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World Refugee Day 2017

  At the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, ELCA World Hunger staff fielded questions and gathered feedback from the folks packing a room in the New Orleans’ Ernest Morial Convention Center. For an hour, we shared updates, heard comments about our...

Welcome New Additions to the ELCA World Hunger Team!

kkjhjhgjkghjkghjhg kkjhjhgjkghjkghjhg The ELCA welcomes our new additions-Haley Toresdahl, Caitlin Sellnow, and Phillip LaDeur to the ELCA World Hunger staff! Learn more about them and their passions here! kkjhjhgjkghjkghjhg Haley Toresdahl Hello! My name is Haley Toresdahl. I am originally...

A Time for Everything: Planting Your Garden

    There is a Time for Everything, and a Season for Every Activity Under Heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1   In the first post in this series on planning your garden, we named the 5 P’s of gardening: Planning Planting Perspiring...

ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants Now Available!

The application for Domestic Hunger Grants for 2018-2019 is now open! The Domestic Hunger Grants program supports ministries that accompany people who experience poverty and hunger in the communities across the United States and Caribbean. These grants do more than...

World Malaria Day 2017: Updates from the Field

  As we celebrate World Malaria Day, I cannot forget the words of Ryunosuke Satoro who said, “Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean” Together we can end malaria for good. -Yeukai Muzezewa (Evangelical Lutheran Church in...

World Health Day – Hunger and Health

  World Health Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization, is an opportunity to raise awareness of global health issues. It is celebrated every April 7. This year, we are pleased to have a guest post from Katy Ajer. Katy...

A Time for Everything: Planning Your Garden

  In this new series by guest writer Ethan Bergman, we will consider the 5 P’s of gardening – planning, planting, perspiring, picking, and putting to bed – over the course of the next few months. Ethan is a Master...

Top Ten Tips for Your Garden in the Spring

ELCA World Hunger is excited to welcome back Ed Merrell as a guest blogger. Ed previously wrote a series of Fall tips for your garden for the ELCA World Hunger blog. Ed is an Independent Seeds Professional. He engages with...

2017 ELCA World Hunger Education and Networking Grants Are Available!

  ELCA World Hunger Education and Networking Grants are designed to support local projects and programs in ELCA congregations, groups and/or synods. The grant opportunity encourages ELCA congregations, groups and/or synods to think creatively about educating, mobilizing, and expanding their...

“I Carry Her with Me”: A Reflection from the UN CSW

  The ELCA Young Adult Cohort is a partnership of the ELCA Justice for Women program, the ELCA Strategy on HIV and Aids, the Young Adults in Global Mission Alumni, ELCA Young Adult ministry and ELCA World Hunger. These networks...