Oregon Hunger Awareness Journey July 2009

July 10

  • Portland First to have dinner and make sandwiches for feeding program
  • Murray Hills for Harp Concert to raise funds for Food Pantry on site
  • Retreat Center for worship and sleeping

July 11

  • Corvallis First Christian Stone Soup to help serve and learn about the ministries with the houseless in Corvallis
  • Murray Hills to learn about the Food Pantry and take a tour
  • Food, Inc. movie to learn about the North American food supply
  • Dinner at Cafe Yumm to experience a business begun in a Farmer's Market
  • Back to Retreat Center to make plans for next day's menu, worship and sleeping

July 12

  • Worship at Calvary Christian in Portland and tour of facility and summary of on site ministries
  • Some went to deliver sandwiches to the in the park feeding program
    and others went to grocery shop for evening meal using the principles learned in the movie, Food, Inc.
  • Drove to Salem First where we fixed an evening meal with local foods for the Interfaith Hospitality Network at the local Presbyterian Church
  • Back to retreat center for the night for worship and sleeping

July 13

  • Silverton First to learn about their Wednesday night community dinners
  • Salem First to visit Meals on Wheels site and to eat lunch with the Director of the program. Learned about hunger and seniors in Oregon
  • To Community Garden site run by local church to hear about this ministry, gleaning and farmer's boxes
  • Albany First to learn about the fundraiser, Harvest of Hope for local ministries
  • Lebanon First Soup Kitchen to tour and learn about the history of the kitchen.
  • Met with local author and church member, Nancey West, who signed copies of her book, Miracles Among Us about the soup kitchen.

July 14

  • Packed up and talked about next steps for each of us in sharing what we have learned and using $50 each in seed money for a project locally.

Sandwich making at Portland First Christian

Corvallis Stone Soup
Saturday feeding program
Corvallis Stone Soup
Saturday feeding program

Corvallis Stone Soup
Saturday feeding program
On the van between stops

Interfaith Hospitality network cooking at Salem FCC
Interfaith Hospitality network cooking at Salem FCC

Interfaith Hospitality network cooking at Salem FCC
Interfaith Hospitality network cooking at Salem FCC

Interfaith Hospitality network cooking at Salem FCC
Interfaith Hospitality network cooking at Salem FCC

Enjoying traveling together
Dave, our driver and fellow traveler

Visit to Silverton FCC
to learn about Wednesday Night community dinners

Community Garden at a local Salem church
to learn of community gardening, gleaning, and farmers
Community Garden at a local Salem church
to learn of community gardening, gleaning, and farmers

Bulletin Board Salem First

Albany First Christian
where we learned about doing large fundraising events
for mission

To Lebanon First Soup Kitchen
20 years and going strong
To Lebanon First Soup Kitchen
20 years and going strong

Met with Nancey West (local author & church member)
who wrote the book Miracles Among Us
about the 20 years of the soup kitchen.
(contact the church for copies!)
She autographed our books.

Back row, left to right:
April Burris (Portland FCC), Mae Jean Yue (Portland FCC), Evelyn Harry (The View), Cathy Myers Wirt (Regional Staff), Deanna Costello (Salem FCC), Billie Watkins (Portland FCC), Susan Latham (Salem FCC), Dave Perry (Portland FCC), Abby Perry (Portland FCC)

Front Row, left to right:
Susan Leip (Murray Hills), Rebecca Smith (Medford FCC),
Vanessa Gorski (Medford FCC), Menolly Walter (Portland FCC)