Speak Up for Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves

Speak Up for Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves

We are moved by God's grace in Jesus Christ
To work for justice for hungry people.
They may be in the next house. Or in the next country.
No matter where they live, they are our neighbors.
And we have the power to help.1

Join Bread for the World. Just as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes to feed the crowd; we need to multiply bread to feed the world’s hungry. You can follow in Jesus footsteps as a member of Bread for the World. This organization was founded in 1974 to lobby Congress and to recruit volunteers to contact their Congressmen and women. The good that our collective letters, phone calls, and e-mails to Congress can do is inconceivable. Bread for the World is an Organization with 56,000 members from diverse Christian traditions and various political outlooks. Their goal is the goal of Proverbs 31:8-9, to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Through Bread for the World, we feed the gaunt whose stomachs gnaw within them.
As individual members of Saint Patrick’s, we could do well to join Bread for the World. It’s true that we contribute to our soup kitchen, gather up canned food for special hunger appeals, and put money in the collection box for special events — but we also know that a single decision by Congress or the President can make it possible that the world’s hungry be fed.
St. Patrick’s parishioners wrote letters last year under a campaign promoted by Bread for the World. Kay Barnett, a member of the organization, set a time and provided materials to write letters to our district’s representative and senators urging Congress to pass a good farm bill. A good farm bill would have the right provisions to grow food for hungry people around the world as well as making it more possible for third world countries to feed their own. Many of our parishioners wrote letters.
You can join Bread for the World and, with thousands of others, you will bring about action in Congress. You will receive Bread for the World’s newsletter that contains information about bills; receive sample letters and addresses of Members of Congress; and receive information about actions you can take such as letters, phone calls, and e-mails. To join send $25.00 along with your name and address to Bread for the World, 50 F Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20001, phone 800-82 bread, or go online http://www.bread.org/join/.
Did you know that in Vigo County, according to the 2006 American Community Survey taken by the U.S. Census Bureau, one out of four and one-half persons in Vigo County lives below the poverty level? For these poor and all the world’s poor, we must respond to our humanity by joining Bread for the World to strengthen the organization and to join with them as we all work with the U.S. Congress to fill the gnawing hunger of the destitute.It is our mission to help our neighbors. Wherever they live,They are hungry.And we are Bread for the World.¹
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1www.bread.org