LutheranWorldHunger - Rehoboth Evangelical Lutheran Church

Lutheran World Hunger

ELCA World Hunger improves the lives of people in need in the United States and around the world by:

providing immediate relief for people affected by chronic hunger and poverty;
assisting whole communities through long-term, sustainable development to help alleviate chronic hunger and poverty
advocating for justice by changing laws and systems
educating members of the ELCA in awareness of issues relating to hunger, poverty and justice

All money raised by the World Hunger Appeal comes through specially designated offerings and donations from ELCA members, congregations, and friends. ELCA World Hunger receives no benevolence (general budget money from general ELCA member offerings). Fund raising efforts are directed by the World Hunger Appeal, but the ELCA's daily world hunger ministry is based in congregations, where most of the fund raising takes place.

Click on the logo to the left to go to the ELCA World Hunger website.

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Rehoboth’s Mission Month of May

During May of 2008, our Sunday School and Mission Committee will be doing an outreach project. We have chosen The Global Barnyard. During the entire month of May, we will be collecting money to help poverty-stricken families by purchasing animals for them. Animals provide a multitude of benefits including food (i.e. eggs from chickens and milk from cows and goats, etc.), income from animal related products (they can sell their extra eggs and milk and offspring, etc.), manure for growing crops, and the means to support and feed their families. Animals provide hungry families with food, funds, and fertilizer – all for a better future.

Children in our Sunday School will be given a coin collection box. Order forms will be available in the newsletter, out in the narthex and in May’s bulletins. There will also be a collection box out in the narthex as part of the Global Barnyard display. Please place your donations in the World Hunger envelopes (please include an order form if you are ordering a specific animal). You may place your donation in the collection plate during worship service, place it in the collection box in the narthex, send it to the church, or hand it to either Dennis or Julie Whalen or Lori Shoup.

We will kickoff this project the first week of May and collect donations throughout the month. You may opt to purchase specific animals or offer a general donation. All general donations will be added up at the end of the month to purchase the most expensive animal that the money will buy. Further information will be available in the narthex or contact Dennis & Julie Whalen or Lori Shoup. You can also go online at http://www.elca.org/hunger/stories/barnyard.html and read more about this mission opportunity.

Let’s partner with thousands of congregations who are bringing hope and healing to all parts of the world which offer ongoing sources of sustenance and support. Your gift shines a rainbow of hope and healing across the world. When many join together, we can make a big difference.

Lutheran World Hunger - How far will your money go?

The charts below provide comparisons of what certain dollar amounts could buy for a resident of the United States vs. someone in need in another country. You'll also find examples of what your gifts to the World Hunger Appeal provide.

Can You Spare a Dime?

U.S. item	Amount	Someone in need
One or two sticks of gum	10 cents	One feeding for a baby in a refugee camp
The Sunday newspaper	$1-2	Food for a day for an AIDS orphan or street child in South America or Africa
3-4 video rentals	$10	Ships quilts or health kits to a family of five who lost everything in an earthquake or flood
One day's vacation expenses	$100	Helps introduce the "magic pea" in Ethiopia
A new computer	$1,000	3-4 small business loans from the "God-is-love Piggy Bank" in Peru
A used car or motorcycle	$10,000	Four months of building and training in a comprehensive irrigation project in Africa

Quarters Save Lives!

Number of quarters Amount Someone in need
1-2 25-50 cents Food for a baby in a refugee camp in Tanzania or Angola
4 $1 "Daily bread" for an orphan in Zimbabwe or Malawi
40 $10 A small grove of trees to protect the soil from erosion in Zambia
400 $100 Cashew trees in a school garden in Mozambique
1,000 $250 A pair of barnyard goats in Uganda
2,000 $500 A high-yielding cow in Kenya
20,000 $5,000 A month's support for an irrigation project in Ethiopia

Multiples of $1

U.S. item Amount Someone in need
McDonald's cheeseburger $1 Ships one sewing kit to a refugee camp
Ticket to a baseball game $10 Enough maize, bean, and groundnut seeds for a Mozambiquan family to replant after floods
VCR or DVD player $100 Protection for four acres of land in West Africa (rock dikes for soil and water conservation)
New living-room furniture $1,000 Complete pre-natal care for 125 women
Used car $10,000 Nets and equipment for 60 fish farmers in Tanzania
Four-year education at
a private university $100,000 Tents to shelter 1,000 families of four in an emergency
Any luxury you want! $1,000,000 Land and building for a school for blind Palestinian women in Jerusalem

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