December 11th, 2006 - Hunger Awareness Meeting

We opened with prayer and began by reviewing the content and success of the Hunger Awareness Committee's Adult Education hours so far and tried to plan the upcoming hour.

These sessions gave many of us different perspectives and opened up new conversations about ways we can help out. We want to continue to raise awareness of hunger issues and we will continue to donate to the Oregon Food Bank and to others who need help in our area.

Many action items came up in our monthly meeting. We are planning another Oregon Food Bank work day.

We addressed some of the perspectives from the the Adult Ed hours. Sometimes there can be an "us and them" view when our congregation looks at those in need. We would like to breakdown this view. There is an interest in widening our perspective and our experience and encouraging each other in our journey to follow Jesus' call to care for one another. We hope to establish closer ties with those who are currently involved in helping the hungry. We know of Creator members who are involved in that help and we want to work with them or learn from them.

Pr, Dayle is looking into adding additional language in our liturgy to keep those in need in our thoughts and our hearts. We are also in the planning stages of another hunger awareness event.

A very productive meeting all in all.