Got a poverty project?

Hi everyone,

I am researching what I am told is going to be the cover story for July issue of The Lutheran. The overall focus of the story is the Lutheran response to domestic poverty. The story is to consist of 12 smaller stories about projects across the nation showing this response.

For example, I have a community meal in Charlotte, N.C., that's just huge. I have community gardens in Waverly, Iowa, on home sites where dwellings were destroyed by floods from the Cedar River in 2008.

Here at home, I've chosen to lift up the Winter Hospital Overflow at St. Paul and St. Andrew of Vancouver as among the 12. I can't make this too Washington state-focused, but if you'd like to make your pitch to me, now is the time. I'm looking urban, rural, ethnic. I'd love for some of you doing the Hispanic outreach in Lewis County and south to be included. The projects have to have some kind of link to the ELCA.

I have to turn this monster around pretty fast, so I'm taking several days off my day job next week and the week after, because I want to do this. Make your pitch pretty soon. You can email me at rachelpritchett@msn.com or call me at 206-498-0920. Pictured are some students from Wartburg College in Waverly working on the gardens.

Rachel Pritchett, communicator