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06/25/2009

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An effective response to hunger must combine private and public actions, neither can do the job alone. Christians have worked well in the private arena, Bread for the World provides a means where Christians can work equally well for effective public policies in the fight against hunger...

Monthly Online Meeting for Bread for the World Oregon

Tuesday, June 30 @ 8pm

To participate either: 

1) Skype me at Mike.Hiland

2) Call me at 503-925-5097

For meeting agenda: Click here

We are starting a monthly online conference meeting for the Oregon group. This will allow people to participate from home using their computer and/or phone. The meeting will last no longer than an hour. To participate, open your web browser and click on the meeting agenda link above. Then either Skype in to me at Mike.Hiland, or call me at 503-925-5097. 

You can get and use skype for free by going to www.skype.com and downloading it (you'll also need to get a headset - available from the website). Skype allows you to make free phone calls using your computer to anyone who also has skype (no long distance charges)(for a small charge you can also call regular phones from skype or have regular phones call into your skype account).

You dont need to RSVP, but I'd like to get an idea of how many people will be participating. Please email me to RSVP.

Events:
  • Goals - Small Groups: Our goal for the next year is to start numerous small groups based in local neighborhood's, towns, schools, or church's. The idea is to meet for 1 hour each month to discuss and take an action around hunger related issues. Check the small group resource page for downloadable leaders guides, sample meeting agendas and sample letters. Please contact me for information on how to get started. I will post a page with topic ideas for each months meetings and give access to our blog for announcements and comments from the groups. (more details)

  • Bread Oregon Blog: Latest Posts  (View the blog)

  • Email Webforms (click the links to contact your representative through throgh their webforms):  Wu, Blumenauer, Schrader, Wyden, Merkley. Baird. DeFazio. Walden.
  • Chat: Contact me to setup a time to meet in our chat room, the chat tool is at the bottom of this page Chat Meetings

2009 Offering of Letters

We are preparing to launch the 2009 Offering of Letters on Reforming Foreign Aid in January.  Our 2009 Offering of Letters will urge Congress to rework U.S. foreign assistance to make it more effective in reducing poverty.  At a time of economic constraint, we have a long-awaited opportunity to make U.S. foreign assistance more effective and get more of our aid to people who really need it.  If foreign aid is fixed, more lives can be saved.  Fewer children will die of hunger.  Parents will be able to feed their families in the years to come.  Better foreign aid also means less waste.  We will be asking Congress to bring U.S. foreign assistance up to date and ensure that development is elevated as a national priority, alongside defense and diplomacy.

Bread for the World has had sent groups go to Ethiopia and Nicaragua to gather stories to create this year’s Offering of Letters DVD.  Recently David Beckman spoke about the hunger crisis and Foreign Assistance Reform on Voice of America.  You can listen here.  As well, there was a very good story on NPR’s All Thing’s Considered with about foreign aid and the next administration.  Listen here.   There are good background papers by Bread for the World policy analysts online (you might want to build a study group around these).

1.    Global Development:  Charting a New Course by Todd Post.

2.    Reforming Foreign Aid by Charles Uphaus


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Jubilee Debt Relief Blog

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Conduct an Offering of Letters at your church

An offering of letters, is a letter writing event held at a church or campus urging our representatives to support effective action against hunger. For churches interested in planning an Offering of Letters, you can:

Bread is also active on many college campus' (its where I first heard of Bread many moons ago).

Hunger Issues Speaker

We are also available to come and speak before your church or group. Some ideas include: Adult Sunday School, Young Adults Group, Minute for Mission, Guest Sermon, Letter writing table, etc. Contact me (Mike Hiland) for more information. 
Review the sample presentation.

Additional Resources

Justice and the Bible

Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out; judge righteously. Defend the rights of the poor and the needy. (Proverbs 31:8-9)

Keep Informed:

  • You can signup for the National or Oregon Bread ENewsletters above, or to receive the monthly advocacy alert focusing on Oregon state government hunger issues send your name, address and email to: advocacy@oregonfoodbank.org

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Chat Meetings

To chat with me just edit your nickname below and type in a message. I am online if the Breador user appears.
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