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SUMMARY:Lutherans Restoring Creation - August Connections Call
DESCRIPTION:Does it feel like “there are too many things to care about” right now? \nThose with power try to divide and conquer\, making us fight for time\, attention and resources for “our” social justice issue against “other” social justice issues. But it’s a made up fight. We get stronger together! \nThis call will integrate a Lutherans Restoring Creation “Connection Call” with ELCA World Hunger leaders\, some of whom are gathering soon to revitalize their efforts to “do justice\, love kindness\, and [move] humbly with our God.” (Micah 6:8) We’ll meet people who work for justice across multiple sectors and manifestations: migrant\, economic\, racial\, gender or environmental (MERGE). We’ll ask each other what we’re seeing in our communities and how we can work together for a world aligned with God’s just\, kind vision. \nREGISTER HERE!
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/lutherans-restoring-creation-august-connections-call-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Climate,Environment,Homepage Event,Hunger,Sustainable Agriculture
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SUMMARY:Hunger AND Creation Care Network Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Gather virtually with policy experts and experienced advocates as we prepare for the Fall in Congress – especially focused on the long-awaited Farm Bill. We’ll discuss implications for hunger and climate policy\, and ways to take action as people of faith. \nGuest Speakers: Andrew Fuller\, ELCA Advocacy Program Director for Economic Policy \nChristine Moffett\, ELCA Advocacy Program Director for Environment and Energy Policy \nRegister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tckBnSSDSXitwyF8467dgQ
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/hunger-and-creation-care-network-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Civic Participation,Climate,Homepage Event,Hunger,Sustainable Agriculture,Water Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T150000
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SUMMARY:LDR and ELCA World Hunger Intersections: Navajo Lutheran Mission
DESCRIPTION:1 hour | Online via Zoom \nSpecial Guest: Solveig Muus\, Grand Canyon Synod Hunger Leader and Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Arizona \nJoin special guest Solveig Muus as she shares the story behind the 40-40-40 Region 2 Lenten Challenge\, and how the Challenge\, now in its third year\, connects hundreds of individuals in congregations across the 5 synods in Region 2 with each other\, as well as with the work of ELCA World Hunger and Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR). The Lenten Challenge for 2025 supports LDR and our church’s call to respond to non-conventional disasters\, including the work at Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission (NELM). NELM is a 70-year-old ministry of the ELCA in Rock Point\, Arizona\, where more than half the households either do not have running water or do not have access to safe drinking water. In addition to various spiritual practices\, each year’s Challenge includes an opportunity for giving; gifts generated through this year’s challenge support LDR projects such as providing holding tanks and an automated water distribution system for filtration and chlorination for our siblings in Christ on the Navajo reservation. \nRegister through LDR’s online portal.
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/ldr-and-elca-world-hunger-intersections-navajo-lutheran-mission/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Climate,Disaster Response,Homepage Event,Hunger,Racial Justice,Social Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T120000
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SUMMARY:Hunger Network Call
DESCRIPTION:For advocates in PA interested in preventing and ending hunger in PA and beyond. Especially welcome are those who have hunger and feeding ministries in their congregations! \n\nRegister here!
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/hunger-network-call/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Civic Participation,Homepage Event,Hunger,Sustainable Agriculture
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SUMMARY:Our Kairos Moment: The Future of Farming
DESCRIPTION:In June 2024\, the ELCA released “Our Kairos Moment: A Study Guide on Earth’s Climate Crisis.” Over the next four months\, Lutherans Restoring Creation will facilitate a study group on this guide during our connections call time\, each hour focusing on one part (of four) of the study guide. We hope that by going through the guide ourselves\, that participants will gain familiarity and confidence with the study guide and will be able to implement it in their own congregations and communities. \nDuring Part Three\, our theme is “The Future of Farming.” We will think about our connection to our food and how sustainability can be a guiding principle in our food and agriculture. We will address how climate change manifests generationally\, with fewer and older farmers\, but also climate anxiety in younger generations. \nRegister here!
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/our-kairos-moment-the-future-of-farming/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Climate,Homepage Event,Hunger,Sustainable Agriculture,Water Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T200000
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SUMMARY:World Food Day: Celebrating 50 Years of ELCA World Hunger
DESCRIPTION:This special online event will be hosted by the Rev. Amy Current\, bishop of the Southeastern Iowa Synod\, and Imran Siddiqui\, vice president of the ELCA. \nTune in on Oct. 15 to hear firsthand stories from partners at ELCA World Hunger projects — including Educación Popular en Salud (EPES)\, a community health organization in Chile founded over 40 years ago\, and more recent starts such as Tapestry Farms\, a Midwestern urban farm system in the “Quad Cities” of Iowa and Illinois. You’ll see the impact of 50 years of ELCA World Hunger work and get excited and equipped to be a part of the next 50 years! \nRegister here to receive reminders\, event information\, World Food Day resources and the event recording. \nFind more information here. 
