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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - Canadian Foodgrains Bank has joined ADRA Canada, World Renew (formerly
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee), the United Church of Canada,
World Vision and 27 other non-profit organizations in a campaign asking
the Canadian government to restore funding to the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA).
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Monday, October 22, 2012 - Development and Peace is recruiting for Deputy Director of the International Programs Department.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - When someone is hungry, that’s a challenge for those whose stomachs are full—a challenge that requires a response.
That was the call issued by Idris Elbakri, past president of the Manitoba Islamic Association, at an Oct. 12 fundraising service for Canadian Foodgrains Bank at Winnipeg’s Central Mosque.
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Monday, October 15, 2012 - Paintings about right to food now available on the Web
In 2010, 18 artists from Canada and around the world were asked to interpret the meaning of the human right to food, especially as it relates to hunger in the world. The result was the Just Food art exhibit, which toured across Canada for two years.
The tour is coming to an end this year, but the exhibit will live on—online.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - October 28 Concert to highlight issue of global hunger, raise funds for Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Over 850 million people in the world don’t have enough to eat—something
that Colin Creighton, Associate Pastor at Zion Church in Didsbury, finds
very disturbing.
“God doesn’t want anyone to be hungry,” he says. “As Christians, we have a responsibility to help.”
Zion Church will be doing its part to help alleviate global hunger
October 28, when it hosts singer-songwriter Steve Bell for a fundraising
concert for Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - A reflection on the 2011 Harvest for Hunger
By Ann Voskamp
On October 5, 2011, Ann Voskamp was one of thousands of people who
gathered to watch 120 combines attempt a world record harvest near
Monkton, ON for Canadian Foodgrains Bank. After the event, she wrote the
following reflection.
My Dad had said we’d never see anything like it again, not in our
lifetimes—120 combines lined up around one field of 160 acres of
soybeans.
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Monday, October 01, 2012 - People can still donate to help people who don’t have enough to eat
A year ago this week, on October 5, 2011, thousands of people flocked to
the Tollenaar farm between Listowel and Monkton, ON to take part in
Harvest for Hunger.
The goal of the day was to harvest 160 acres of soybeans in ten minutes
or less, and to raise $200,000 for Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
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Friday, September 28, 2012 - This weekend on Salt & Light Television's, Perspectives: The Weekly Edition,
leaders from two organizations working to alleviate the crisis in the
Sahel, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Development and Peace, speak
about the food crisis in the Sahel.
Click here to watch the show online.
This new episode airs at 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm PT, repeating Sunday evening at these same times.
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Friday, September 28, 2012 - Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the ways that we have been blessed, and to give thanks for all of God’s good gifts.
The Bible tells us that we are blessed so that we can bless others.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank has put together a Thanksgiving worship
resource package that will call your church into a time of praise and
thanksgiving, and then invite you to respond with thankfulness as we
think about those around the world who don’t have enough to eat.
The resource package, which includes prayers, suggested readings, song
suggestions, contemporary hymns, children’s stories, and opportunities
to respond, is available on the Foodgrains Bank website for download,
free of charge.
Click here to see the Thanksgiving worship resource.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012 - $90,000 from canola harvest donated to Canadian Foodgrains Bank
“It was a great day for God and a great day for the poorest of the poor.”
That’s how Leo Seguin, one of the organizers for the Westlock growing
project, described the September Canola harvest in Westlock, Alberta.
Over a 100 people turned up to celebrate the harvest, taking nine
combines only 2.5 hours to bring in the field of canola. About 37.5
bushels per acre were harvest netting 7871 bushels, and raising over
$90,000 to help people around the world who don’t have enough food to
eat.
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