food Archives

COVID-19 continues to rise in Indonesia

Posted December 2nd, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is growing rapidly in Indonesia, which has one of the highest number of coronavirus cases in Asia. But with fewer than 100,000, the total number of confirmed cases is still relatively small compared to those in the United States.

Hive of hardworking honeybees poisoned in Florida church’s mission garden

Posted October 1st, 2020

It’s been only a few months since Covenant Presbyterian Church in Fort Myers, Florida, worked with a professional beekeeper to relocate a couple of well-established bee colonies from an old rotten tree on the property. The bees were successfully moved to side-by-side hives in the church’s Together We Grow Mission Garden.

One Great Hour of Sharing gifts save lives and livelihoods in famine-stricken countries

Posted May 27th, 2020

Before a hunger emergency struck Somalia, Hawo Abdi and her husband were successful herders near their country’s border with Kenya. However, two years of intensive drought parched the land to the point that they could no longer raise the camels, cattle, sheep and goats that supported their pastoralist lifestyle. The country’s civil war added further complications to the situation. As her family faced economic ruin, Abdi’s husband died, and at the time of his death, she was two months pregnant with the couple’s fifth child.

Food isn’t the only item on community dinner menus

Posted October 20th, 2019

Seeing people happy around the table makes me think that something good is happening among them. But seeing people laughing, smiling, talking to each other — and even dancing — around food makes me realize how important the time of fellowship is at the church dinners we share.

Gift allows congregations to put ‘Faith in Action’

Posted July 23rd, 2019

According to Karen Linnell, elder of First Presbyterian Church of Farmington in Farmington Hills, Michigan, “It’s not often that you get to see a dream come true, especially when it turns out to be more meaningful than you imagined.” Linnell was referring to a $350,000 gift from an anonymous donor, which is inspiring congregations and community partners to work together to put their faith into action through new and existing mission initiatives in communities across the Presbytery of Detroit.

Atlanta new worshiping community works to ease the suffering in Venezuela

Posted July 23rd, 2019

On The Way Church, a Spanish-speaking multicultural 1001 new worshiping community in Atlanta, held a “Pray for Venezuela” day in June for those impacted by that country’s worsening economic and political crisis.

Faith and your dinner plate

Posted May 16th, 2019

Choosing a protein for a meal is no easy task. Can you afford it? Is it good for you? If you have kids, will they eat it? Then there are the less common and more challenging questions: Was the earth harmed? Were the workers treated well? Did the animal suffer? And how is our protein consumption contributing to carbon emissions and climate change?

Souper Saturday meal, basketball broadcast deliver joy around University of Kentucky campus

Posted April 15th, 2019

The Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team may have lost a recent showdown at the University of Tennessee, but that didn’t dampen the warmth of the spirits of those watching the game on a big projector screen at Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church next to the UK campus.

Making food and farming more accessible to people of color

Posted April 8th, 2019

As a college student, Lytisha Wyatt’s study about health inequalities in the United States caused her great concern.

Gleaning to feed the hungry

Posted March 26th, 2019

Erica, it’s simple. People who grow food have too much, while some people go hungry. There must be a way to get the excess produce from the growers to the hungry. There was a way, and my friend John Walker called it “gleaning”— a biblical practice of leaving some of your crops in the field for the poor.