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Remember the Hungry this Lent
 This year your congregation can host Wednesday night Lenten meals and help fight hunger at the same time. Enjoy global cuisine. Learn about different parts of the world. Discover how gifts to ELCA World Hunger are making a difference.
Visit www.elca.org/hunger/lent for complete plans (including global recipes, table tents, table prayers and discussion starters) for six different meals. Instead of charging for the meal, collect donations to support ELCA World Hunger.
New from ELCA World Hunger
 Sneak Peak: ELCA World Hunger Resource Packet
Later this month, every congregation and synod will receive the new ELCA World Hunger Resource Packet. The packet includes free samples of new resources that are specially designed to help your group take action against hunger, including the new ELCA World Hunger Video Series on DVD.
Take a sneak peak. Visit the ELCA Resource Catalog to view new resources as they are made available. Remember
to check back throughout the month.
Sign up. Make sure you receive future editions of the ELCA World Hunger Resource Packet at home. Sign up today. It's free!
 Health Care Bulletin
This new, eight page brochure highlights the health care
work of ELCA World Hunger and related campaigns -- the ELCA HIV and AIDS Campaign and the ELCA Malaria Campaign.
Order the brochure.
Give It a Try
 Souper Bowl of Caring
On Sunday, February 6, nearly 100 million Americans are expected to tune in to watch the Super Bowl. At the same time, nearly one billion people around the world will be hungry.
The Souper Bowl of Caring is an ecumenical, youth-led movement that unites young people around a single cause: to end hunger. More than 2,000 Lutheran youth groups participate every year. Is yours one of them?
It's easy to get involved. Congregational efforts might include fund raisers, food drive or a service event. The money you raise can be donated to the charity of your choice. To make a local and global impact -- consider a 50/50 split! Give half to a local charity and half to ELCA World Hunger, where where your gifts will have an impact throughout the rest of the United States and world.
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- First Lutheran Church of Rugby, N. Dakota, made the local news for their efforts to raise more than $1,000 for God's Global Barnyard -- the animal projects of ELCA World Hunger. Special thanks to the fifth and sixth graders who made this possible!
- Worship, learn and lobby with faith advocates from around the country at Ecumenical Advocacy Days, March 25-28 in Washington, D.C. This year's theme is "Development, Security and Economic Justice: What's Gender Got to Do With It?" Details on Lutheran fellowship time and scholarship opportunities are coming soon.
- Is your congregation or synod active in the fight against hunger and poverty? Tell us what you're up to. E-mail Laury.Rinker@elca.org.
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