Hunger is at the heart of being human. People hunger for food, for love, for belonging and for Christ himself. Feeding the hunger of humanity is why the church exists. Presbyterian churches around the country are working to creatively nourish and sustain those who struggle with food insecurity, malnourishment and poverty.
Asheville, Durham, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and Raleigh – the five stops on the Fair Food Nation tour in North Carolina the past week and a half. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) from Florida took part in what has been called the Publix Truth Tour, raising awareness about the poverty and exploitation faced by farmworkers.
As more than 100 guests danced and sang their way into Evergreen Dining Hall to the hymn tune Siyahamba from Stony Point Center’s campus fair—featuring displays on the center’s projects and partners as well as a generous array of appetizers—for the center’s Farm-to-Table Gala, they were greeted by the glorious color palette and abundant foods of the fall harvest.
Paula Sandusky spent some of the best years of her life crawling under desks and climbing into the phone closets of Wall Street traders. Until Stony Point Center—one of three national conference centers of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)—took her away from all that.
Pastor Ben Johnston-Krase wonders where the church he has been called to is going to be, where his 6-, 8-, and 11-year-old daughters will go to school.
Stony Point Center, a national conference center for the Presbyterian Church in Rockland County, New York, put food justice and sustainable farming front and center at their first “Farm to Table Gala” fundraiser last week.