Tag: Giving

Please break bread with us on Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2020, as we have our annual letter writing campaign for the charity Bread for the World, which works to end global hunger, and is currently working to address hunger issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Bonita Bock will be leading by Zoom.

 

 

Join us at 4pm, on Thursday by Zoom at the following link:

 

 

If you can help me know what glitches you experience, or hopefully how smoothly it goes(!!), that will better prepare me for my work coming up a couple weeks from now. 

 

 

For those who are unfamiliar with this practice, BFW makes an annual request to congregations to write congress to lift up either specific legislation or an issue in relationship to hunger issues, either domestic or international. OSL has participated in this practice for many years. Kristi Olson started the practice in honor of her Mom who was a charter member of BFW. Now is a good time for us to join together and participate in this request again this year and we can thank Kristi as we do so. One pastor friend of mine said, “you don’t get the physical nourishment you need from virtual soup”. So we are asking congress on behalf of hungry people that they get what they need. We at OSL have long seen God calling us to lift up concern for those who hunger as part of mission. This letter writing is another way of responding to that holy call. Thank you again.

 

 

There will be a powerpoint with instructions we will walk through together during the zoom session. Thank you to Mary Fulton for helping me with the powerpoint.  We will still be able to see each other too. 

Please prepare ahead of our zoom time by getting yourself paper and envelopes, depending on how many letters you want to write. You will be given a sample ‘ask’ and addresses for our two federal senators. We have different representatives depending on where we live, but you will be given the mailing address for them too, so please know who your representative is in the federal House of Representatives if you would like to write to them too. 

 

You all are helping me too as I need practice doing this before I get before a large group of people in one of the many Denver retirement communities to present a lecture. So thank you for that too. 

I appreciate our faith community so much, and it is so helpful to do this together during these times.

 

With love in Christ,

Stay safe, stay well,

Bonita Bock

 

Emerita, Director of Urban Studies 
Wartburg College West 
Denver, Co.
wartburg.edu/west
cell: 303-887-9147