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1 f or HUNGER 500 Years on the MOVE Activity Log Name 150 Days Pentecost Sunday, June 4 to Reformation Day, October Augustana Lutheran Church An ELCA World Hunger, Rocky Mountain Synod, and Augustana Lutheran Church activity to raise awareness and contributions to support the work of ELCA World Hunger during this 500th anniversary of the Reformation E. Alameda Ave. Denver, CO
2 How to use this log book Use it for personal incentive! For each date you are active, write in your activity, the number of miles moved and the amount of money pledged. If you walk, bike or run, count your miles; if you swim, exercise, pray for others, meditate, or volunteer, convert your time to miles (1 mile for every 15 minutes). You may record more than just one type of activity be both a physical and spiritual mover! You may solicit monies to support your efforts or you may donate personally. Keep track of pledges from family and friends on the last page of this log. Contribution Estimates If you are active over the full 150 days and average 1 mile/day, here is the total at different levels of giving. $0.10/mile = $15 $0.25/mile = $37.50 $0.50/mile = $75 $1.00/mile = $150 How to become a Reformation Hunger Opponent The Augustana Foundation has agreed to recognize the top two individuals or teams completing the most miles during the 150 days by donating $1,517 each ($3,034 total) to ELCA World Hunger. Obviously, the more people on your team, the more total miles and the better chance at this special recognition, so round up your friends and family and encourage them to join you. How to register Though you can participate as an individual, we encourage you to form or join a team for support to reach your movement goals. If you want to be a part of a team and don t know who to ask, call Julie MacDougall in Augustana s office ( ), and we will find a team for you to join. Turn in your weekly miles/hours electronically at Or, on Sundays you may fill out the slip in the bulletin with your name and team name (if in a team) along with your miles and/or hours. Quotes in this log, unless otherwise noted, are found in The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economic Dimension of the Reformation edited by Carter Lindberg and Paul Wee Lutheran University Press, Minneapolis, and are cited FL, page number. Quotes are intended to inform, challenge, and inspire.
3 June 4 Day of Pentecost and Day 1 of 150-day Reformation Celebration Move for Hunger June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1b) June 9 June 10 Jodi s 1 mi or 5K Run/walk at City Park to aid CO Ovarian Cancer Alliance: Poverty, I say, is not to be recommended, chosen, or taught; for there is always enough of that by itself, as He says (John 12:8): The poor you always have with you, just as you will have all other evils. But constant care should be taken that, since these evils are always in evidence, they are always opposed. (Luther, FL) June 11 Have you formed a team yet or set a goal? Turned in your miles/hours? June 12
4 June 13 You are off to a good start. Keep it up! June 14 ELCA World Hunger is effective because it works in partnership with local organizations/churches. June 15 June 16 June 17 Note: You may make your contribution monthly or weekly or wait until you have completed your 150 days of Move for Hunger. Be sure to indicate ELCA World Hunger with your check, envelope, or online gift. June 18 June 19 Your funds help soup kitchens, pay-what-you-can restaurants, food pantries, and meal programs. June 20 June 21 Pray. Fast. Act. in solidarity with hungry people at the invitation of both presiding bishops of the ELCA and Episcopal Church. Why and how to Pray/Fast/Act?
5 June 22 Matthew 6:1 4 is why we only ask you to turn in a record of your miles, not your donation amount. June 23 June 24 ELCA World Hunger funds also support Lutheran Disaster Response and Immigration and Refugee Services. For so to help a man that he does not need to become a beggar is just as much of a good work and a virtue as to give alms to a man who has already become a beggar. (Luther, FL) June 25 June 26 June 27 Augsburg Confession presented in 1530 June 28 June 29 June 30 First month done. Good job!
6 July 1 Your gifts to ELCA World Hunger/Good Gifts not only provide relief, but help lift families out of the poverty cycle by providing the materials necessary to develop self-sufficiency. July 2 July 3 July 4 Independence Day: Pray for those serving our nation as leaders or servants. July 5 July 6 Read Matthew 6: Reflect on the difference between wants and needs. How much is enough? July 7 July 8 From Luther s Small Catechism: Give us this day our daily bread. What does this mean? In fact, God gives daily bread without our prayer, even to all evil people, but we ask this prayer that God causes us to recognize what our daily bread is and to receive it with thanksgiving.