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/world-food-day-celebrating-50-years-of-elca-world-hunger/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Climate,Environment,Homepage Event,Hunger,Sustainable Agriculture,Water Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T150000
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SUMMARY:SUN Bucks Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The PA Food Policy Council is excited to partner with the PA Departments of Human Services (DHS) and Education (PDE) to host an information session on the PA SUN Bucks program which will launch in 2024. SUN Bucks is Pennsylvania’s Summer EBT program–a new grocery benefits program that provides households with a one-time payment of $120 for each eligible child to buy food while school is out. Benefits can be used at local participating retailers to purchase groceries. \nPA SUN Bucks Informational Session\nThursday\, June 27\, 2024\n3pm to 4pm\nVirtual session held via Microsoft Teams or dialing in by phone\nAll are welcome! Join us via Microsoft Teams or phone. Details below:\n________________________________________________________________________________\nJoin the meeting here \nMeeting ID: 282 230 908 207\nPasscode: 7NSXPg\n________________________________\nDial in by phone\n+1 267-332-8737\,\,362267244# United States\, Philadelphia\nRecording or transcribing this meeting\, in any manner including through a third-party application\, may not occur without the consent of all participants\, as required by law\, and must adhere to Commonwealth policies. For more info click the legal link.\nPrivacy and security\n________________________________________________________________________________ \nBackground information: \nPA SUN BUCKS Program\nSummer is a time when many children may not have access to the free and reduced-price meals they get during the school year\, and households might need a little extra help putting meals on the table.\nThis year Pennsylvania will launch SUN Bucks\, Pennsylvania’s Summer EBT program\, a new grocery benefits program that provides households with a one-time payment of $120 for each eligible child to buy food while school is out. Benefits can be used at local participating retailers to purchase groceries.\nMany children will get these benefits automatically\, but some households will need to apply. The benefits will be added to an existing SNAP/TANF EBT card or a newly issued Summer EBT card.\nTo learn more about SUN Bucks\, read more here.\nNote: For the first year of this program\, paper applications for children that are not automatically eligible will become available in July 2024. Benefits will be issued to all eligible children by October 2024. \nPA Food Policy Council\nThe Pennsylvania Food Policy Council\, established in December 2022 by Executive Order 2022-05\, is an important policy initiative of the Shapiro administration. Tasked with evaluating and advancing solutions to issues facing Pennsylvania’s food system\, the council will develop and implement strategies to improve food and nutrition security\, public health\, environmental sustainability and stewardship\, local food economies\, and to reduce food waste. Learn more here!
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/sunbucks-program-info-session/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Education,Homepage Event,Hunger
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240510
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SUMMARY:Lutheran Day in the Capitol 2024
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for Lutheran Day in the Capitol and a celebration of LAMPa’s 45th anniversary! \nWho: Lutheran advocates\, leaders\, and partners from around Pennsylvania \nWhen: Thursday\, May 9. \nWhere: Trinity Lutheran Church Camp Hill and the PA State Capitol in Harrisburg \nWhy: Education\, inspiration\, and advocacy on issues that matter \nCelebrate LAMPa’s 45th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of ELCA World Hunger at a gala celebration of advocates at the Harrisburg Hilton in the evening. \nContinuing education certificates of attendance will be made available for ELCA rostered leaders. \nFind out more and register here! 
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/lutheran-day-in-the-capitol-2024/
LOCATION:Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church\, Camp Hill\, 2000 Chestnut St.\, Camp Hill\, PA\, 17011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Civic Participation,Homepage Event,Hunger,Interfaith
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T120000
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UID:13484-1712145600-1712149200@www.lutheranadvocacypa.org
SUMMARY:Hunger Network Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Hunger Ministry leaders and advocates from across the Commonwealth as for a time of connecting\, sharing\, and learning! \nWhy join a network? \nThe work of striving for justice and peace in all the earth can be lonely and exhausting – LAMPa hopes that by launching our networks we strengthen the bonds of our advocates across the Commonwealth and remind one another that we are not alone. It will also be a time to share our stories and best practices of our ministry and discipleship in these areas\, and to dream together about how to best lift up our stories and hopes to those in power.\n\n\nWe hope you join us in this important work of connecting and inspiring one another!\n\n\nRegister HERE.
