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JUNE 2017
IN THIS ISSUE:
Synod assembly
recap
Welcoming Phil
Resource of the
month: ELCA
blogs
Hens for Hunger
From Mikka’s
desk: Buen
viaje and
muchas
gracias
Monthly
network
webinar
By the numbers:
Make your gift
count —
double!
FROM JOSSELYN’S DESK: DOMESTIC HUNGER GRANTS
Dear ELCA World Hunger Leaders and Friends,
Remember, the ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants application process
closes on July 7! Toward our pursuit of a just world where all are fed, ELCA World
Hunger supports work and ministry in four categories:
1. RELIEF provides immediate access to food, shelter, clothing, medical supplies
and care, and the means to deliver and sustain these activities (transport,
storage, supplies, etc.) so that basic needs can be met.
2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT leads to increased access to food and sustainable livelihoods through
means such as sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology, adequate housing, jobs,
primary health care and disease prevention, job training, child care, elder care, nutrition education,
literacy training, sanitation, safe-water supplies, below-market loans, and just land use and
distribution.
3. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING brings people with common values, complementary interests and shared
concerns together to build and maintain an environment that empowers all people to
obtain justice, affirm their dignity, and gain access to the goods of the earth.
4. ADVOCACY works to overcome the effects and root causes of hunger and poverty through
administrative, legislative and judicial actions in the public sphere, as well as corporate actions in the
private sphere.
As you advise and work with your congregations and partners, please remember to read all the
directions. Review the posted sample application before beginning the process. Make sure the grant
focus is on addressing root causes of food insecurity and poverty.
Finally, we are now working with a two-year cycle. The funding is approved for two consecutive years
based on the initial application, the completion of an organization information update and the
evaluation form, which is completed near the end of the first year. Grant awards may differ in year two. If
an applicant participated in the last cycle, 2016-17, they are ineligible to apply for this cycle, 2018-19.
If you have any questions, please contact Johnnie Thompson ([email protected]) or Joe Young
([email protected]). We look forward to receiving applications, and give thanks for our continued
shared ministry together!
Josselyn Bennett
Director, Poverty and Justice Ministries, ELCA Domestic Mission
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SYNOD
The ELCA has a total of 13 blogs that share stories,
news and resources from ministry across the ELCA.
You can see a complete list of blogs as well as
the most recent posts here.
Below are a few examples of blog posts from this
month:
• The ELCA Worship Blog featured prayer
petitions that identify many of the
communities that disproportionally bear the
burden of the HIV epidemic in the United
States and around the world.
• The ELCA World Hunger Blog featured a
special post for World Refugee Day on June
20.
• The ELCA Advocacy Blog featured a post
highlighting proposed decreases in funding
for international aid.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SYNOD
Phil LaDeur joins the ELCA World
Hunger team as program
assistant for education.
Phil comes to the team after
serving as a special-education
teacher in Carol Stream, Ill. Phil
enjoys serving as a volunteer
youth pastor at his congregation, St. Andrew
Lutheran in West Chicago.
A member of the ELCA Glocal Musicians for the
past two years, Phil is learning to play the banjo
and ukulele.
Feel free to welcome Phil with a friendly email to
[email protected]. You can read more about Phil
and other new additions to the ELCA World
Hunger staff here.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SYNOD
Each year, hunger leaders like you
share the story of ELCA World Hunger
at synod assemblies across the
country.
2017 continued the tradition as
you shared resources, said thank you,
biked, walked, led campaigns and
much more!
Thank you for your continued
commitment, creativity and passion
for this ministry.
We want to hear your stories from
synod assembly, so please email us at
[email protected] or find ELCA World
Hunger on Facebook.
WELCOMING NEW STAFF: PHIL LADEUR RESOURCE OF THE MONTH: ELCA BLOGS
SYNOD ASSEMBLY RECAP
MONTHLY NETWORK WEBINAR: MAY LINK AND JUNE MEETING DATE
This month, the ELCA World Hunger monthly network webinar’s feature topic was Domestic Hunger Grants.
We heard more about synod assemblies as well as the new edition of ELCA World Hunger’s LifeLines. You
can listen here. The recording is listed by topic below.
00:00-01:27 Welcome
01:27-30:55 Feature topic: Domestic Hunger Grants
30:55-41:21 Synod assembly recap
41:21-47:51 LifeLines 2016 in review
47:51-53:08 Summer events
53:08-57:00 Closing
Next month’s webinar:
There will be no
webinar in July.
Monthly webinars will
resume Aug. 15.
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HENS FOR HUNGER
When St. Abrahams
Lutheran Church in
Hampstead, Md., decided
to raise funds in support of
ELCA World Hunger, they
ended up raising
something else: chickens!
With a grant from Thrivent Financial, St. Abrahams
purchased 24 chicks to start their “Hens For
Hunger” fundraiser.
Members of the congregation donated their
yards as well as an outdoor shed, which was
converted into a coop. Once the chicks had
grown, the congregation sold cartons of eggs for
$1 and the hens were eventually sold to good
homes for $20 each. St. Abrahams raised $424 in
support of ELCA World Hunger!
Do you have a story from
your congregation?
Share with us via email at
Why are we called to be involved in
advocacy? In a new video, the Rev.
Amy Reumann, director of ELCA Ad-
vocacy says, “We are involved in
advocacy because its part of our
baptism.”
You can watch and hear other ELCA Advocacy staff
and community leaders describe this important
ministry here.
As part of the ELCA churchwide
ministry's commitment to the
support and development of staff,
I am thrilled to be taking a
sabbatical June 26-Sept. 15.
A big thank you to the whole
ELCA World Hunger team for their support, and please
know that the team is more than ready, willing and
able to continue working with you during this time! I will
be working on an intensive language immersion, as
well as shadowing ELCA World Hunger ministries
alongside the Lutheran church in Colombia.
See you in September!
FROM MIKKA’S DESK: BUEN VIAJE
ELCA ADVOCACY: SET FREE TO DO JUSTICE
ELCA WORLD HUNGER CHURCHWIDE ORGANIZATION STAFF
ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal
Daniel Rift, director
Robin Brown, associate director
Emily Dubay, associate director
Sharon Magnuson, associate director
Krystal McClinton, development assistant
Caitlin Sellnow, development assistant
ELCA World Hunger Engagement and Education
Mikka McCracken, director
Ryan Cumming, program director
Iain Chester, coordinator
Haley Toresdahl, assistant
Phillip LaDeur, program assistant
Contact us
Mail to:
ELCA World Hunger
8765 W. Higgins Rd.
Chicago, IL 60631
Phone: (toll-free) 800-638-3522, ext. 2616
or 773-380-2616
Email: [email protected]
Any staff member may be contacted by using this
format: [email protected].
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resources online at:
ELCA.org/resources.
BY THE NUMBERS: MAKE YOUR GIFT COUNT — DOUBLE
Did you know the ELCA has a
new matching-gifts webpage?
Many employers match
employee philanthropic giving,
and matchinggifts.com/elca
allows you to determine if your employer will match gifts to
ELCA World Hunger and other ministries of the ELCA. This is
a one-stop shop for all the information employers often
request when matching gifts, too!
If you have any questions about matching gifts, you can
contact [email protected].
Thank you for your generous support of ELCA World Hunger!
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Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA – Totals as of the end of April 2017
ELCA World Hunger year-to-date (toward overall goal of $24 million by end of FY2017) $3.45million
ELCA World Hunger (toward The Campaign for the ELCA goal of $115 million by end of FY2018) $67.75 million
Overall The Campaign for the ELCA (toward overall goal of $198 million by end of FY2018) $119.7 million