7 July 9 Read Luke 10: When you see someone in need, what makes it hard to stop and help? July 10 July 11 ELCA World Hunger works in nearly 60 countries around the world including the United States. July 12 July 13 July 14 July Domestic Hunger Grants included organizations within the Rocky Mountain Synod in Pueblo, Alamosa, Avondale, Westminster, Loveland, and Albuquerque, NM. July 16 July 17
8 July 18 July 19 ELCA Good Gifts not only provides farm animals, but also education to raise and market surpluses. July 20 July 21 Pray. Fast. Act. in solidarity with hungry people at the invitation of both presiding bishops of the ELCA and Episcopal Church. Why and how to Pray/Fast/Act? July 22 What then does daily bread mean? Everything included in the necessities and nourishment for our bodies, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, farm, fields, livestock, money, property, an upright spouse, upright children, upright members of the household, upright and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, decency, honor, good friends faithful neighbors, and the like. July 23 July 24 ELCA Good Gifts recipients often pay it forward, helping their neighbors to succeed. July 25
9 July 26 When Jordan and UNHCR developed a refugee camp for fleeing Syrians, they chose LWR to operate it. July 27 July 28 July 29 God makes love to our neighbor an obligation equal to love to himself. (Luther, FL) July 30 Visit July 31 Two months down! Keep up the good work! August 1 August 2 Pray for neighbors who are in countries fighting a civil war, such as Sudan and Central African Republic. August 3 August 4
10 August 5 Jesus fed 5000 with five loaves and two fish. What can he do with your donation? From the beginning of the Reformation, untold pastors and preachers labored to instill the elementary mandate to love our neighbor through addressing systemic issues of justice and welfare. (Carter Lindberg, FL, 24) August 6 August 7 August 8 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. (Matthew 5:6) August 9 August 10 August 11 If your miles have been running/biking/walking, today earn miles praying or in meditation. August 12
11 August 13 August 14 August 15 Keep baggies with nutritious snacks in your car to give to those begging on street corners. August 16 August 17 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 21 Pray. Fast. Act. in solidarity with hungry people at the invitation of both presiding bishops of the ELCA and Episcopal Church. Why and how to Pray/Fast/Act? A significant solar eclipse today. Offer a prayer of thanks for God s wonderful creation!
12 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21) August 26 From Luther s Small Catechism: The Fifth Commandment: You shall not murder. What does this mean? We are to fear and love God, so that we neither endanger nor harm the lives of our neighbors, but instead help and support them in all of life s needs (bold added for emphasis). August 27 August 28 August 29 Posada in Pueblo, CO, received $3K to support the needs of families in temporary shelter.
13 August 30 August 31 Three months down. Keep up the good work! September 1 September 2 Take a walk or hike this morning and enjoy a September morning in Colorado. Faith is followed by works as a body is followed by its shadow. (Luther, FL, 45) September 3 September 4 Labor Day: Pray for the unemployed and the underemployed. September 5 September 6 for Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to share their resources with the poor. (Romans 15:26) September 7
14 September 8 September 9 The king will say to those at his right hand, Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food (Matthew 25:34 35a) September 10 God s work. Our hands. Sunday: Rice, beans, and T.P. repackaging for Metro Caring September 11 Say a prayer for peace in the world on this day of remembrance. September 12 September 13 September 14 September 15 September 16 As we enter into this harvest season, pray for good weather and abundant crop yields.
15 September 17 September 18 September 19 The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. (Exodus 23:19) September 20 September 21 Pray. Fast. Act. in solidarity with hungry people at the invitation of both presiding bishops of the ELCA and Episcopal Church. Why and how to Pray/Fast/Act? September 22 September 23 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the alien: I am the Lord your GOD. (Leviticus 23:22) There will be no poor among you. (Deuteronomy 15:4) September 24
16 September 25 ELCA World Hunger: Tribal farmers in West Bengal India supplement their income by beekeeping. September 26 September 27 September 28 ELCA World Hunger helped the homeless Incan children of Peru attend a primary school and learn a trade. September 29 September 30 Four months down! Keep up the good work toward easing hunger in the world. God said [to the humans he had created], See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. (Genesis 1:29) October 1 Commit to the Lord your estimate of giving not only for the congregation, but also for the world in need. October 2 October 3
17 October 4 Growing Home, Inc. in Westminster received a grant to support homeless families in Adams County. October 5 October 6 October 7 10th Annual Grace Race to support ELCA World Hunger October 8 October 9 October 10 Indigenous People Day: Pray for the poor on our nation s reservations. October 11 October 12 The ELCA World Hunger Malaria Campaign reached its $15M goal in 2015, but the work continues.
18 October 13 October 14 [Christ gave himself that we may be saved; we are called to] love as he gives himself for us so we too are to give ourselves with might and main for our neighbor. (Luther, with bracketed text paraphrased, FL, 45) He who has nothing to live should be aided. If he deceived us, what then? He must be aided again. (FL, 20) October 15 October 16 ELCA World Hunger funds provide life skills to Syrian refugees in Jordan s Za atari Camp. October 17 October 18 Kindness provides charity; justice gives all a fair chance in life for its necessities. October 19 October 20 You are almost there; the finish line is in sight!
19 October 21 Pray. Fast. Act. in solidarity with hungry people at the invitation of both presiding bishops of the ELCA and Episcopal Church. Why and how to Pray/Fast/Act? He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8) October 22 October 23 October 24 Our congregational goal was $15,170. Can you guess why? October 25 October 26 October 27 Saved by grace through faith thus we extend our grace to those in need without judgment. October 28
20 October 29 Reformation Sunday the color is red! October 30 October th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. You made it! Congratulations! Grand How did you do? Did you meet your goal? Have fun?! Remember to turn in your miles (and donation)! Don t stop set a new goal!
21 HUNGER f or 500 Years on the MOVE Thank you for supporting Augustana Lutheran Church Name of Pledger Amount/mile Phone
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