World Hunger Leadership Gathering - Mexico

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Comment by Erika Lehmann on February 3, 2010 at 11:26am

It's great that you could help so many people, Scott, but so sad that the issues we studied in Mexico have to be illustrated in your backyard. 1000 people in Sioux City, IA will be losing their jobs soon as a meat packing plant is closing. It is largely Hispanics who will be looking for new employment, probably here in South Dakota, but there's not much available.

Comment by Scott M. Carpenter on February 3, 2010 at 10:01am

Greetings to everyone, we have a town about 20 miles from Rochester that has been hit with layoffs and job loss. The biggest employer in town lost their business to fire which landed 140 people, mostly Mexicans and mostly undocumented, without jobs. The company wanted to rebuild there but the red tape with the federal government over undocumented workers and it forced the company to leave town. A month ago another chicken processing plant went out of business and another 40 people lost their jobs. I got a call from the lady who runs the local food shelf and she said "Scott we need to do something", she went on to say that "the people are so down that they need something to brighten their spirit, too lift them up". So 3 days after that phone call we took a truck load of food the people. Each family got 100# of, bread, cereal, Maseca, vegetables, potatoes, vegetable oil and much more. The event was covered by the press and when they interviewed the lady from the food shelf I heard her say "when people come in they don't come for food they coming hoping I can find a job for them". They don't want handouts, they want to earn a living, it's really that simple. Now thats not to say that the people weren't apprecitive for the food they got. Everyone was so thankful and couldn't show their gratitude enough. I thought about Mexico, as I watched them get their food, and all the work there is to do there but I felt so connected to what we saw and did in Mexico and my commitment is still to help the people of Mexico even here in the tundra.
God is Good

Comment by Rev. Joseph A. Miller on January 14, 2010 at 7:15am

Mission accomplished! The "Hymnals for Mexico" project is being completed as I write. My congregation gave enough contributions to purchase 15 copies of the ELW (English) and 15 copies of the Spanish hymnal for the Lutheran Center. Professor Martha Sloltz from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and her group are each carrying a copy of each hymnal in their suitcases. Kim Erno will get the rest when he visits his daughter in San Francisco. The ELCA bulletin insert, prayers, etc. for Haiti are excellent. Be sure to download them for local use. Thanks for your partnership in the Gospel in this new year!

Comment by David Creech on January 11, 2010 at 3:24pm

I will be at the Hearts 4 Justice Conference as well. Let try to connect! Since I did not get to meet any of you in Mexico (I was home with my new little one), I will look forward to meeting you in San Diego!

Comment by Ronald Kempe on January 11, 2010 at 2:43pm

Thanks for the articles. It makes it easy to share, as I did at our Synod Hunger Committee meeting Saturday. We have a good group. We have at least 4 people from our synod attending the Hearts 4 Justice conference in San Diego/Tijuana next week. And, in conjunction with the Global Mission Committee we are planning a multisynodical Friday Evening-Saturday symposium in October with a goal of 300 people. (Kristie Neklason is on the planning committee.) We did multi-synodical one last February with Bishop Hanson as our keynoter.

Comment by Nancy Michaelis on January 11, 2010 at 2:09pm

Here's another article from one of our group! Thanks to Carol McDivitt for writing about the Mexico trip. Her article is in the attached file.
Daily Bread January 2010.pdf

Comment by Erika Lehmann on January 7, 2010 at 6:21pm

What a great newsletter and wonderful article. I feel inspired! Great work, Joene.

Comment by Nancy Michaelis on January 7, 2010 at 11:47am

Hey, Joene! Nice article in the Southern Ohio Synod newsletter about Mexico! For anyone who wants to read it, you can download a copy of the newsletter here, and Joene's article begins on page 6.

Comment by Deacon Dick Thyden on December 28, 2009 at 12:37pm

Christmas Greetings to you all. Our holiday was hampered by a two foot deeo
snowfall just prior to our Christmas Day Free Holiday Dinner. Nevertheless 130
of our guests managed to make it, enabling us to combine the fight against hunger
with the celebration of the birth of the Christ child. It's too bad that 12 turkeys
and 12 hogs had to meet their maker but it went for a good cause.
a Happy,prosperous and blessed New Year to you all

Comment by Nancy Michaelis on December 28, 2009 at 10:24am

Thanks to all of you for your faithful dedication to this work! I can't tell you how exciting it is to read your comments here and get a sense of all the amazing efforts that are happening around the country. Sincerely, thank you for the difference you are making!!

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