{"id":1104,"date":"2014-03-18T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uucsv.org\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:48:45","slug":"no-peace-in-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"No Peace in Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m reposting this from my personal blog<\/a>. Encountering the local hunger problem has been life-altering for me.<\/p>\n

So often when we hear \u201cpoverty\u201d we don\u2019t understand the word or its grinding nature. Many of us talk easily about sources of poverty, but we overlook the daily realities of it. We talk too easily about the problems with the poor rather how we can make a difference.<\/p>\n

In my region part of that ugly reality of poverty is hungry kids.<\/p>\n

It took a \u201cperfect storm\u201d for me to see it. After my sister\u2019s death I was so sad. When the house voted not to allow the SNAP subsidy to lapse, I was driven quite literally to my knees in my living room. Knowing that a substantial part of our elected officials did not find people worthy of food knocked my pins out from under me.<\/p>\n

I turned to my thinking team at UUCSV. I didn\u2019t have an idea in my head, just pain. Scott, our church treasurer, got the hunger statistics. The rest of us were stunned. The crowd that had driven the Staten Island project batted around ideas. Most of them were far too grandiose. We knew we wanted this year\u2019s project to be local. And now we knew we wanted it to be food. Last year we\u2019d raised funds for the local food pantry. We knew we could do that again, and did. We started talking to other churches, finding out what they were doing, making a list.<\/p>\n

And then we heard about the back-pack program. They\u2019re all over the country, Love help us, because there is child hunger everywhere. Turns out, our local school district had just started a program. We talked about it in church, there was a huge outpouring of money. We had our purpose. We just needed to figure out where to step up so that we could do the most good.<\/p>\n

This has turned into a huge project with a lot of pieces, few of which are yet in place. But huge projects take time. You\u2019ll hear more from me, about what we\u2019re doing, but in the meantime, you can help if you want to. Go here<\/a> to read about this and to donate. There\u2019s more information that will show up on the website soon\u2026 that\u2019s one of those projects currently underway, but it\u2019s a start. We want to help lots of school districts start these projects and we want to help fund them.<\/p>\n

Feeding the hungry is concrete Peacemaking. Please join us.<\/p>\n

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I’m reposting this from my personal blog. Encountering the local hunger problem has been life-altering for me. So often when we hear \u201cpoverty\u201d we don\u2019t understand the word or its grinding nature. Many of us talk easily about sources of poverty, but we overlook the daily realities of it. We talk too easily about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uucsv.jordicomas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}