Save the date for AzAHA’s annual Anti-Hunger Advocacy day!

Vicar Wendi Van Beek of Our Saviour’s Tucson joins the LAMA Policy Council, accepting the call to serve a three-year term on the board.

New for 2024! Lenten Action Guide, Calendar and Study resources for congregational use in planning educational and fundraising events at your congregation. From ELCA World Hunger.

Get an in-depth look at LAMA’s 2024 Policy Priorities and how these issues affect our state.

Take a minute to prepare for the legislative session by double checking your new Legislative District.

From the Arizona Agenda: Here are a few election and Capitol calendar dates you might want to jot down.

Read stories from AzFBN about fighting food insecurity within Arizona’s Indigenous communities.

Do you have an RTS account but don’t know quite how to use it? Need a refresher? This 30-minute training will equip participants to use Arizona’s Request to Speak (RTS) system in preparation for the upcoming legislative session.

Even though the holiday is not for a few more days, this is the last newsletter you will receive before then. Hunger Fellow Autumn Byars shares a Christmas message from LAMA.

Did you know that Arizona Independents are not able to vote in the Presidential Preference Election?

Learn about the Resilient Food System Infrastructure grants now available through the AZDA.

We invite you to review the draft of the new ELCA Social Message on Gun Violence and Trauma, before the comment period closes.

Read about this Sunday’s LAMA Kick Off at St. John’s Lutheran Church.

DATE CHANGE: Join us tonight for the launch of Bread’s newest advocacy campaign!

WATCH: Interview With ELCA Delegate to COP28. Learn more about how they are representing a faith-based perspective on climate care.

Guest blog on Isaiah 43 by Savannah Jorgenson. “Our faith at its core is one that longs for justice, which includes the stewardship of creation and mending of historical environmental injustices done to our neighbors. I think that’s what makes faith-based organizing and advocacy so exciting and so unique.”

Read about the ELCA presence at the UN climate forum, COP28 on the ELCA Advocacy Blog.