Presbyterian Hunger Program Resources
2010 Presbyterian Hunger Program grants
A list of 2010 Presbyterian Hunger Program grants and projects with short descriptions. Includes International and United States projects. See an interactive map.
A Lenten Fast: From Insight to Action in the Gospel of John Presbyterian Church
In Lent this year, we are asking Presbyterians to sit with what global partners and some U.S. farmers are saying by reading meditations, study questions and analyses that illustrate one aspect of this crisis in five nations for the five Sundays of Lent. If you are able, you may fast for a 40-hour period from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning as we attempt together to discern a way out of the mess humanity has made of God’s world.
A scriptural approach to trade
By Alexa Smith, associate for Joining Hands, PC(USA)
Learn how the Bible deals about issues of trade.
Bulletin Insert: Haiti Response
2012 One Great Hour of Sharing Comprehensive Bulletin Insert
It has been two years since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing, which provides funding for the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP), Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) and the Self-Development of People (SDOP) program, made it possible for the PC(USA) to participate in the rescue and rebuilding of Haiti almost as soon as we heard news of the quake.
Bulletin Insert: Sowing Seeds of Hope
2012 One Great Hour of Sharing PHP bulletin insert
Grants from the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) make a real difference in the lives of people like Pierre from Cameroon. Your gifts to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering allowed PHP to make a difference through grants that changed lives in this country and in countries around the world.
See more: Minute for Mission, Audio Minute for Mission
Cents-Ability Projects 2010
Read about where Cents-Ability funds raised for the Presbyterian Hunger Program were used in 2010. The resource contains short descriptions of each project and organization as well as amount funded.
Cents-ability packet
Use these Cents-Ability materials to help presbyteries and congregations begin and expand hunger education and fund-raising programs.
Brochure
Includes a brief history and explanation of Cents-Ability. Fits in #10 envelope.
Customizable Bulletin Insert
Reproducible sheet with space for congregation or presbytery information.
Can Wrapper
Reproducible design to cover various size cans for use in Cents-Ability offerings.
Logos
Reproducible sheet of various logos used in conjunction with or instead of Cents-Ability to help customize your hunger materials.
Notebook
Information on how to initiate and implement a Cents-Ability program.
Climate Change and its Impacts on the Poor
A workshop presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett from the Presbyterians for Restoring Creation’s National Eco-Justice Conference: Earth Sabbath, Earth Justice: Protecting God's Gifts of Food and Fuel.
Climate Change and our Wacky Food System (PPT)
Workshop presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett for Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary “Mending Our Earth” Teach-In, 2007. In PowerPoint.
Climate Change and our Wacky Food System handout
Workshop presentation handout by Andrew Kang Bartlett for Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary “Mending Our Earth” Teach-In, 2007
Common Affirmation on Global Hunger
The work of the Presbyterian Hunger Presbyterian is guided by the General Assembly-adopted Common Affirmation on Global Hunger.
Confesión de Accra: El pacto por la justicia en la economía y en la tierra
Panfleto que contiene la confesión de Accra adoptada por los delegados de la Alianza Mundial de Iglesias Reformadas durante el Concilio General num. 24 celebrado en Accra, República de Ghana (2004). La iglesia Presbiteriana (EUA) es miembro de esta alianza.
Democracy versus capitalism
Excerpts of Robert Reich’s essay from the Global Food Politics and Economics: Underlying Causes of Hunger presentation.
Eco-Palms Interpretation (PowerPoint)
Use this brief PowerPoint presentation to increase awareness of eco-palms in your congregation, presbytery or synod. Highlights the challenges of the conventional system and follows the sustainable harvesting practices used to get eco-palms from rain forests to your church. Among other uses, you could show it on a laptop as part of an interpretive display during fellowship time on Palm Sunday. Presentation adapted from Lutheran World Relief.
Fair Trade Poster
“Why should trade be fair? / Read a Bible." Print this poster and hang it in your church or home.
Fair trade poster
“Why should trade be fair? / Greed is still a sin." Print this poster and hang it in your church or home.
Fair trade poster
“Why should trade be fair? / Duh." Print this poster and hang it in your church or home.
Food & Faith Practices
Use this guide to learn how to practice "Food and Faith" in your congregation and community
Food Movements Unite! Bible Study
Food Movements Unite! is a challenging, sometimes disturbing and ultimately hopeful book written by people who are working to enlarge and unite food justice movements in the United States and around the world. Part of the book’s premise is that the globalized and industrialized food system is unjust, unsustainable and fundamentally broken. Download this new companion bible study today!
Food Sovereignty (video)
Vulnerable communities in the semi-Saharan Far North Province are thriving through their participation in the RELUFA network's Food Sovereignty program.
Food Sovereignty For All
Create a community garden or other faith-based initiative using the Food Sovereignty for All Handbook for guidance.
