It is likely that over 13,000 people will die of hunger today.  963 million people across the world are hungry. Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes, that’s one child every five seconds. (Statistics provided by Bread - http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html)

With all this in mind and the ever growing need for hunger awareness and action due to the current economic crisis - we continue to have conversation about how we may alievate some of the hunger in our area.

Over the past few months we have had two potlucks which raised hunger awareness and fueled some action in this regard.  We also collected almost 1300 cans of food for the Oxon Hill Food Pantry in January and people from the congregation walked and donated money for the Oxon Hill Walk-a-thon on May 16.  The congregation also continues to collect food on a continual basis which is then donated to the food pantry.

If you’d like to get involved in addressing this issue or begin conversation about another, please send an email to kmurray@hopeclinton.org.  Otherwise, check out ELCA World Hunger (http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Responding-to-the-World/ELCA-World-Hunger/Our-Work.aspx). 

The two potlucks were done in conjunction with A Month of Potlucks Project: http://amonthofpotlucks.blogspot.com.

Photo courtesy of Hamed Parham