Webinar: Cultivating Food Justice in Our Churches: Building Power and Sustaining Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TViyA8psKBo
Description: Feeding the hungry is at the heart of the call for those who follow Jesus Christ. Virtually every church engages in some kind of feeding ministry. While many of these hunger programs were set up to help people in crisis, it does not take long to realize that hunger is not an exceptional space in our food systems. It is baked into our current structures. The approach of food justice seeks to understand issues related to food in systemic terms, and to respond by cultivating collective power and nurturing alternatives.
In this webinar we will explore the ways that various ministries related to food can be transformed. We will begin by learning from the systemic approach of food justice, which helps us work for wider-scale change, while finding ways to sustain our work and root it in joy. We will, then, explore how this approach parallels the practices of Christ that sought to feed people by organizing farmers and fishers and cultivating life-giving communities. Finally, we will explore three mapping exercises that look for connections between food ministries, examine power dynamics, and name the assets and gifts that are hiding in plain sight in our communities.
In our brief time together, we will seek to discern where the rich soil of community is in your context so that you can start sowing seeds of justice that can be nurtured over the long-term for larger change.