January 8th, 2007

For the Hunger Awareness meeting there was a new enthusiasm for a new year. The dynamic has also changed with contributions from our new members Janelle and Sherrie.

We talked about de-emphasizing the goal for food contributions and simply report what was contributed in a given month the year before. Many new ideas were introduced. We discussed keeping the major focus on the Oregon Food Bank contributions.

Volunteer efforts can be tough to organize. It was hard to keep up with assigning people to the action items needed to move our ideas forward as we laid out a 2007 plan for Creator as a congregation in its Hunger Awareness effort.

There were ideas and projects that moved beyond hunger and towards helping the poor. The help is interlocked but we continue to feel we need to be diligent about keeping our focus on hunger.

The earnestness and willingness of this group to jump into the volunteer work is a constant source of inspiration to me.