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Meal Eleven - Nepal

Spotlight on Nepal

Region: Asia
Population: 29,391,883 (July 2011 estimate)
Country slightly larger than Arkansas
Life Expectancy: total population: 66.16 years

Printable Table Tent

Download and print this table tent, designed for the Nepal meal. This table tent includes conversation starters and information about your gifts to ELCA World Hunger in action.
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Placemats

Download, print and use different placemats during your Lenten meals to raise awareness about hunger, poverty and related issues.

Program

This 30-minute program, specifically designed for the Nepal meal, contains a reading, litany, monologue, prayers and discussion questions.

Table Prayer

This food is the gift of God. May the energy in this food give me the strength to serve. Amen.

Story: Laxmi

Laxmi was only 6 years old when she told a GoodWeave inspector that she had to work to survive...

Read the full story.

Download and share this bulletin insert.

Local Recipes

Popular foods in Nepal include mushroom curry, pulao (fried rice), samosa, and gajar ko (carrot pudding. Find these recipes and more at www.food-nepal.com.

Skip the Coffee. Feed the Hungry.

Many are familiar with the tradition of giving something up during Lent. Last year, Pastor Steve Biegner of Zion Lutheran Church in Clarence Center, N.Y., decided to add something to his Lenten tradition. For 40 days, he stopped drinking coffee. And in its place, he gave whatever money he normally spent to support ELCA World Hunger.

“What does giving up coffee have to do with my relationship with God?” Pastor Steve asked. “Nothing. But focusing on the problem of hunger does. It helps ‘enlighten my eye’ to the ongoing problem.”

He placed a large, empty pickle jar outside the sanctuary of his church and asked others to join him. Each day, members of the congregation would sacrifice their favorite morning beverage and save the money they would have spent. By Easter Sunday, the pickle jar was full of donations to help end hunger and poverty.