Hunger Studies

Are you looking for a resource to study Hunger in your local church? The Bishop's Hunger Task Force has put together a list options for short and lnger study.

There are resources available appropriate for children, youth, adults, and even a few for intergenerational use. Some are complete studies, fully planned. Others are less structured and would require a bit more preparation on the part of a facilitator. All are available online, most with a free download. Videos are available from the Regional Media Center.

Below is a resource bibliography to help you as you plan. Additionally, members of the Hunger Task Force and District Hunger Coordinators are available to offer suggestions and answer questions and serve as resource for you.

It's time to clean out that jar in the kitchen or basket on your dresser. Take that loose change (maybe a few loose bills too!) and collect them at your church to bring to Annual Conference Session in June (please bring a check - not a bag of coins).

Once again the Bishop's Innitiative to Eliminate Hunger will be collecting Change for a Change to fund programs for working to eliminate hunger. Click here to download a brochure about the fund rasing events. Click here to download a calendar of related activities for May.

Click on the link below to download the 2010 Grant Application from the Bishop’s Initiative to Eliminate Hunger.

The Task Force for the Bishop’s Initiative to Eliminate Hunger is pleased to offer grants to local ministry settings to establish or expand direct service, education and advocacy on behalf of the hungry in our communities. It is our hope that this grant will assist beginning hunger‐related projects or provide funding to expand existing projects, so grants will generally be one‐time only; our expectation is that these projects will become self‐sustaining. Ministries requesting grants are expected to match a portion of the grant. Grantees must agree to submit a progress report one month prior to the next Annual Conference for October grants and for prior to Annual Conference the following year for April recipients.

For more information contact Initiative Co-Chairs, Gayle Woods at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Jonathan Enz at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 

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File	Description	File size
Hunger Grant Form 2010.doc	Hunger grant application (in Word)	333 Kb

United Methodist Women at First United Methodist Church are spending 2009 exploring ways to reduce hunger in our community. As the current recession sent Oregon's unemployment rate beyond 12%, we learned that the Marion Polk Food Share and partner agencies were being called upon to provide food boxes for 6,500 families each month, an all time record. This was 631 more families needing assistance than the previous year in our area alone.
While looking at the needs in the mid Willamette Valley, we also realized that many who rely on food boxes would be doing without much of the fresh food that most of us enjoy during the summer.

“Grow a Row“ was introduced. We kicked off the project with a workshop lead by master gardener Mardean King in early March. This included a conversation about issues related to hunger locally, followed by information on produce appropriate for our climate and the needs of the food distribution centers. She also offered examples of gardening with large plots of land, small beds or just patio containers. Mardean then got everyone inspired by sharing photos of her own gardens and offering seeds and small plants for group members to take home.