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Information and Links for Pastor Shannan's Sermon on September 18th
9/18/2011
Presbyterian Hunger Program The national programs of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to fight hunger and its causes. We support this program through our One Great Hour of Sharing Offering each spring.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers This is the group of workers Pastor Shannan described in her sermon. Their website is highly informative and tells the story of their successful campaigns against hunger and for fair-worker practices.
Information about Fair-Food Campaigns that the Presbyterian Church (USA) is taking in regards to Publix Supermarkets, Taco Bell, and Trader Joes.
US Census Data on Poverty in the United States.
Questions from Pastor Shannan's Sermon:
"The task before us as Christians living in the world that we are a part of today is very hard work. It means we have to get educated on what is going on around us. It means we have to study and know the Bible and what God’s call to us is. And then it means we have to connect all those dots and then engage in faithful personal living and choices—and community action."
What is God calling us to do?
How is God asking us to recognize the blessings in our lives so that we can be a part of reversing the cycle of desperation in the lives of others—creating a new way of living—a way of abundance, rather than a way of scarcity and hoarding?
What is God calling us to do?
What sort of a system, what sort of a society have we created?
Does it resemble the sort of culture that God would want for us to have?
Do we need a new Moses or a new Aaron to lead us into a new reality?
How can we as people of faith take a critical look at what is going on around us, in places far off and places near to home—and be courageous enough to name the evil and the sin-sick system that we are live in?
How as people who follow God should we work against or even resist this sort of a system?
1 in 6 children in our country live in poverty. What would God want us to say and do about that?