Advocacy with BREAD FOR THE WORLD
2025 Offering of Letters
“Federal nutrition programs provide roughly 10 times as much food assistance as private churches and charities combined.” Bread for the World
The congregation of All Saints Lutheran Church works to address hunger year-round. We fill backpacks with food for the children of Sierra Vista Elementary School. We take meals to the guests at Family Promise. Some of our members also work with Dignity Mission, which takes rice and beans to the border for migrating people. Others work with the Indigenous Food Hub and community gardens, which help our neighbors access fresh produce. Through Lutheran Advocacy Ministry and the Roadrunner Coalition to End Hunger, we advocate for just policy for people experiencing poverty.
Our local and state efforts are outstanding, but, as the quotation above implies, we also are called to work at the federal level. Now is the season when our congregation joins fellow Christians throughout the U.S. in Bread for the World’s Offering of Letters. By contacting our members of Congress through handwritten letters, we can voice support for domestic and international nutrition programs that help children thrive.
Theme: Nourish Our Future
When: Sunday, March 16, after our service.
Where: The Fellowship Hall.
What: Write three brief letters.
Who: You are invited to write your U.S. senators and your U.S. representative.
How: Model letters, paper, pens, envelopes, and mailing labels will be on each table.
OAR members will be on hand to answer any questions. If you are unsure who your U.S. representative is, an OAR member can help you identify that person.
Once your letters are sealed in addressed envelopes, OAR members will collect them, stamp them, and place them in a basket to be taken to the altar as an offering on the following Sunday, March 23. Then, the letters will be mailed to Washington, D.C.
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Quotation from Bread for the World, Advocate to End Hunger | Bread for the World
Judy Messal