Is “he” in your life 24 / 7 ?

News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 5, 2010

Contact:
Carol A. Breitinger
Communications Director
Society of St. Andrew
800-333-4597
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www.endhunger.org

Churches challenged to raise hunger awareness
and action to end hunger
September is National Hunger Action Month

Hunger is a year-in-year-out problem.  But during September hunger advocates, agencies and alliances across the country work together to focus attention on the issue of hunger in America 

Make no mistake – there is hunger in this, the wealthiest nation on the planet!  Some 49 million Americans now live with food insecurity – the situation in which one never knows from day to day if they will have enough food for their children and themselves.  And this plight is exacerbated by the nationwide depression affecting just about everyone.

September is “National Hunger Action Month,” which offers the opportunity for your church to become more aware of the need that exists right in your own communities and all across the land, and to rise to the challenge of feeding the hungry.

The Society of St. Andrew (Advance #801600) is providing a variety of free, ready-to-used resources to motivate church congregations to step out on faith to follow Jesus’ commands concerning the poor and hungry.  These resources can be used in September or anytime during the year to raise hunger awareness and to call your congregation to action.  The resources include: scripture readings related to hunger, poverty and justice; five sample sermons; prayers; a prayer calendar; litany; dramatic reading; bulletin insert; “feed my sheep” art; U.S. and world hunger fact sheets; and steps to fight hunger.  The prayer calendar is specially designed as a way to help your congregation get personally engaged, through prayer and action, in the mission of helping our brothers and sisters who are hungry and to work for an end to the needless injustice of hunger.

All of these resources are available for free download at http://www.endhunger.org/hunger_action-month.htm or by contacting the Rev. Jennifer Vestal Moore at the Society of St. Andrew at 800-333-4597 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) is a national nonprofit hunger relief ministry founded in 1979.  SoSA saves fresh vegetables and fruits from going to waste in fields and packing houses and donates this nutritious food to critical feeding agencies for their clients.  Each year SoSA saves 20-30 million pounds of perfectly good produce that would have been dumped into landfills or plowed under and uses it instead to provide 60-90 million servings of the most nutritious food to the hungry.  So far this year nearly 15 million pounds of food have been donated to agencies throughout the nation.  Last year 26.5 million pounds of produce, saved by nearly 35,000 volunteers, provided almost 80 million servings to hungry Americans.

For more information about Hunger Action Month worship resources or about the Society of St. Andrew’s hunger-relief ministry, contact Rev. Moore or go to www.endhunger.org.

Twinkies and Root Beer

A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of Root Beer and he started his journey.

When he had gone about three blocks, he met an elderly man. The man was sitting in the park just feeding some pigeons.

The boy sat down next to him and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the man looked hungry, so he offered him a Twinkie.

The man gratefully accepted it and smiled at boy. His smile was so pleasant that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered him a root beer.

Again, the man smiled at him. The boy was delighted! They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word.

As it grew dark, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the man, and gave him a hug. The man gave him his biggest smile ever.