fried stale bagel chunks with herbs eggs and tomatoes before my girlfriend and I parted ways to go to work. We both noticed we were pretty hungry and by the time dinner rolled around it was hard to concentrate and before I knew it, on the first day, all that careful planning had ended up in a quick run to the store for a cup of over salted instant noodles. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p>For the next four days we found ourselves growing hungrier with each meal as well as irritable, the food was good but we had to make it with<span style=""> </span>what we could afford...which was, most of the time, the same thing we had had staggered through the previous days. <br /><br />Ashamedly on the second to last day of the experiment unable to weather anymore quiche or peanut butter curry we called it quits for health and sanity's sake. So was this experiment accurate? yes and no. A lot of people can and<br />must live like this, the greatest reason we failed is that our bodies were in shock, we had been eating so well in the weeks prior that our bodies couldn't adjust fast enough. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""> </span>At the end of the week we met with friends and community members at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Maple</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st="on">Leaf</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st="on">Lutheran</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> to discuss Dollar Challenge and share a dollar meal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p> Over the course of the five days I made it a point to say there are ways feed yourself and your family in a way that are healthier than the fast and fatty diets that haunt us and, after the chatting and sharing of experiences over that meal it is clear that to ask anyone to live in this country for a dollar per meal per person is nothing short of <script> <!-- D(["mb","\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>ludicrous.\u003cbr\>\u003c/div\>\n",0] ); D(["mi",8,2,"114bc5c5c0bf6045",0,"0","Carol Wall","Carol","carolhage@gmail.com",[[] ,[["Jason","splankinoff@hotmail.com","114bc5c5c0bf6045"] ] ,[] ] ,"7:39 am (7 minutes ago)",["Jason Mendoza \u003csplankinoff@hotmail.com\>"] ,[] ,[] ,[] ,"Aug 31, 2007 7:39 AM","Re: The dollar challenge commentary","",[] ,1,,,"Fri Aug 31 2007_7:39 AM","On 8/31/07, Carol Wall \u003ccarolhage@gmail.com\> wrote:","On 8/31/07, \u003cb class\u003dgmail_sendername\>Carol Wall\u003c/b\> <carolhage@gmail.com> wrote:","gmail.com",,,"","",0,,"\u003c58497bb90708310739q1904a8acof2342cf6713799f0@mail.gmail.com\>",0,,0,"In reply to \"The dollar challenge commentary\"",0] ); D(["mb","Thanks Jason. This is great. Please keep connected. Im going to put you on our list of Hunger Contacts so you can at least know whats going on.\u003cbr\>It was really good to meet you. You have a wonderful spirit.\u003cbr\>Peace\u003cbr\>\nCarol",1] ); //--> </script>ludicrous.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Artiicle submitted by Jason Mendoza * <span style=""> </span>August 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""></span>Below is the program introduced at the Hunger leaders workshop and presented here by Sue Edison-Swift.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Can $1 Curb Your Hunger?<br />Take the ELCA Food Stamp <span class="st">Challenge</span> and find out!<br /><br />Each month about 25 million people in the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> participate in the nation's largest nutrition program: Food Stamps. The reality for many folks who participate in the Food Stamp program is that the average benefit of $1 per-person, per-meal is not nearly enough and many healthy food choices are out of reach.<br /><br />This fall, Congress will reauthorize or write a new U.S. Farm Bill. The Food Stamp program is part of the Farm Bill so now is our chance to make needed comprehensive reform happen. We can help family farmers and reduce hunger for millions of Americans!<br /><br />Here's what you can do.<br /><br />+ Take The Food Stamp <span class="st">Challenge</span>: Can $1 curb your hunger? The <span class="st">challenge</span> before you is to live for one week on the national average Food Stamp benefit of $1 per-person, per-meal. Try serving a Food Stamp <span class="st">Challenge</span> meal for your congregation or community. What will you eat? How will you feel? Is it healthy? Are you hungry?<br /><br />+ Make Your Voice Heard: Call or write your member of Congress and ask her/him to make sure that the per-meal benefit for the Food Stamp program is raised so low-income families can purchase healthy foods like fresh fruits and vegetables. This can help local farmers, too! More and more farmers markets are accepting payment with Food Stamps.<br /><br />+ Share Your Gifts: Help hungry neighbors around the world and close to home by giving generously to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Consider sharing the money you saved in food costs by participating in the Food Stamp <span class="st">Challenge</span>. Give online at <a href="http://www.elca.org/giving" target="_blank">www.elca.org/giving</a> or call 1-800-638-3522<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><script> <!-- D(["ce"]); //--> </script><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579089947407954112.post-38122141960285832952007-04-23T20:06:00.000-07:002007-04-23T20:08:34.684-07:00ONE Lutheran congregation<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your congregation can be a ONE Lutheran congregation. Check it out at www.elca.org/advocacy<br />Make it your 2007 goal<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Working in community to end world hunger...</div>Carol Hage Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584655658167228117noreply@blogger.com0