Hunger-advocate training to be scheduled

By Rick Nelson, member of the synod's Hunger Committee

 

Members of the Southwestern Washington Synod Hunger Committee soon will hold training workshops for congregational hunger advocates. The training is 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.

A training is tentatively scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 18 in Vancouver; watch the synod blog for details once the site is confirmed. Another training is being planned for a Pacific County church on Jan. 12, and one will be scheduled in early February in Longview.

In other committee news, members met Sept. 22 to review applications for ELCA Hunger Grants. Eight congregations applied for grants totaling $41,000. The committee evaluated the applications and forwarded the recommendations to the churchwide hunger office, which will make final awards, to be announced next spring.