Field Report: Supporting Local Efforts in Malawi
This week, ELCA World Hunger and ELCA Global Mission staff are visiting with companions in Malawi, learning more about the great work local volunteers and leaders are doing with support from ELCA World Hunger. Below, David Mills, the program director...
Reflection on the United Nations’ 62nd Commission on the Status of Women
In March 2018, the 62nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) brought together leaders from around the world. Established in 1946, the CSW is the principal international intergovernmental body dedicated to gender equality...
Welcome New Staff!
The ELCA World Hunger team welcomed three new colleagues to the team in the last few months! Jenny Ackerman, Coordinator for Network Engagement Hello! My name is Jenny Ackerman, and I am excited to be joining the ELCA World...
Burying the Alleluia for Lent
After a lifetime of Sundays, worship can seem so rote, so mechanical. Sermon lessons blend together, and we can float through liturgy on autopilot. But as I was reminded this weekend, once in a while something as simple as...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Like Matthew 25
37Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed...
A New VBS for 2018!
It’s hard to believe, but summer is just around the corner, and ELCA World Hunger is happy to announce that “God’s Good Creation,” our new Vacation Bible School program for 2018, is now available! “God’s Good Creation” is a...
Advent Study Series: The World Is About to Turn
From the halls of power to the fortress tower, not a stone will be left on stone. Let the king beware for your justice tears every tyrant from his throne. The hungry poor shall weep no more, for the...
The Augustana College Campus Kitchen – One Year In
Witticisms about college students surviving on cheap noodles and coffee abound, but hunger on campus and off campus is no laughing matter. Just ask the student leaders at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. With support from an ELCA World...
Advent Study Series: Movers and Shakers (Week 3)
Have you ever thought of the “movers and shakers” in your community? This is one collective term we often use to describe the people we think of as powerful, important or effective in their leadership. Perhaps they have...
Advent Study Series: Our Baptismal Calling (Week 2)
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level,...