Hunger Committee puts on the pressure

Toward the end of the assembly when everyone was tired and some had gone home, members of the synod's Hunger Committwe held an offering of letters event advocating for the poor.

According to Diane Armbrust, co-chair of the committee, more than 100 letters were written to the two U.S. senators from Washington urging them to resist cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

"I was personally moved to watch voting members willingly sitting there at the end of two days of meetings taking the time to write letters," Armbrust said.

Within two days, the letters were on the desks of Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.