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TueSpot 2.9 - Money for Medals
This Friday night the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics begin with the Opening Ceremonies. We're giving you another reason to spend lots of time watching the Games. We challenge you to support ELCA World Hunger by cheering on the U.S. or another country of your choice. Each time your country wins a medal, donate $1 to ELCA Wor… Read More
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Recent Cause Activity
This year the ELCA is teaming up with the National Council of Churches to offer a Lenten Resource exploring Climate Justice and how it relates to each one of us in our daily lives and communities.
The resource is being written with the help of clergy, activists, and friends from around the country.
Each week the series will explore a new issue, lifting up stories from around the globe and providing ways that you and your congregation can help address climate change in your own lives.
Here are the topics that will be covered during Lent:
- Climate Change and Health
- Climate Change and Economics
- Climate Change and Development
- Climate Change and Disaster/Migration
- Climate Change and Food Security
- Holy Week Reflections on Climate Justice
If you would like to receive these Lenten reflections and explorations on climate change, please visit http://www.elca.org/advocacy and sign up!
In addition to the Climate Justice series, you will also receive a montly reflection specifically from the ELCA on caring for creation topics.
Visit http://tinyurl.com/yj6gaxt to download Lentien environmental worship resources, "Creation Waits with Eager Longing." Originally created to accompany the 2009 Living Earth reflection series, you can adapt the resources to best fit your needs.
On Sunday, February 7, nearly 100 million Americans are expected to tune in to watch the Super Bowl. Many of them will be hosting or attending parties with abundant food, friendship and fellowship. At the same time, nearly 1 billion people around the world will be hungry—worrying about staying warm, securing shelter and the source of their next meal.
The good news is that on Sunday, February 7, more than 2,000 groups of Lutheran youth will be working to change this. Will your youth group be one of them?
The Souper Bowl of Caring is a youth-led, ecumenical grassroots movement that unites youth for a single purpose: to end hunger. Collectively, this movement gathered gifts of $10.2 million and 4.5 million pounds of food in 2009. It’s easy to join the movement—just visit the Souper Bowl of Caring Web site (www.souperbowl.org) to learn more, register your group and get started.
One hundred percent of the money raised is donated to the hunger-related charities of your choice. And, as you're deciding where to send your money, please consider ELCA World Hunger (www.elca.org/hunger). Your gifts will support the projects of this church that respond to the root causes of hunger and poverty in over 50 countries—including hundreds of food pantries and soup kitchens right here in the United States. What an incredible way to make a worldwide impact!
Visit the ELCA World Hunger Web site (www.elca.org/hunger) for ideas on how to raise funds, serve others, and make a long-term commitment to ending hunger and poverty. Share your success stories with Laury Rinker, by sending her an e-mail at Laury.Rinker@elca.org. We would love to hear how your group is making a difference, and fulfilling the baptismal calling to "strive for justice."
ELCA World Hunger is pleased to offer several resources at no charge! To obtain copies of any of the following, please contact Romelia Al-
maraz at Romelia.Almaraz@elca.org. They will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis until supplies run out.
Bread for the World Institute’s 2010 Annual Report: A Just and Sustainable Recovery (LOTS of copies available)
Bread for the World’s “Getting Ready to Come Back: Advocacy Guide
for Mission Teams” booklet. 62 pages, spiral bound, 9” x 5.5”
Bread for the World’s 2010 Offering of Letters brochure. Tri-fold.
Just Neighbors simulation training kits. Included card decks may have
out-of-date statistics, but updated cards are available from Family Promise at a reasonable price. Eight kits available.
The Race: A Simplicity Musical. Script and score in digital or print ver-sions. For more information, go to www.elca.org/hunger/simple.
Living Simply With God: a 40-Day Hunger Calendar. This is a resource
that recently went out of print, but we found a few more boxes. It’s also available as a download at www.elca.org/hunger/simple.
Haiti Disaster Response
As you know, the ELCA is very involved in responding to the earthquake in Haiti. After the initial earthquake on January 12, ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Response immediately released $600,000 in relief funds. $300,000 was sent to the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), our long-term partner in Haiti and a member of Action
by Churches Together (ACT). The funds support LWF efforts to provide shelter to those left homeless. $150,000 was sent to Lutheran World Relief (LWR) to support material aid. And $150,000 was sent to Church World Service (CWS) for construction of temporary water systems and distribution of water purification systems. Since that initial response, ELCA congregations and members have donated $1.6 million (THANK YOU!!), which will continue to flow to Haiti through our partner organizations.