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/hunger-network-launch/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Homepage Event,Hunger
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T170000
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UID:13432-1709823600-1709830800@www.lutheranadvocacypa.org
SUMMARY:School Breakfast 101: Implementing Innovative Breakfast Models Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join the Food Resource & Action Center (FRAC) for their webinar “School Breakfast 101: Implementing Innovative Breakfast Models.” \nThe webinar will take place Thursday\, March 7\, at 3:00 p.m. \nThe School Breakfast program supports student health and learning and improves school attendance; however\, traditional breakfast models\, where breakfast is served before the start of the school day\, hinder participation. Innovative breakfast models\, such as Breakfast After the Bell\, are effective ways to boost participation and ensure children start their day ready to learn. \nYou can join the FRAC this National School Breakfast Week to learn how schools are supporting student success through innovative breakfast models. \nThe FRAC improves the nutrition\, health\, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the United States through advocacy\, partnerships\, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions. \nLAMPa has been active in advocating for school breakfast for years. Reach out to us at lampa@lutheranadvocacy.org to share about your hunger ministries and advocacy for school breakfast. \nYou can register for the FRAC webinar here.
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/school-breakfast-101-implementing-innovative-breakfast-models-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Civic Participation,Education,Homepage Event,Hunger
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T180000
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SUMMARY:Learn About Advancing Food System Equity at PA Farm Show
DESCRIPTION:Join the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Project J.U.S.T.\, PA Preferred\, the PA Food Policy Council\, and Pennsylvanians from around the Commonwealth for a special event at the 108th Pennsylvania Farm Show. The event aims to foster connections and promote equity in the food system. \nSynod and congregational hunger ministry leaders are invited to join LAMPa staff  at the event on Sunday\, Jan. 7\,  from 4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg in the PA Preferred Banquet Hall. Send us a note to gather with fellow Lutheran hunger advocates around this important part of our work together.  \nAt this in-person gathering\, titled “Connecting Communities & Opportunities: Building Equity in the Food System\,” event organizers will bring together individuals\, organizations\, and communities passionate about creating a fair and inclusive food system for all. Through engaging discussion\, we will explore ways to bridge gaps\, address disparities\, and ensure everyone has access to healthy and sustainable food. \nThe session will feature a dynamic panel from all walks of life across Pennsylvania to share their food stories. We hope for meaningful conversation about the strengths we bring and the challenges we face as we envision the future of our food system. Participants will ask how we can advance economic and racial justice and ensure access to nutritious\, culturally significant foods and foodways for all. \nFrom chefs\, farmers\, and food producers to policymakers and advocates\, this event welcomes anyone interested in building a more equitable food system. \nPanelists will include: \n\nChef Chris Scott\, Chef-Owner of Butterfunk Biscuit Co. (NYC) and restaurateur\, television personality\, and cookbook author\nDenise Dennis\, President and CEO of The Dennis Farm\nAsh Chan\, Farmer at Oasis Farm and Fishery of The Bible Center\nChef Bruce W. Harris\, Jr. (AKA Chef B)\, Executive Chef at Community Kitchen Pittsburgh\nHannah Smith-Brubaker\, Farmer and Executive Director of Pasa Sustainable Agriculture\n\nYou can register for the event here. \nYou can learn more about the Pennsylvania Food Policy Council here.
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/learn-about-advancing-food-system-equity-at-pa-farm-show/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex\, 2300 N. Cameron St.\, Harrisburg\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Homepage Event,Hunger
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SUMMARY:Capitol All-Stars Legislative Softball Game To Benefit Charitable Food Programs in PA
DESCRIPTION:Since its launch in 2013\, the Capitol All-Stars charitable\, legislative softball game has raised more than $300\,000 to fight hunger in Pennsylvania. \nAlways a fun night under the lights at the FNB Field in Harrisburg\, the game allows lawmakers from both chambers and both parties to get together to hit a home run against hunger! \nJoin your Pennsylvania state legislators\, Hunger-Free Pennsylvania\, Feeding Pennsylvania\, and LAMPa at the game. \nClick here for more!
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/capitol-all-stars-legislative-softball-game-2022/
LOCATION:City Island\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Participation,Hunger
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SUMMARY:Capitol All-Stars Legislative Softball Game To Benefit Charitable Food Programs in PA
DESCRIPTION:Since its launch in 2013\, the Capitol All-Stars charitable\, legislative softball game has raised more than $300\,000 to fight hunger in Pennsylvania. \nAlways a fun night under the lights at the FNB Field in Harrisburg\, the game allows lawmakers from both chambers and both parties to get together to hit a home run against hunger! \nJoin your Pennsylvania state legislators\, Hunger-Free Pennsylvania\, Feeding Pennsylvania\, and LAMPa at the game. \nClick here for more!
URL:https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/event/capitol-all-stars-legislative-softball-game-2022-2/
LOCATION:City Island\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Participation,Hunger
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