New: ELCA World Hunger “Health And Hunger” Toolkit

ELCA World Hunger has released a new toolkit for churches, ministries, and small groups, exploring the relationship between hunger and health.

Hunger is shown to have negative affects on both short and long term health, and understanding these complex outcomes is an important part of understanding food insecurity. This tool kit includes information about how poverty, unexpected health problems, and inaccessible communities can worsen and are worsened by hunger and lack of access to nutritious foods. The kit includes three modules of study and activity, including prayers, liturgy, and Bible readings. In addition to statistics and contemporary hunger information, this kit also includes interactive activities! Groups can learn together through building maps, playing the “Healthy Life Board Game,” using prompt cards to share their own health stories, and more. Each module ends with discussion questions, and the kit finishes with service opportunities your congregation can implement.

This toolkit is meant to be explored and learned together! We encourage you to use this tool kit with your social justice ministries, civic engagement groups, human care committees, or adult forums!

Click the button below to read and download the Health and Hunger Toolkit.