Day 20: Seize the Opportunity

Bread for the World, Heifer International

Leaders Share World Food Prize
(excerpts from press release below)

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Leaders of two organizations focused on ending hunger and poverty worldwide -- Bread for the World and Heifer International -- are co-recipients of the 2010 World Food Prize, the foremost international award for food and agriculture, often compared to the Nobel Prize. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a denominational partner with Bread for the World, and it is a covenant agency with Heifer International.
The Rev. David H. Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, Washington, D.C., and an ELCA pastor, and Jo Luck, president and chief executive officer of Heifer International, Little Rock, Ark., are the 2010 World Food Prize laureates, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in Washington this past week.
Child nutrition programs are another initiative that people can urge their members of Congress to support. Because of the recession, 1 in 4 children in the U.S. do not have enough food to eat, Beckmann said.

"We need thousands of people to be moved by the Holy Spirit to be active in making these changes," he said.

Beckmann added that he is "proud and grateful" that Lutherans in the United States have been working actively for a long time to overcome hunger. He said he hopes the World Food Prize provides encouragement to Christians "to seize the opportunity to change the world now."

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Day 20. Dollar 20. We pray that the Holy Spirit is actively moving in your life as we mark the 20th day of our journey. We are blessed that you have indeed seized an opportunity to change the world by participating in Hunger Relief Day 10.10.10!