April 9th, 2007 - Hunger Awareness Team Meeting
Pastor Dayle mentioned in her Easter sermon that a member of the congregation got a nudge from the Holy Spirit, saw a need, and in just a few weeks we got on board as a congregation with Back Pack Buddies.
I thought about that during as we met tonight. Pastor Fred was a part of the meeting this week and came up with a couple of interesting suggestions.
First, a challenge anyone could participate in.
It is inspired by Governor Ted Kulongoski and his wife, Mary Oberst, planning to spend a week living on food stamps.
It's part of a program to draw attention to Oregon's hunger problem, and the food insecurity experienced by many low-income families. A number of other lawmakers were planning to do the same thing.
A week's worth of food stamps works out to about $21 a person, so the governor and his wife will have $42 to spend for the week.
"I challenge all Oregonians to experience first-hand what thousands of Oregon families go through everyday," said Governor Kulongoski. "Budgeting just $1 a meal each day for food, and trying to make that food nutritious, is a difficult task that sadly is a reality for too many Oregonians and their families."
Pastor Fred's second idea was to have someone from St. Mark’s talk to interested people here at Creator. The church runs a food pantry and we wanted to find out more about the particulars.
We talked about and thanked Vera for her efforts so far in taking the Fair Trade Coffee campaign as a responsibility. There was an open question whether anyone wanted to take on the Stand with Africa Again campaign or if this was something we would even be pushing as a congregation.
Diane talked about keeping up the discipline of steadily working on OFB donations as opposed to trying to take on extra tasks and, in effect, siphoning off energies we could use for OFB into an number of non-local help efforts.
Mary put together a list of potential films for a Creator Movie night. We will pick four from the list and show them on consecutive Wednesdays from the middle of July (July 18th) into August. Everyone was energized by the idea of showing films that had a tie to hunger and poverty.
I thought about that during as we met tonight. Pastor Fred was a part of the meeting this week and came up with a couple of interesting suggestions.
First, a challenge anyone could participate in.
It is inspired by Governor Ted Kulongoski and his wife, Mary Oberst, planning to spend a week living on food stamps.
It's part of a program to draw attention to Oregon's hunger problem, and the food insecurity experienced by many low-income families. A number of other lawmakers were planning to do the same thing.
A week's worth of food stamps works out to about $21 a person, so the governor and his wife will have $42 to spend for the week.
"I challenge all Oregonians to experience first-hand what thousands of Oregon families go through everyday," said Governor Kulongoski. "Budgeting just $1 a meal each day for food, and trying to make that food nutritious, is a difficult task that sadly is a reality for too many Oregonians and their families."
Pastor Fred's second idea was to have someone from St. Mark’s talk to interested people here at Creator. The church runs a food pantry and we wanted to find out more about the particulars.
We talked about and thanked Vera for her efforts so far in taking the Fair Trade Coffee campaign as a responsibility. There was an open question whether anyone wanted to take on the Stand with Africa Again campaign or if this was something we would even be pushing as a congregation.
Diane talked about keeping up the discipline of steadily working on OFB donations as opposed to trying to take on extra tasks and, in effect, siphoning off energies we could use for OFB into an number of non-local help efforts.
Mary put together a list of potential films for a Creator Movie night. We will pick four from the list and show them on consecutive Wednesdays from the middle of July (July 18th) into August. Everyone was energized by the idea of showing films that had a tie to hunger and poverty.
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