World Food Day is Oct. 16!

How will you honor World Food Day?

We all have a role to play in ending hunger, and World Food Day is a great opportunity to gather your community together and do something big to tackle hunger and poverty. Set a goal to raise money for an ELCA Good Gifts bundle or use ELCA World Hunger resources to learn more about global hunger and inspire innovative projects in your community.

When we work together, we can build a just world where all are fed.

Set a goal for World Food Day!

ELCA Good Gifts are a smart and sustainable way to address the root causes of hunger for communities in need around the world. Bundles such as “Climate resilience kit” or “Abundant community” offer a collection of innovative tools that can lift up communities far into the future.

Activities and Resources

Use these resources from ELCA World Hunger to learn more about the issue of hunger and inspire innovative solutions in your community.

“Hunger Leader 101: What Is a Hunger Leader?”

The “Hunger Leader 101” course is for anyone with a passion for tackling hunger and injustice. From this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the role hunger leaders play in ELCA World Hunger’s mission to end hunger at its root causes; you may even see yourself in this call to support, network and organize around antipoverty ministry.

“Intersections: Justice Ministry With ELCA Partners”

This short documentary explores stories from three ELCA companion ministries — in Cambodia, Mexico and Milwaukee, Wis. — as they respond to the overlapping root causes of hunger in the United States and around the world.

“Action Guide for Congregations”

This action guide will equip you with the newest and most popular ELCA resources to activate your congregation as you serve your community.

“At the Table” Vacation Bible School

“At the Table” gives congregations tools that will grow their ability to advocate for their neighbors through storytelling. It can be used as both a traditional, child-focused curriculum and an intergenerational program. A bilingual version in English and Spanish is available for order.

Generation Zero-Hunger Interactive Journey

With your youth group or congregation, use this interactive role-playing guide to appreciate the challenges faced by a family in Nepal as they seek a sustainable livelihood.

ELCA World Hunger Advent Resources

Join ELCA World Hunger for Advent! This season’s Advent calendar and devotional from ELCA World Hunger invite us to strengthen our relationships with our neighbors by sharing our abundance. The Advent resources provide tools for your community to celebrate those you are connected to, near and far, and to strengthen your bonds. Visit ELCA.org/WHAdvent to download and order the ELCA World Hunger Advent calendar, devotional and other resources.

ELCA World Hunger Daily Bread Grant applications open today!

All ELCA congregations with feeding ministries are invited to apply! ELCA World Hunger’s Daily Bread Grants support congregations and their partners as they work toward a just world where all are fed. These grants supplement existing food-based ministries, providing daily bread for neighbors who experience hunger.

Applications open today, Oct. 1, and will remain open until Wednesday, Oct. 21, at midnight Central time. Feeding ministries that receive Daily Bread Grants are awarded $500.

Interested in supporting a Daily Bread Grant?

This ELCA Good Gift supports one of many feeding ministries in congregations and communities across the country as they serve warm meals and stock food pantries, providing nourishment to families in their communities.

Prayers and Hymns for World Food Day

God of provision and plenty, you bless us and call us your own. Help us share your abundant love with people who are oppressed, hungry and experiencing homelessness. Open our hearts and hands to the needs of others.
Hear us, O God.
Your mercy is great.
Amen.
ELCA World Hunger

Holy God, as you have accompanied your people through times of captivity, wilderness, and exile, shelter and sustain all those who flee persecution, oppression, warfare, violence, hunger, and poverty. Open our hearts and homes, our gates and doors, so that they find safety, peace, and welcome — a place to live in freedom and without fear; through Jesus Christ, our refuge and our hope.
Amen.
All Creation Sings

“En este mundo por doquier habrá gente que llora y sin consolar. Sea que ayudemos o que alimentemos, somos del Señor.” / “Across this wide world, we shall always find those who are crying with no peace of mind; and when we help them, or when we feed them, we belong to God.”
(“Pues Si Vivimos”/“When We Are Living,” ELW 639)

“You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat. Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat. You give yourself to us, O Lord; then selfless let us be, to serve each other in your name in truth and charity.”
(“You Satisfy the Hungry Heart,” ELW 484)