Text Box: Advent Lutheran Church Text Box: Advent World Hunger Committee: Elaine Batterson, Andrea Boushey, Celeste Denecke, Sue Erickson, Kim Fogelsong, Gail Kautzman, Diane Krause, Kathy O’Connell, Bev Schultz Text Box: Making Christ Known!

A Ministry of Social Justice by:

Advent Lutheran Church

Mill Creek,  WA
Text Box: Text Box: Advent’s World Hunger Committee: Plans and promotes World Hunger Sundays Promotes the Fair Trade Coffee and Fair Trade Chocolate projects Promotes a monthly food drive for donations to our local Volunteers of America Food Bank Initiates Lutheran World Relief projects and Alternate Giving Ideas Supports the Garden of Giving, where food is grown, harvested and donated to the Food Bank Educates church community about local and global needs and informs via temple talks, Sunday bulletins and newsletters how donations are used locally and globally Meets periodically to plan activities Text Box: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2006), an estimated 275,000 households in the State of Washington live with hunger or the threat of hunger. Locally, the Western Washington Volunteers of America Food Bank serves almost 200 families per day. Demand is great and supply is often small. Advent Lutheran Church collects food for the local food bank on the First Sunday of each month. The Church also grows fresh produce in our Garden of Giving for donation to the food bank. Each year we strive to collect and donate at least 5,000 pounds of food. General Items Needed: Canned Soups & Tomato Sauce Canned Fruits & Vegetables Peanut Butter & Jelly Hot & Cold Cereal Pasta, Macaroni, Ramen Noodles, Rice Chili & Canned Dinners Infant Needs: Formula, Baby Food, Infant Cereal & Diapers Text Box: ELCA World Hunger works through various partner agencies to help people break the cycle of poverty in the U.S. and around the world through programs that: Provide food and shelter in disasters and emergencies Respond to HIV/AIDS crises Help communities dig wells for safe drinking water Support small-scale farmers through Fair Trade Provide advice and resources to develop more productive agriculture Advocate for justice by changing laws and systems and promoting awareness Text Box: Food Drives: collects food donations for local food bank Garden of Giving: grows and harvests food to donate to the needy Souper Bowl of Caring: Advent’s youth collect food and monetary donations from parishioners on Superbowl Sunday School Kits: assemble kits filled with basic school supplies Health Kits: assemble kits that contain basic personal hygiene items 40-Day Hunger Calendar: distributes a calendar with activities your family can do to raise your hunger awareness Fair Trade Coffee and Chocolate Project: sells Fair Trade coffee and chocolate, which helps to sustain small-scale farmers Text Box: Shop for the food bank when you do your grocery shopping Buy Fair Trade products for yourself or as a gift for someone else Shop for school and health kit supplies Pull weeds, plant or pick vegetables in the Garden of Giving Sew quilts or donate material to the Piece Makers Donate money to World Hunger during World Hunger Sundays Offer to serve on the World Hunger or Garden Committee Participate in an Alternative Giving Program (visit: https://www.elca.org/good gifts)

How Can I Help?

Providing

Support and Food Around the World

Mission Statement:

Because God asks us to love our neighbor as Christ loves us,

Because we live in a global neighborhood, with neighbors near and far who suffer hunger and  oppression,

Because the Holy Spirit calls us to share in God’s continuing care for all people,

 

We will:

Strive to alert the church        community to various needs in both the global and local         community,

Seek to provide avenues through which the church community can respond to these needs, and

Facilitate learning experiences about the realities of hunger, the causes of hunger, and about      disasters and disaster relief.

For more information, visit:

 

ELCA World Hunger

www.elca.org/hunger

 

Lutheran World Relief

www.lwr.org
Text Box: Contact your World Hunger Committee Advent Lutheran Church Mill Creek, WA Committee Chairperson - Celeste Denecke, advent_lutheran@verizon.net church office: 425.337.5373

ELCA World

Hunger Relief

Updated 01/08, reformatted for Web 03/08

 
Text Box: The World Hunger Committee is the local arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) World Hunger Appeal. Its mission is to improve the lives of people affected by hunger and poverty in the U.S. and around the world