Title: Lutherans Featured in NBC-TV Hunger Documentary ELCA NEWS SERVICE
August 22, 2006
Lutherans Featured in NBC-TV Hunger Documentary 06-127-DW/KH*
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Lutherans are prominently featured in a television documentary to be presented next month by the National Council of Churches USA (NCC). Joe Young, director for community development services for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Church in Society, and the Rev. David Beckmann, ELCA pastor and president, Bread for the World, Washington, D.C., both contributed to "Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts."
The documentary, originally broadcast in 2004, addresses the issue of hunger in the 21st century from the perspective of advocates and faith leaders including: + Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York + U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. + the Rev. John L. McCullough, executive director and CEO, Church World Service, Elkhart, Ind. + the Rev. Kenneth C. Horne, executive director, The Society of St. Andrew, Big Island, Va. + June Kim, executive secretary of world hunger, United Methodist Committee on Relief + George McGovern, former U.S. Senator, D-S.D., and presidential candidate + Joan Holmes, president, The Hunger Project + the Rev. Robert W. Edgar, general secretary, NCC, New York
The one-hour documentary is presented by NCC in partnership with the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission. The program will be available to NBC television network affiliates beginning Sept. 10.
"It is a moral issue that needs immediate resolution," said Burton Buller, president, Mennonite Media, who produced the program in collaboration with the NCC. "The program brings to life the moral dimension of this thorny issue, and offers up a vision for a new day, when hunger is eradicated from the face of the earth."
In addition to Mennonite Media, the NCC's partners for this production are the ELCA World Hunger Program, the United Methodist Committee on Relief, the Society of St. Andrew and Church World Service, with cooperation from Bread for the World and United Methodist Communication.
The ELCA is a member of NCC, America's leading ecumenical organization. Founded in 1950, the NCC's 35 Protestant and Orthodox member denominations have more than 100,000 congregations in all 50 states.
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The home page for the National Council of Churches is at http://www.ncccusa.org and information about "Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts" is at http://www.councilofchurches.org/hunger/ on the Web.
*Daniel Webster is director of media relations for the National Council of Churches, New York. Katherine R. Hinck is a senior journalism and religion major at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D. This summer Hinck was an intern with the ELCA News Service.
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