Supporting our community members in need Hosting a donation drive? Check out this list of useful items from our partners at BeLoved Asheville. For friends who are unhoused: Socks Blankets Sleeping bags Tents Backpacks Flashlights and batteries Wipes (Baby wipes and/or cleaning wipes) Vitamin C and D Over the counter meds or first aid supplies… Read more »
August 19, 2024
Donation Ideas for Congregations
Supporting our community members in need Hosting a donation drive? Check out this list of useful items from our partners at BeLoved Asheville. For friends who are unhoused: Socks Blankets Sleeping bags Tents Backpacks Flashlights and batteries Wipes (Baby wipes and/or cleaning wipes) Vitamin C and D Over the counter meds or first aid supplies… Read more » 
Going beyond direct relief to build relationships and housing solutions By Jennifer Evans | PHP Associate for Communications and National Partnerships On an overcast morning, I met BeLoved Asheville Co-Directors, Ponkho Bermejo and Amy Cantrell, at Warren Wilson College soccer field where community members gathered with blankets. We all worked together to lay each blanket… 
You care about God’s Creation and you’ve heard how much beef production adds to climate change. So you’re looking for alternatives, like chicken. I often make that choice too, but while the climate impact may be less, there is more to know about the environmental affects of slaughtering 9.3 billion chickens annually in the U.S…. 
Finding Hope, Inspiration and Healing By Rebecca Barnes, coordinator for PHP I don’t know about you, but this year so far, I’m having to constantly lean on faith that God is with us and that God’s beloved community is being created even in the midst of horrors. All around, violence, war, infuriating political maneuvering, climate… 
By Jennifer Evans, Associate for Communications and National Partnerships On a sunny day in Louisville, a large crowd of local housing advocates, citizens — both housed and unhoused — and local officials came together to demand Housing Not Handcuffs. At this rally, some of the most vulnerable in our community shared gut-wrenching stories of… 
Consider becoming a congregation-based community organizing group Congregation-based Community Organizing (CBCO) is a grassroots organizing approach for rebuilding communities, revitalizing congregations, and developing individuals into effective leaders and change agents. There are hundreds of CBCOs across the country, and gifts to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering allow PHP to fund these groups during… 
By Rvda. Neddy Astudillo Mazuera, advisory committee member for the Presbyterian Hunger Program Liberation Theology is my foundation by inheritance. My parents, a Colombian mother, and a Venezuelan father in the 70s, eager to study Theology and become pastors, moved our family to Argentina at a time of growing political instability, and repression of those… 
Water for life and death – scarce water for thirsty Palestinians sustains life, while seawater destroys By Andrew Kang Bartlett, associate for national hunger concerns The Bible has a surprisingly large number of references to water. One concordance had 300 water references. From Noah’s Ark and the destructive flood to Isaiah’s well-watered garden and an… 
Starvation used as a weapon of war in Gaza By Andrew Kang Bartlett ‘How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a sibling in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.’ — 1 John 3:17-18 In… 
Jennifer Evans, Associate for Communications and National Partnerships At a recent rally calling for the ceasefire in Israel-Palestine, one of the rallying calls was, “We keep us safe.” This call reminded me of the power of community and how power either comes from a lot of organized money or a lot of organized people. The…