Global Food Politics and Economics: Underlying Causes of Hunger
Workshop presentation by Andrew Kang Bartlett during the Presbyterians for Restoring Creation’s National Eco-Justice Conference: Earth Sabbath, Earth Justice: Protecting God's Gifts of Food and Fuel.
Impact Through Seeds
Mission co-worker Mark Hare talks about the impact that seeds – provided in part by the Presbyterian Hunger Program and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance – have had in Haiti’s recovery. The program is about “providing seeds as a way for Haitians to be Haitians” and “providing people options so that they can recover themselves.”
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Just Eating? leader's guide
Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table Leader's Guide is a seven-session curriculum for congregations that explores the relationship between the way we eat and the way we live, published by the Presbyterian Hunger Program. The study uses scripture, prayer and stories from the local and global community to explore five key aspects of our relationship with food:
- the health of our bodies
- the challenge of hunger
- the health of the earth that provides our food
- the ways we use food to extend hospitality and enrich relationships
- the opportunities for action, renewal and transformation in our eating practices-as ...
Just Eating? middle school curriculum
Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table helps young people better understand the relationship between our faith and our food. The curriculum includes fun activities, Bible stories and illustrations in story, song and screen that will challenge teenagers to think about food and our faith in new ways. Just Eating? is also available as a curriculum for adults and high school groups
Just Eating? participants book
Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith at the Table Participants Book is a seven-session curriculum for congregations that explores the relationship between the way we eat and the way we live, published by the Presbyterian Hunger Program. The study uses scripture, prayer and stories from the local and global community to explore five key aspects of our relationship with food:
- the health of our bodies
- the challenge of hunger
- the health of the earth that provides our food
- the ways we use food to extend hospitality and enrich relationships
- the opportunities for action, renewal and transformation in our eating practices-as individuals ...
Just Purchasing? Practicing our Faith at the Market
This guide – produced by Presbyterian Hunger Program, Baltimore Presbytery and SweatFree Communities – provides tools for groups to learn and teach about sweatshop labor and injustices in the apparel industry. It contains educational resources, theological background and a comprehensive list of sweatshop-free clothing vendors. Camps, conference centers and congregations can approve their own “sweatfree” purchasing pledge and use this resource to put their words into action.
Living Wage Workshop Outline
The outline suggests just one way to hold a study session. The outline is intended for an average group (whatever that is). With a group that knows the issues and wants to educate others, you can frame the workshop into one that gives them the tools to hold their own workshops.
Living Wage and Hunger
This is the main powerpoint for your presentation. You can show this with a projector, print the slides up as hand-outs, make color transparencies for an overhead, or view them on the computer with a small group.
Local food letter
Encourage restaurants and markets to carry locally grown and produced foods.
Making Poverty History: Dramas, Simulations and Worship Resources on the Millennium Development Goals
Making Poverty History, a 28-page booklet produced by the Presbyterian Hunger Program and Church World Service, is a collection of simulations, skits and worship activities on hunger and poverty. Activities relate to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG): Hunger and Poverty, Education, Health, Environment/Water and Partners in Development. Each section contains facts on the MDG theme, a story addressing the theme and assorted interactive ways to engage people on that theme.
Minute for Mission: Haiti Response: Two Years Later
It has been two years since the January 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing, which provides funding for the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP), Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) and the Self-Development of People (SDOP) program, made it possible for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to participate in the rescue and rebuilding of Haiti almost as soon as you heard news of the quake...
Download Spanish Version (text only)
Download Korean Version (text only)
New PHP Resources Guide
A two-page, color flyer with the latest and greatest print and online resources from the Hunger Program.
One Great Hour of Sharing transforms families
Monique Baïtal, a mother of six in Cameroon, has felt her burden lifted. Through One Great Hour of Sharing, when she needs grain to feed her family she can get it at the community grain bank. The grain bank helps her community resist selling when their crop prices are too low. With greater control, they’ve even begun building a cushion against hard times. Now her two youngest children are going to school so they will have the choices to which all children are entitled. Read more by downloading this bulletin insert.
PHP Application for International Projects Outside of the United States
This form is meant to serve as a guide to the online form. This form contains the same contents as the online form. You may fill this form out and copy and paste your responses into the online form if you find that helpful. Do not submit this form to the Presbyterian Hunger Program. All international applications are to be submitted via the online form.
PHP Post Newsletter - Advent 2010
PHP Post for Advent 2010.
PHP Post Newsletters - Advent 2011
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Advent 2011.
PHP Post Newsletters - Fall 2011
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Fall 2011.
PHP Post Newsletters - Spring 2009
The Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Spring 2009
PHP Post Newsletters - Spring 2010
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Spring 2010.
PHP Post Newsletters - Spring 2011
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Spring 2011.
PHP Post Newsletters - Spring 2012
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Spring 2012.
