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Advocacy

What if people in power could hear your voice?

 
 ELCA advocacy ministry speaks for biblical values: peacemaking, hospitality to strangers, care for creation, and concern for people living in poverty and struggling with hunger and disease. Explore these pages for issues that interest you.

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Lutherans believe advocacy is a public witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ where the Church speaks with and on behalf of others in need.

ELCA advocacy works for change in public policy based on the experience of Lutheran ministries, programs, and projects around the world and in communities across the United States. Be a part of the ELCA advocacy effort by signing up for the e-Advocacy network.

The advocacy office takes position consistent with ELCA social policy language, and with reference to this church's membership in ecumenical and international bodies.
 


Issue Areas

Voice what’s important to you!

Help frame ELCA advocacy work by completing the ELCA Advocacy National Priorities survey. By completing this short, four-question survey, you help the church’s advocacy ministries facilitate this active and growing network of Lutherans.

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Circle of Protection

In the face of historic deficits, the nation faces unavoidable choices about how to balance needs and resources and allocate burdens and sacrifices. These choices are economic, political — and moral. The ELCA is a charter member of the Circle of Protection, a coalition committed to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity and rights of poor and vulnerable people at home and abroad. Learn more about the Circle of Protection.


 

Food, Farms, Faith

HFVR greenFood is a basic need. Students and teachers need to eat, as do senior citizens and day-care children. Republicans and Democrats need to eat. Veterans and construction workers, insurance agents and journalists need to eat.

Food not only sustains our bodies, but so much of the economy relates to the processes by which we grow, harvest, transport, cook, bake, package, distribute, sell and buy what we eat. “Give us this day our daily bread ….” | Read more » 



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