Bread for the World - 2009 Offering of Letters workshop

Hunger at Home: Food for our Neighbors

Saturday, March 21, 2009


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Bread for the World

Lehigh County Conference of Churches

Justice & Advocacy

Workshop Leaders

    Rev. Dr. Christine L. Nelson is executive director of Lehigh County Conference of Churches and an ordained pastor of the United Church of Christ. She has contributed to a number of community initiatives, including the Allentown 10-year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, ACHIEVE (Action Communities for Health, Innovation and Environmental Change), the Mayor's faith-based initiative, Women's Leadership Initiative of the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, and the Lehigh Valley Children's Coalition Policy Summit. Dr. Nelson has served on the Muhlenberg College Board of Associates, President of Alliance Hall, and the Allentown Rotary; and she is a frequent contributor to the Morning Call religious and editorial pages.

    Ann McManus is Director of the Second Harvest of the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania. Second Harvest provides food to 180 food pantries in the region for a small fee.

    Steven Hoog is a member of the steering committee of The Alliance for Sustainable Communities-Lehigh Valley, is on the board of directors of The School of Living (a community land trust organization), and is on the board of the Lehigh Valley Food Coop. He has written a 13-page proposal for relocalization of food production and is planning, in coordination with the Alliance, several permaculture projects in his area. Since 1980, Steve has been a Macrobiotic Dietary Counselor and Shiatsu Practitioner. He presently does four different types of bodywork and is a teacher of Shiatsu.

    Larry Hollar is Senior Regional Organizer with Bread for the World. He is also an ordained Presbyterian elder, a professional Biblical storyteller, church musician and liturgist.
    From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Hollar was a policy analyst and later Director of Issues for Bread for the World, heading the organization's policy and Washington-based advocacy staff. He has traveled to countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, meeting with grassroots organizations engaged in sustainable development, cultural preservation, and justice advocacy. He is the author/coauthor of Bread background papers on topics that include micro-enterprise credit programs, democracy in Haiti, and the U.S. legislative process. He is editor of the three-volume "Hunger for the Word: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice."
    Before coming to Bread for the World's staff in 1985, Mr. Hollar spent a dozen years in government legal positions in Washington, serving as staff counsel to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, and as special assistant to the General Counsel and staff attorney with the U.S. Department of Transportation.

    Greg Bowman was raised in eastern Ohio. Working and eating at his grandparents homestead he unwittingly experienced life on one of the region's last fully integrated crop-livestock-dairy-fruit-vegetable family farms that thrived through relationship marketing in a dynamic, unplanned community. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and communications from Goshen College, Indiana. As editor of Rodale's New Farm on-line journal and a co-organizer of "Farming with Values that Last" conferences at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, he combines stories of entrepreneurial hope with system tools that allow farmers, eaters and believers to create the New Agriculture. He and Ellen, his wife and best friend, attend Bally Mennonite Church.

    Chip Paillex is founder and president of America's Grow-A-Row.


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Last Updated: 3/20/09
Created: February 19, 2009