ELCA  Assistance  in World Food Emergency

     With the price of food rising, especially in the world’s poorest regions, members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will send an initial $100,000 to companion churches and partner relief agencies to provide food to vulnerable people and to strengthen development work in rural communities.  ELCA International Disaster Response allocated $50,000 and the other half of the amount will come from money the ELCA World Hunger Appeal received in addition to reaching its goal for 2007.

 

     The high cost of energy that makes it more expensive to produce food, increasing demand in emerging economies, the use of grain as a fuel source and weather - drought and floods in different regions that have damaged crops - and food security issues are factors in a global food crisis.

      ELCA Global Mission has consistently and persistently addressed many of these factors in its year-in and year-out work to reduce hunger and poverty.  Rural development and food security issues have been key elements to the World Hunger work.

      Thanks to the amazing generosity of ELCA members and congregations, we have the capacity to expand our response to this crisis.  In the midst of this crisis the members of the church are asked to pray for children, the elderly and all those most vulnerable to this crisis, to give a special gift to ELCA Disaster Response to respond where food aid is most needed, and to combat the rood causes of chronic poverty and hunger.

      If you would like to give World Hunger, you can do so through Trinity.  Just put “World Hunger” in the memo line on your check.