Faith, a Fragile Planet, Hungry People!

 Saturday, October 07, 2017

Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Davis, CA

9:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Presented by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Network

Learn how faith and environmental justice are intertwined in a hungry world!  This hunger  education workshop, by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Network, explores the life-saving work of the ELCA Hunger and Disaster Appeals, how climate change and other environmental issues impact world and domestic hunger and how you can learn to be an effective advocate for our fragile planet.  We are willing to present a parallel children’s program upon request

¨ Speaker, Pastor Dan Smith: Pastor Dan is currently serving as pastor at Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Davis, CA.  Dan’s Doctoral Dissertation is entitled, “Toward a Lutheran Theology of Nature: An Ecological Ethics of the Cross.”  One of his great concerns and passions is helping the church go green and move toward a more sustainable way of living with the planet. 

¨ Speaker, Ruth Ivory-Moore: ‎Ruth is Program Director, for Environment and Energy at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).  She is responsible for guiding and carrying out the church’s public witness on international climate change issues; and domestic issues related to the environment , energy, agriculture, food production, and rural development. 

¨ Rev. Eileen Smith Levan calls us to action with thought-provoking Bible Study.

¨ Rev. Jason Bense will also lead us in closing worship.  

¨ Asante Fair-Trade Products will be available for Christmas shopping! 

Offering at closing worship will be to the ELCA Hunger Appeal.  Make offering checks to ELCA Hunger Appeal.  An optional social hour follows.  Only $10 for the day, including lunch; no charge for congregational hunger contacts, college students or seminarians.  If you take AMTRAK California, rides to the workshop will be provided. Questions?  Contact Edie Lott atthelotts@gmail.com or (530) 582-5362.

Register by mail to Edie Lott, 10435 Royal Crest, Truckee CA 96161, or register by email atthelotts@gmail.com and pay any fees when you arrive.  If you register by email, please provide the information requested on the linked registration flyer.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwpW6Jm399hbTldzQ211S2hGTkU/view?usp=sharing

I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me?? Hunger, the Refugee and The Immigrant

I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me??

Hunger, the Refugee and The Immigrant

 Saturday, October 15, 2016

Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Davis, CA

9:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Presented by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Network

 Learn how faith and justice are intertwined in a hungry world!  This educational workshop by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger     Network explores both the life-saving work of the ELCA Hunger and Disaster Appeals, and how the immigration and refugee crisis impacts world and domestic hunger.   If there is an interest, a parallel children’s program will be offered. 

¨ Keynote Speaker: Johanna Olson,  ELCA Global Mission Manager for Relationships for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, shares stories of ELCA World Hunger and ELCA Disaster Response involvement in the global refugee crisis.

¨ Speaker:  Pastor Susan Birkelo, Director of the Community Information Center for Migrant Assistance, in Watsonville, CA shares stories of hunger and poverty experienced by immigrants right here in California!

¨ Hear recent immigrants tell their own stories.

¨ Bible Study Leader: Rev. Tita Valeriano calls us to action with thought-provoking Bible Study

¨ Rev. Tita Valeriano will also lead us in closing worship and music of justice and mercy.  

¨ Asante Fair-Trade Products will be available for Christmas shopping! 

Offering at closing worship will be to the ELCA Hunger Appeal.  Make offering checks to ELCA Hunger Appeal.  An optional social hour follows.  Only $10 for the day, including lunch; no charge for congregational hunger contacts, college students or seminarians.  If you take AMTRAK California, rides to the workshop will be provided. Questions?  Contact Edie Lott at thelotts@gmail.com or (530) 582-5362.

Register by email at thelotts@gmail.com and pay any fees when you arrive.

"I Was Hungry, I was Thirsty, I was in Prison and ….." Saturday, October 24, 2015 Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Davis, CA

 

Don't miss this exciting workshop!  Learn how faith and justice are intertwined in a hungry world!  This educational workshop by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Network explores both the life-saving work of the ELCA Hunger Appeal, and how reforming mass incarceration policies and practices is crucial to ending hunger and poverty in this country.  “The Church and Criminal Justice: Hearing the Cries,”  our ELCA Social Statement adopted in 2013, calls us to reflection and action on poverty, racism, and crime.  

http://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Criminal-Justice.  