PHP Post Newsletters - Summer 2009
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Summer 2009.
PHP Post Newsletters - Summer 2010
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Summer 2010.
PHP Post Newsletters - Summer 2011
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Summer 2011.
PHP Post Newsletters - Winter 2009
The Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Winter 2009.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) grant application - Community Organizing/Housing Funds
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) grant application - Community Organizing/Housing Funds, One Great Hour Of Sharing / Presbyterian Hunger Program / Small Church & Community Ministry
Presbyterian Hunger Program Christmas Card
Your gift to the Hunger Program can also be a gift to a friend or relative this Christmas season. Make your contribution in honor of someone close to you, instead of buying them a present. All you need to do is make a donation to the Hunger Fund, print this card, and give it to them for Christmas. A charitable donation is a gift that respects the true meaning of Christmas.
Presbyterian Hunger Program Grants - 2009
A listing of 2009 Presbyterian Hunger Program grants and projects.
Presbyterian Hunger Program Grants-2011
A listing of 2011 Presbyterian Hunger Program grants and projects.
Presbyterian Hunger Program poster
This poster contains an image of a fish and loaf and the text of Mark 6:37.
RELUFA brochure
RELUFA joins national and international efforts to advocate changes in the current inequitable and disastrous trends of the extractive industries in the Central African region.
Realizing Sustainability
A keynote presentation by Karl R. Rábago from the Presbyterians for Restoring Creation’s National Eco-Justice Conference: Earth Sabbath, Earth Justice: Protecting God's Gifts of Food and Fuel.
Service of World Hunger
The Presbyterian Hunger Program and Joining Hands welcomed five seminary students for a day in January 2011 as part of their J-term course, “Leadership in the Connectional Church,” through the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The students spent the day engaging in conversations with partners worldwide via Skype, learning how current U.S. trade policies are worsening world hunger and poverty. As a part of their coursework, the students produced this worship service resource.
The Federal Budget: How It Works and What Presbyterians Can Do About It
The Presbyterian Washington Office presents a new online resource, "The Federal Budget: How It Works and What Presbyterians Can Do about It."
Trade justice campaigns linked with the fair trade alternative
This manual on fair trade shares how Joining Hands Against Hunger Peru began and maps out what other Joining Hands groups need to do to get started in offering a fair trade alternative as part of broader trade justice campaign.
U.S. application instructions (PDF)
Application instructions for U.S. grants.
Videos On Hunger, Food Systems And Globalization
Videos on global hunger and poverty and the underlying causes. Videos are available for lending to Presbyterians wishing to show them at your church, community event or house party.
Waters Of Creation Kairos
These are resources and suggestions from the Church of Canada for an ecumenical service of worship that can be used in whole or in part; simply choose what you need. For use in your regular service of worship, in a special ecumenical service, in your meetings or gatherings, or for personal reflection.
What does the Reformed tradition say about trade? (Part 1) (Video)
Hear what Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary scholar David Jensen says about how the Reformed tradition gives us simple principles to evaluate a complex subject like trade.
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What does the Reformed tradition say about trade? (Part 1) (video)
Reformed scholar Don McKim talks about Calvin’s understanding of greed in our personal and public lives, a key theological concept for fairness in trade policy.
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What does the Reformed tradition say about trade? (Part 2) (video)
Was Calvin a capitalist?
Hear what Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary scholar David Jensen says about how the Reformed tradition gives us simple principles to evaluate a complex subject like trade.
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What does the Reformed tradition say about trade? (Part 2) (video)
Reformed scholar Don McKim talks about Calvin’s understanding of greed in our personal and public lives, a key theological concept for fairness in trade policy.
For best results, right-click the Download link (or click and use "control" key for Macintosh) and save the file.
What does the Reformed tradition say about trade? (Part 3) (video)
What does the Reformed tradition says about business and trade?
Hear what Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary scholar David Jensen says about how the Reformed tradition gives us simple principles to evaluate a complex subject like trade.
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What does the Reformed tradition say about trade? (Part 4) (video)
Do we have faith concerns about trade relationships as they relate to fair economic outcomes?
Hear what Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary scholar David Jensen says about how the Reformed tradition gives us simple principles to evaluate a complex subject like trade.
For best results, right-click the Download link (or click and use "control" key for Macintosh) and save the file.
Worship Guide on Trade and Globalization
This worship guide includes a complete order of service about trade justice, which can be used in full or in part. Originally designed for the 2005 Global Week of Action but can be used any time.
¿Alimentándose Justamente?
¿Alimentándose Justamente? Poniendo en práctica nuestra fe cuando estamos sentados a la mesa
¿Alimentándose Justamente? - Lecturas para la reflexión y la acción
¿Alimentándose Justamente? Poniendo en práctica nuestra fe cuando estamos sentados a la mesa. Lecturas para la reflexión y la acción.