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How chickens can change lives this Easter

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	Great Ideas for Easter Easter chicks and fluffy ducklings abound at Easter time -- what better time to bless a family in need with the gift of chicks or ducks that can help fight hunger? A chick, starting a just $1, can bring a family with an abundance of protein-rich eggs to eat and sell on the market. At $20, a duck is the best pesticide around -- eating all of the insects that harm a farmer's crops, while fertilizing the fields at the same time. Here's how your congregation can help. Host an ELCA Good Gifts Fair on or leading up to Easter Sunday and invite members to buy chicks and ducks in honor of friends and loved ones. They make great additions to Easter baskets! Start a buck-a-chick sale during Lent. For $1, allow members to purchase and decorate paper chicks. Hang colorful chicks in a prominent spot and announce the total raised on Easter Sunday. Does your congregation host an Easter egg hunt? Ask families to donate a chick ($1) for each egg they find. Learn more about ELCA Good Gifts that fight hunger. New from ELCA World Hunger Reproducible Stories Use these reproducible stories in your Sunday bulletins, newsletters and other communications to highlight the life-changing work made possible by gifts to ELCA World Hunger and ELCA Disaster Response. Meet Jauvalda in Haiti \| Order the stories Download the stories Give It a Try Play Malaria Jeopardy Question: It costs this much to provide a bed net and training to protect against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Answer: What is ten dollars? Malaria Jeopardy is a hit with youth and adults alike! Teach your congregation about the biological and theological implications of malaria and learn what the ELCA is doing about it. The Malaria Jeopardy PowerPoint presentation and more activities are available at www.elca.org/malaria. Prepare for flood season An extra snowy winter after a wet autumn means there’s strong chance for major flooding all around the Midwest this spring. What better time than now to get ready? To learn more about how to prepare your congregation and your members for flooding, visit Lutheran Disaster Response. And to keep current on the disaster response work of this church in the United States and Caribbean, "like" Lutheran Disaster Response on Facebook. Bulletin Board Members of Elim Lutheran Church in Ogden, Utah, hosted a creative fundraiser for ELCA World Hunger this month: a chili cookoff! Members and guests casted their votes for their favorite recipe by putting their donations into a collection jar next to each pot of homemade chili. Thanks for the great idea! Is your congregation, synod or community 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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