ELCA World Hunger

Almost everyone feels empathy when they see pictures of a hungry child. This is not a uniquely Christian emotion. However, the response to such empathy-producing situations should be what sets us apart: we act. This action space is where I...

I present the following thoughts with a bit of fear and trepidation.  I want to say up front that I am not taking sides and that the reason I am posting is to provoke reflection and conversation.  I hope a...

In Wichita and many other communities across Kansas, more than a month of high temperatures and no rain has harmed crops and triggered water conservation efforts. The swimming pool in my Holiday Inn is closed. There’s no drain plug in...

Greetings Fellow Hunger Rumblings Blog Followers, It’s been a while, but if you sift back through the records, you’ll find some old posts by me, Mikka. Since my time as an intern with ELCA World Hunger, I’ve finished college and...

It has been quite the eventful summer!  A PhD in May (I’m that much smarter now, which means you should be even more skeptical of my claims), a move in June, a baby in July (yes, the two are related,...

The time is now! That’s what we keep saying about the ELCA Malaria Campaign.  The ELCA is proud to be a part of a global movement, a movement that has been picking up speed for the past ten years. At...

As it closes its doors, Walter Reed Hospital has been featured in several NPR stories over the past few weeks. Here’s a fascinating and well-written story about malaria research that’s happening there, on live volunteers, with the hope of finding...

Last week, one of the voting members at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly urged us to remember Will Herzfeld, who served as the executive of ELCA Global Mission and who died of malaria that he contracted while on a trip to...

Looking for a way to engage the youth of your congregation in the ELCA Malaria Campaign? Might I suggest this book: “The Boy Who Saved Cleveland,” by James Cross Giblin, illustrated by Michael Dooling. It’s a chapter book for early...

(posted by Audrey Riley for intern Karen Ward) During the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and others called the world to action with “1,000 Days: Change a Life, Change...