World Hunger Resources
Children's Resources:
- Feeding the Five Thousand - a children's message based on the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000
- God Gives Presents - a children's message based on the story of Elisha and the widow's jars that reminds us that God provides for his children.
- So That Everybody Has Enough - a children's message based on Micah 6:8 that encourages children to share their blessings
- You can help bring real change - a children's message that encourages children to fill their Peter Fish banks with change, and to also think of the change that they can create in tthe world.
Liturgy Suggestions:
- A Place At The Table - suggestions for a World Communion Service
- Developing a Heart for the Hungry - a primer
- Feeding Of The Multitude - suggestions for a communion service on World Hunger Sunday
- The Bread of Deliverance - service suggestions applicable to World Hunger Sunday
- There was no one needy among them - service suggestions applicable to World Hunger Sunday
Prayers & Litany Suggestions:
- A World At Prayer - several small prayers from various countries around the world
- Evangelical Lutheran Church litany #1
- Evangelical Lutheran Church litany #2
- Let us love justice, love mercy, and walk humbly
- Litany and prayer for ending hunger
- Micah Challenge: Anti-poverty prayers
- Prayer for daily bread
- Prayer for overcoming poverty
- Prayer to make poverty history
- Prayer for World Hunger Sunday
- World Hunger Sunday litany
Sermon and Scripture Suggestions:
- A Free banquet - a reflection on Isaiah 55:1-2
- Biblical Basics of Justice - an overview of what the Bible says about pursuing justice
- Biblical References relating to hunger
- Bread, Stone or Snake: A lesson in helping the poor - a lesson by CRWRC's Mary Crickmore
- Gifts of Bread and Power - a Lenten sermon based on Deut. 26:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13
- Rejoicing in the Harvest - a reflection on John 4:34-38
- Scripture reflection on 1 John 3:17
- Scripture reflection on Matthew 9:36
- The Lord's Requirement - a reflection on Micah 6:1-8
Song Suggestions
- Where Is Bread - lyrics for a song that is appropriate for World Hunger Sunday.
- World Hunger Service- songs from the Psalter Hymnal and Sing! A New Creation that would be appropriae for World Hunger Sunday.
Youth Resources
- A Chair for Everyone - an activity that uses chairs to demonstrate the unequal distirbution of resources in our world
- Enough for Everyone - This activity builds on the Food Distribution Exercise. In this game, students play a variation of musical chairs where they are encouraged to work together to share increasingly limited resources.
- FAST Forward - a 24-hour Fast for world hunger. Everything you need to hold your own FAST is available free of charge.
- Food Distribution Exercise - This activity and discussion guide provides a visual example of how the world’s food and wealth are distributed.
- Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (Secondary level) - a curriculum to teach about hunger and injustice.
- God's Banquet - dramas and interpretive readings for youth about hunger
- Hunger No More - a uniquely cooperative effort of 23 churches and organizations, to get people talking about issues related to hunger, poverty, and powerlessness. Click here for online content. Don’t be afraid to check out the "children’s resources", some of them would be great for youth and adults too. You can also order paper copies by Contacting the CRC Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action.
- The World at the Table - host a dinner for your youth group or church that no one will forget, by serving people food portions that illustrate the injustice of food/wealth distribution in our world.
- What is the tune we March to - a variant on "musical chairs" that helps to show the injustice of the distribution of wealth in our world
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