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!