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.

UM Men's Renewal Retreat

Friday-Sunday, October 1-3, 2010
Prescott, AZ

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All the King's Men explores what it looks like to serve God as our King in the spheres of lives He has given us to impact. Instead of expounding a long list of principles or making men feel guilty for ways they haven't measured up, this retreat will look at three simple (but-often unknown) "load-bearing" truths about who God made us to be. As these biblical truths take root in men's lives, they bear fruit in profound and lasting ways. Specific attention is paid to what it looks like to live out these truths in various real-world circumstances that many men find themselves in on a regular basis.

1. The King's Call (Luke 5:1-11) - We all know we were made for more. We feel it and we struggle with the undeniable sensation that we're somehow not living the life we were made for.
2. In the King's Image (Gen. 1 & 2, cf 1:26-28) - God made us for a purpose, for a task that is so big and so...cool, that we miss it because we can't believe it. We skim right over it because we can't believe that he could have made us for that.
3. In the King's Name (Luke 9:46-53) - The real tragedy of sin is not only that it cuts us off from our Creator, but that it deafens us to His dreams for us.
4. In the King's House (Rev. 21) - What God made us for and redeemed us for, he has also destined us for. God's word is clear - "heaven" is bigger, brighter and better than anything we can even begin to wrap our heads around.

We are the King's men.
And it is time to step into the breach.

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