We are very excited to have Laura Magnani, Director of American Friends Service Committee’s Bay Area Healing Justice Program in California as a keynote speaker .  She has worked on criminal justice issues for over 35 years. She co-authored the AFSC publication, “Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System."  Also featured are Dr. Ryan Cumming, Hunger Education Director of the ELCA World Hunger Appeal, sharing the lifesaving work of the ELCA Hunger Appeal around the globe, and Rev. Tita Valeriano as worship and bible study leader.  Asante Fair-Trade Products will be available for early Christmas shopping!

The cost is only $10 for the day, including lunch; no charge for congregational hunger contacts, college students or seminarians.  If you take AMTRAK California, rides to the workshop will be provided.  Questions?  Contact Edie Lott at thelotts@gmail.com or (530) 582-5362.

Workshop Registration Flyer

Planting Letters-Harvesting Justice

Planting Letters-Harvesting Justice

Saturday, October 4, 2014 

Epiphany Lutheran Church

16248 Carolyn Street, San Leandro, CA 94578

9:00 A.M. to 1:00 p.m. 

With Mini-Film Festival from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Presented by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Network and 

Bread for the World California

Advocacy training that will problem solve and strengthen your ability to Facilitate a vibrant advocacy ministry in Your congregation!

If there is an interest, a parallel children's program will be offered. 

* Workshop Presenter: David Gist, California Organizer for Bread for the World
* Asante Fair-Trade African Products will be available for Christmas shopping!
* Mini-Film Festival: After the Advocacy Training and lunch a mini film festival will be offered from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. featuring films and trailers of important food and water justice films you can use in your congregation's hunger ministry.

Offering at closing devotions will be split between Bread for the World and the ELCA Hunger Appeal. Make offering checks to Sierra Pacific Synod. 

Registration only $10 including lunch; no charge for congregational hunger contacts, college students or seminarians. 

A shuttle to the workshop will be offered from the Bay Fair BART Station. Questions? Contact Edie Lott at thelotts@gmail.com or (530) 582-5362 to register.

Feeding the Hungry Poor Abundantly with Healthy Food

“When you gather the harvest of your land, you are not to harvest to the very end of the field.  You are not to gather the gleanings of the harvest.  You are neither to strip your vine bare, nor to collect the fruit that has fallen in your vineyard.  You must leave them for the poor and the stranger:  I am Yahweh your God.”  Leviticus 19: 9-10

God was clear.  Whether the harvests were abundant or poor, His people had to share what they grew with the hungry poor.  They could not keep it all for their own families.  The poor must have access to a healthy diet of whole grains, fruit and olive oil, the same healthy foods the farmers themselves ate.  

Today as in biblical times it is important that we not only provide food for the poor, but that we provide healthy food.  To learn more about donating healthier food to food banks and soup kitchens follow this link, Donating Healthy Food to Food Banks.

Food Faith and a Field Trip

Save this date:  Saturday, October 12, 2013 for "Food Faith and a Field Trip" hunger education workshop.  It will be held at Incarnation Lutheran Church in Davis, CA.  More information to follow.  Questions, contact Edie Lott at thelotts@gmail.com.

We Can Do It: Changing the World One Mosquito Net and Hungry Child at a Time

Save this date:

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Davis, CA

9:30 to 3:00

Presented by the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Network

Hear about the ELCA Malaria Campaign and the difference it is making in Africa, where a child dies every 45 seconds from Malaria.  Learn how to get  your congregation involved from inspiring speakers Rev. Howie and Mary Wennes.  

Richard and Linda Knapp will share stories from their recent trip to view and experience the ELCA Hunger Program’s life saving work in Haiti. 

