wfn.org | Winter 2008-2009 ELCA World Hunger Resource Packet now available

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>ELCA News Blog

>November 14, 2008  

Winter 2008-2009 ELCA World Hunger Resource Packet now available

>by Melissa Ramirez Cooper, ELCA News Service

To equip the 4.7 million members of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA) to help end hunger in the world, an
ELCA World Hunger Resource Packet is now available.  The packet
contains a variety of resources to help Lutherans learn more
about the causes of world hunger and work together to end it.

Available twice a year, the packet illustrates how ELCA World
Hunger is a connected, comprehensive and compassionate program
that helps individuals and communities rise above poverty into
self-sufficiency, said Sue Edison-Swift, communication director,
ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal.  "The program is
connected because it's relationship-driven.  It's comprehensive
because there are many causes to hunger, so solutions need to be
equally diverse, and it's also compassionate because it focuses
on meeting the needs of the most vulnerable," she said.

New resources in the packet include a congregational bulletin
about water; Taking Root -- a hunger education curriculum for
children and youth; and 1-2-3 Contact! -- a sign-up form to
receive the resource packet and/or LifeLines by mail.  The
packet also includes the 2007-2009 ELCA Good Gifts giving
catalog; reproducible stories for bulletins and newsletters
that show how gifts to the ELCA World Hunger and Disaster
Appeal make a difference in the lives of people; and "God's
Math 40-day calendar" designed to raise awareness, commitment
and funds for the ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal and
Stand With Africa.  It also carries copies of Congregation
Connections and ELCA World Hunger Top 40 Resource Catalog,
two popular resources updated every year.

For information contact:

John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org
http://www.elca.org/news
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