Shenandoah Presbytery

Shenandoah's Hunger Program Links

Hunger Basics: Facts about world hunger
Presbytery Four-Cents-A-Meal Program
Food Banks Serving Shenandoah
Virginia - Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
West Virginia - Mountaineer Food Bank
Volunteer Farm of Shenandoah: Helping to Feed the Hungry

June 2008 - Gobal Hunger Concerns

The growing food crisis throughout the world is cause for great concern. Below is a collection of resources for learning, for understanding and for taking ACTION in our struggles to feed the hungry everywhere.
-Global Food Crisis - Ruth Farrell and PHP Document
-Food Crisis Response - PHP Meeting Notes - Andrew Kang-Bartlett
-Global Food Crisis PowerPoint - by Andrew Kang-Bartlett
-Fasting: Spiritually & Socially Transforming - Noelle Damico
-Fast God Chooses - Steven Shussett
-Eucharist and Hunger
-Fasting 101 - Steven Shussett

What Can I Do? Faith in Action Steps

Become knowledgeable about Sustainable Agriculture using these links:
* Food and Faith: www.pcusa.org/hunger/food/do.htm
* Food and Faith Action Steps can be found on each page of the Just Eating? Reader
(shown below) with more at the end of each chapter:
www.pcusa.org/hunger/downloads/resource_justeatpart.pdf
* Hunger: www.pcusa.org/hunger/action.htm
* Fair Food: www.pcusa.org/fairfood/action.htm
* Trade Justice: www.pcusa.org/trade/action.htm
* Fair Trade: www.pcusa.org/trade/ft.htm#support

The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP), in collaboration with two other organizations, has developed a seven-week curriculum for congregations exploring the relationship between the way we eat and the way we live.

Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table aims to bring into dialogue daily eating habits, the Christian faith and the “needs of the broader world” through readings, action steps and healthy eating tips.

“Never before has the Presbyterian Church produced a full curriculum on eating,” said Andrew Kang Bartlett, a PHP staffer who oversaw the project’s completion.
Scripture, prayer and stories from the local and global community are used to explore four key aspects of Christians’ relationship with food:

the health of our bodies

the health of the earth that provides our food

the ways we use food to extend hospitality and enrich relationships

the challenge of hunger

For more information and to place an order, go to the PCUSA website. Click here.

From Andrew Kang-Bartlett, Associate for National Hunger Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program

Videos on Food and Hunger Issues
A Film Listing of videos on Hunger, Food Systems, Globalization and more, is available when you click here. Many of these are available for borrowing. These will be up on the PHP website soon also.

You can contact Andrew Kang-Bartlett by email at: abartlet@ctr.pcusa.org