Date changed for advocates-against-hunger training

A training session for  congregational hunger advocates tentatively scheduled for Nov. 18 and been rescheduled for Dec. 8 in Vancouver.

Members of the Southwestern Washington Synod Hunger Committee soon will hold training workshops for congregational hunger advocates as part of the committee’s work to implement a synod assembly resolution to increase awareness of and participation in the ELCA’s World Hunger Program.

The committee has been recruiting people to be hunger-program advocates in congregations. Advocates’ activities would include prayer, speaking with pastors and leaders about hunger issues, and using ELCA Hunger Packets to promote hunger related activities in congregations. Hunger committee members will hold training workshops in their regions to review available materials and to present a slide program about the hunger program.

The first training is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 18 in at Messiah Lutheran Church. Another training is being planned for a Pacific County church on Jan. 12, and one will be scheduled in early February in Longview. — Rick Nelson, ernelson@teleport.com