Rev. Tita Valeriano, will call us to action through a thought provoking Bible Study.

An optional social hour will follow.  Timing of speakers will allow AMTRAK California transportation.  Cost for the day, including lunch, is $10.00.  If you are a congregational hunger contact or a seminarian, there is no charge.  You will walk away inspired, changed, and alive with ideas to implement and resources to share!  If you have questions contact Edie Lott at thelotts@gmail.com or (530) 582-5362.

Click here for a registration flyer.

ELCA Hunger Appeal Giving Is Down!!!

You can help raise money for and awareness about ELCA World Hunger!  Hold an offering in your congregation now! For information and resources go to http://elca.org/hunger.  For a speaker in the Sierra Pacific Synod email thelotts@gmail.com.

Congregation Connections

Looking for ideas to promote the ELCA Hunger Appeal in your congregation? By clicking on this link to Congregation Connections you can access many ideas and ways to expand your hunger ministry.

Have An Asante Network Sale at Your Church!

ASANTE means Thank you in Swahili

There is an adage that goes something like this: “If you want to make someone independent, don’t just give her a fish; teach her how to fish.” The Asante Network knows of women in Tanzania and Uganda who have not only learned how to fish, but have nets, already filled with fish. The “fish” in their nets are hand-woven baskets, beautiful textile products and other unique crafts. These women aren’t asking for a handout. However, they do need a helping hand. What they have need of is someone willing to find and develop a market in which they can sell their products.

Asante Network began in 2002 when members of the Sierra Pacific Synod Hunger Committee and speakers for Stand with Africa project were led in God’s mysterious way to the Women’s Groups in Uganda and later in Tanzania. In 2005 Asante Network applied for and received 501 (3) c status. In 2007 Fair Trade status was received through the Fair Trade Federation.

Beautiful and well-made baskets, batik and tye-dyed textiles (clothing, tablecloths, bedcovers, and wall hangings,) and hand-carved crafts are purchased directly by Asante Network from the Miichi Women’s Group in Tanzania and NEEPU Women’s Group in Uganda. The money the women receive help them to feed their families, to send their children to school, to support their church and to support AIDS orphans. Additional funds raised help to build classrooms, provide scholarships, books and tools.

Volunteers love to speak to church groups to tell the stories of our sisters and brothers in Africa and how our work with them has changed our lives. Kathy and Stan Booker from Alameda and Pat Daily from Pleasant Hill travel to various churches to set up an African Bazaar and give presentations in their effort to help end hunger.

You can help too by contacting one of the volunteers to schedule an Asante Network Arts and Craft Fair and presentation at your church for a Mission Sunday, Women’s Luncheon, Mother/Daughter Lunch, Black History Event, Alternate Christmas Fair or just to support our work in helping empty the women’s “nets” in Tanzania and Uganda so that they continue to be self-supporting. This work really makes a difference in these women’s lives and in our lives.

Click on this link to go to their website: Asante Network

Kathy and Stan Booker Pat Daily
kbooker817@comcast.net  patwirgdaily@gmail.com

Hold an ELCA Hunger Appeal Offering Soon!

Gifts to the ELCA Hunger Appeal are one of the most effective ways your congregation can fight hunger around the globe. You can order many wonderful resources to use in your congregation, and they are all free! Check them out at this website link. http://www.elca.org/hunger/resources/top40.html

Bread For the World

Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, we provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities where we live.

When you join Bread for the World your voice becomes more effective. When writing or calling your members of Congress, you will be joining other Bread for the World members across the country who are also advocating for hungry and poor people.

Bread for the World members make a difference! Year after year, Bread members have won far-reaching changes for hungry and poor people. The U.S. government has doubled funding for effective programs that help developing countries in Africa and other poor parts of the world, and this would not have happened without the persistent advocacy of Bread for the World members. Bread for the World has also helped to strengthen the national nutrition programs, assisting millions of the families in this country who struggle to feed their children.

Join Bread's effective anti-hunger efforts!