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WORLD HUNGER APPEAL

5thsunday 5TH SUNDAY FOR WORLD HUNGER

Pray each day for the eradication of hunger.

The Bulletin Insert for the 5th Sunday in JANUARY is available to download.

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This material will be mailed to congregations and contacts. To order color copies for your congregation to use in Sunday Bulletins contact the synod office nwpasynod@nwpaelca.org or call 814-589-7660.

ANSWERS TO "BREAD CRUMBS" QUIZ

World Hunger is a complicated reality. All of these are causes, but bread for the World identifies poverty as the primary cause of hunger.
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Fewer. Our efforts have made a difference! But the current trends are increasingly negative.
328 - CLICK HERE for a list of 2009 grants given to ministries in Pennsylvania
1940s (They emerged out of the ashes of World War II): LWR - 1945, LWF-1947
Sub-Saharan Africa (236 million people are hungry in this region alone)
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35.5 million

ELCA World Hunger is a connected, comprehensive, and compassionate program that helps individuals and communities lift themselves out of poverty into self-sufficiency. Through our giving and caring, through our advocacy and action, we make a life-saving difference.

MEMBERS OF THE WORLD HUNGER COMMITTEE NWPA SYNOD

Rev. J. Kenneth Laber, chairperson	814/725-4849 (home) 814/323-3280 (cell)
Christine Adams	814/856-2807
Karen & Kayla Allgeier	814/825-2654
Jack Donaldson	814/757-8032
Mary Housholder (synod staff)	814/589-7660 ext. 102
David & Gerry Miller	814/849-6809
Roxanne Morris	814/938-5914
Ellie Pope	330/448-1179
Kathleen Schubert	724/662-2432
Rev. Maureen L. Seifried	814-938-5980
Richard Smith	724/349-7555
Mary Truitt

Call any member of the committee for help getting a World Hunger Program initiated in your congregation.

Check the ELCA World Hunger Website for additional resources and
fun ideas to raise awareness of world hunger in your congregation.

www.elca.org/hunger

A GAME THAT FIGHTS HUNGER

Can you imagine fighting world hunger while learning and having fun? It is easy! Go to www.freerice.com and play a game with a charitable twist. This is an online quiz for anyone from 8 to 108. The program started as a vocabulary booster but has expanded to include geography, foreign languages, chemistry, and many other topics. For each correct answer you provide sponsors donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations' World Food Program. As of November 2008, FreeRice had raised over 44 billion grains - enough to feed more than two million people for a day. This is a wonderful opportunity to give so share the idea with friends, neighbors, Sunday school classes, etc.