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Special
Thanksgiving Edition
Presbyterian Hunger Program Resources
The
PCUSA Hunger Program addresses the need to be good stewards of creation.
Click here to see
the website for their Food and Faith Initiative. Check out the Hunger
Program's study guide "Just
Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table," which does
a great job of exploring the relationship between the way we eat
and the way we live.
ELCA Hosts Online Farm Bill Listening Session
Staff
from the Washington Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America spent
much of their summer traveling around holding listening sessions
in Minnesota on the Farm Bill, and will be going on the road again
soon to Nebraska (Dec. 12-13) and Washington State (Dec. 2). In
the meantime, make your voice heard at the online
listening session. Download
a brochure on the ELCA and the Farm Bill (pdf).
Mennonites
Offer Food and Farming Guide
Worldwide,
many Mennonites continue to live and work the land. The Mennonite
Central Committee in the U.S. honors this heritage and current reality
by engaging in food and farming issues. Download
the Food and Farming Guide (pdf). Click here
to read biblical reflections on this guide.
Methodist
Magazine features Food and Faith
The
United Methodist Church Mission Magazine, New World Outlook, devoted
an entire issue in 2001 to Food and Faith. Articles available online
include "Faith
and Food: Biblical Perspectives," "The
Late, Great Tomato," "When
Agriculture and Ecology Compete," "Fair
Food," "Community
Gardens as Kingdom Work," and others.
Eco-Justice
Working Group
Church
of the Brethren
Environmental
Justice Office of Presbyterian Church (USA)
Presbyterian
Washington Office
Episcopal
Ecological Network
Greek
Orthodox Church in America
Luthern
Earthkeeping Network of the Synods
Reformed
Church in America
United
Church of Christ
United
Methodist Board of Church and Society
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New Thanksgiving Holiday Resource!
Food, Farming, Faith and Giving Thanks 365 Days a Year
 As
we thank God for the glorious bounty of the harvest, we can look
at ways to be good stewards of farms and farming communities. For
Thanksgiving and beyond, the NCC Eco-Justice Program is offering a new resource
entitled, At the Lord’s Table: Everyday Thanksgiving.
This resource highlights the need for justice for the land and farming
communities and includes sermon starters, liturgical pieces, adult
and youth education materials, and ideas for action. Download your
free copy here (sign
up for the network to access the resource).
NCC Launches Faithful Harvest Campaign:
Making Your Voice Heard on the 2007 Farm Bill
 The
farm bill is some of the most important conservation legislation
on the agenda of the 110th Congress. Nearly half of U.S. land is
cropland, pasture, or rangeland. We need stronger conservation
programs and better support for small farmers to ensure that our
land - God's creation - continues to produce abundantly. Currently,
only one in four farmers who would like to participate in conservation
programs have the opportunity to do so. And farm payments favor
corporate growers over family farmers. Visit the brand new Faithful Harvest
website to learn more about the connections between your food and
your faith. You will also find information on how you can integrate
food and farming into your environmental justice ministry as well
as make your voice heard on farm policy issues.
Experience a Hunger Banquet
Need another way to get your congregation involved in Eco-Justice
issues? Host a Hunger Banquet with a twist! Environmental degradation
is one of many elements that contributes to world hunger. We have
adapted an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet script to highlight some
of the ways a lack of access to resources keeps people hungry in
a world abundance. Invite your friends and neighbors to an event
that highlights social and environmental justice. Download the Hunger Banquet guide and a sample script (.pdf) - it has all
that you need to plan and run a Hunger Banquet.
Sow Justice for Family Farms
New Publication from Church World
Service
 Church
World Service intoduces "Sowing Justice for Family Farmers
Everywhere," which calls for U.S. policy to help family farmers
in the U.S. and around the world. Read
CWS's Executive Director John McCullough's meditation on the Sow
Justice Campaign. To download "Sowing Justice" and an
accompanying postcard, click here.
Sign-Up for Farm Bill Updates
Stay up-to-date and informed as the U.S. Congress begins crafting
the new farm bill. We will also alert you to opportunities for action
and critical times to make your voice heard. To sign-up for these
alerts, e-mail kgalles@ncccusa.org
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