Presbyterian Hunger Program

🚨Get in the Food Week of Action spirit by joining in these solidarity actions and events around the U.S., plus one is Sri Lanka!

On October 11–18 we celebrate Food Week of Action, which includes the International Day for Rural Women (Oct. 15), World Food Day (Oct. 16), and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (Oct. 17). Some of the 100+ Food Week co-sponsors have listed events and actions you can choose from. Go to the Actions for the 2026 Food Week (https://bit.ly/foodweek26) listing now.

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Save the date for the APCE Annual Event!

The 2027 APCE Annual Event will be held in Portland, Oregon from January 27-30, either in-person at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront or via Annual Event Online. Each day, we will look at different questions we ask ourselves about how we do the ministry of Christian education, moving through the breath, sinews, flesh, and spirit of this collective ministry in the world we live in.

Join us to explore “Can These Bones Live?: Rediscovering What Matters.”
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Blessed Tomorrow, a coalition of partners including the Presbyterian Hunger Program working to advance climate solutions in faithful service to God, offered an informative three-hour webinar last weekend. Speakers included the Rev. Carol Devine, senior director of Blessed Tomorrow, the faith component of ecoAmerica, and Eric Marquez, ecoAmerica’s program manager. Read more about the webinar here: https://hubs.ly/Q04yPVFy0

Excerpt: At a time when farmland is already threatened by development, and our nation’s topsoil is eroding due to extractive farming practices, this massive conversion accelerates the removal of productive land and soil from the food system. This raises long-term concerns about domestic food sovereignty and our ability to feed a growing population.

Why AI Data Centers are a Hunger Issue: Take Faithful Action Unchecked AI data center expansion is permanently converting prime farmland into industrial infrastructure, threatening food sovereignty and exacerbating hunger by displacing agricultural capacity. We are called to take faithful action and advocate for AI and all technologies to be developed in ways...

Ever think about the Farm Bill being a Health Bill too? PHP is a member of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition and a couple folks in the Legacy Lands working group of the Coalition wrote this great piece articulating the links between farming, health, and the need for better agriculture policy.

The Farm Bill Is a Health Bill | Common Dreams ​It cannot be cut into pieces without harming land and people.

📌Oct. 13th @ 2pm

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As the genocide in Gaza continues, the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel, paid for largely with U.S. tax dollars. It includes 40,000 2,000-pound bombs, the same size Israel has used in Gaza in attacks that have caused mass civilian casualties and widespread destruction. The sale is under congressional review, and Congress can consider a resolution to block it.

Contact your members of congress today and ask them to support accountability and human rights and block the weapons sales to Israel!

https://www.votervoice.net/PCUSA/Campaigns/139920/Respond

📌Part one is “Religious Liberty” (Oct. 2)

📌Part two is “State and Citizen: Their Mutual Responsibility” (Oct. 16)

📌Part three is “The Church’s Role in Civil Society” (Oct. 30)

https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2026/9/28/pcusa-co-moderators-offer-church-wide-online-series-politics-and-public-witness

PC(USA) Co-Moderators offer church-wide online series on politics and public witness A new church-wide series promises to tackle “Why ‘Presbyterian’ will never be a political party.” The free series will be facilitated by the current Co-Moderators of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Marta Pumroy-Cordero and the Rev. Dr. Kris Schondelmeyer, w...

“PHP grants reflect PC(USA)’s continued commitment to relational work in the U.S. and around the world, with both historical and new partners,” said the Rev. Rebecca Barnes, who manages PHP.

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