2007 Southeastern Minnesota Synod Assembly
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Resolution 2007-04:

‘A River of Giving’ to the World Hunger Appeal

Passed

1 WHEREAS, the Prophet Isaiah
2 promised that blessing would
3 follow justice and mercy:
4 “Is not this the fast that I
5 choose: to loose the bonds
6 of injustice, to undo the
7 thongs of the yoke, to let
8 the oppressed go free, and
9 to break every yoke? Is it
10 not to share your bread
11 with the hungry, and bring
12 the homeless poor into
13 your house; when you see
14 the naked, to cover them,
15 and not to hide yourself
16 from your own kin? Then
17 your light shall break forth
18 like the dawn, and your
19 healing shall spring up
20 quickly; your vindicator
21 shall go before you, the
22 glory of the LORD shall be
23 your rear guard …” Isaiah
24 58:6-8 NRSV; and

25 WHEREAS, the focus of the 2008
26 Southeastern Minnesota Synod
27 Assembly will be “Ending
28 Hunger”; and

29 WHEREAS, the ELCA World Hunger
30 Appeal is our primary effort for
31 addressing both domestic and
32 global hunger; and

33 WHEREAS, if every baptized ELCA
34 member gave $5 to the ELCA
35 World Hunger Appeal, the church
36 would reach its goal of raising $25
37 million for its efforts to end
38 hunger around the world and close
39 to home; and

40 WHEREAS, the most recent statistics
41 indicate that $19.1 million was
42 given in 2006 by congregations
43 and individuals of the ELCA; and

44 WHEREAS, in 2006 our Southeastern
45 Minnesota Synod contributed
46 $330,222 (includes individuals,
47 congregation and synod) toward
48 the ELCA World Hunger Appeal
49 (including “Stand with Africa”)
50 which averages $2.51 per baptized
51 member;

52 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED,
53 that members of all congregations
54 in the Southeastern Minnesota
55 Synod be challenged to increase
56 their giving to the ELCA World
57 Hunger Appeal by $1.00 per
58 baptized member in 2007 and an
59 additional $1.00 per baptized
60 member in 2008 which would lift
61 this synod’s giving to the Hunger
62 Appeal to over $500,000 by the
63 end of 2008; and

64 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that
65 such generous outpouring of gifts
66 through our synod’s “River of
67 Giving Emphasis” be a means of
68 expressing our gratitude for all the
69 gifts we have received from our
70 Lord and on behalf of the needs of
71 the hungry and impoverished.

Submitted by the Southeastern Minnesota Synod Hunger Task Force, Rev. Clark Cary, Chair

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