If you’d like to follow our response over the coming weeks, check out the new blog at http://blogs.elca.org/disasterrespons.... To make a gift or access other resources, go to www.elca.org/disaster.
Please check out www.elca.org/haitiearthquake to make a donation specifically for this relief effort!
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Fresh off the press...
January 13, 2010
Haiti Earthquake Relief
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
Last night a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the island country of Haiti, primarily impacting the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Offices, hotels, houses and shops have collapsed. The presidential palace is in ruins and many churches have been destroyed. Hospitals are overflowing and the search for survivors is intense.
The streets of Haiti are filled with people in shock and searching for loved ones among the rubble.
Your help is needed today to bring immediate relief and continued hope for our brothers and sisters in Haiti. About 3 million lives, one-third of Haiti’s population, are affected by this earthquake.
Already one of the poorest countries in the world (70 percent of Haiti's population lives in extreme poverty), this catastrophe will exacerbate the suffering felt by many already living with hunger and poverty.
ELCA Disaster Response is already working through long-standing partnerships on the ground to provide emergency food, water, shelter and medical supplies.
Financial gifts are urgently needed. Your gifts to ELCA International Disaster Response, designated for Haiti Earthquake Relief, will be used entirely (100 percent) for immediate relief and ongoing recovery in Haiti. Your prayers and generous gifts will make a life-saving difference. Please give today at www.elca.org/haitiearthquake.
Thank you for your prayers, your gifts and your partnership.
Sincerely,
The Rev. Daniel Rift
Director, ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal
Many of us have heard about the 7.0 earthquake which rocked Haiti on Tuesday. In the aftermath churches, schools, homes, hospitals and the National Palace have collapsed and countless lives lost.
ELCA World Hunger, ELCA Global Mission and The Lutheran World Federation are working right now to coordinate our response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. There is developing information on the ELCA Disaster Response website ( www.elca.org/disaster ) that will be updated regularly with more information as it becomes available. You can make a financial gift now to support the ELCA's response efforts in Haiti at WWW.ELCA.ORG/DISASTER. 100% percent of your gift will be designated for the Haitian response.
Note, ALL DONATIONS FOR OUR HAITI EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE SHOULD BE MADE DIRECTLY ON THE ABOVE DISASTER WEBSITE.
Thank you for your support.
In Christ's love,
The ELCA World Hunger team
Haiti, the poorest country in our hemisphere, has been devastated by yesterday's earthquake. ELCA's Lutheran Disaster Response is an effective way to give!
Join youth from around the country to raise money to fight hunger! February 7 is the Souper Bowl of Caring, see how you and your youth group can get involved!
http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Acti...
Did you know that more than 90 cents of every dollar donated to ELCA World Hunger goes directly to our work in the field? Less than 10 cents is used for administration & fundraising so your money goes right where it's most needed - to our work of RELIEF, DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION & ADVOCACY
learn more at www.elca.org/hunger
Have you heard of iGive.com? All you have to do is register and every time you use their search engine or shop through their website ELCA World Hunger will benefit! To date ELCA World Hunger supporters have raised nearly $4,000 through iGive.com! Check it out for yourself at www.igive.com
Consider donating to help promoting hope, healing, and wholeness for disaster survivors
A second situation report about Haiti has been released from ELCA Disaster Response (both international and domestic). The complete report is available at http://www.elca.org/disaster, but here are some highlights:
- 112,392 people reported dead, 196,501 injured
- 1 million homeless
- Material aid, specifically food aid, still in high demand
- Haitian-Americans continue to return to the U.S.
- ELCA commits an additional $300,000; immediate ELCA response now at $925,000
- ELCA Disaster Response sending additional food aid and responding to the homeless
- Lutheran Services in Florida continue to respond to the needs of returning Haitians
- ELCA staff provide coordination and communication support on the ground
- ELCA has given more than 15,000 gifts totaling 2.7 million
- Thrivent members can receive match funds now at www.thrivent.com
- ELCA Disaster Response blog available at http://blogs.elca.org/disasterrespons...
Please remember the people of Haiti, and those globally affected by this disaster in your regular prayer and meditation.