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Minnesota Churches Scramble Amid Government Shutdown

“You can cut the anxiety in the air with a knife,” said Anne Carlson, director of the Dignity Center, a ministry at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church that helps people in poverty obtain a level of self-sufficiency.

The Rev. Kevin Schill, who is watching more people visit the food shelf at the Simpson Center for Servant Ministries, said, “People might be responding out of fear” and stocking up on food.
A Chance to Do Good

How many Christians will get the chance to travel 3,600 miles this summer to a town bearing their name and do good at the same time?

At least one will. He's the Rev. Phil Campbell, who serves the Northern Light United Church, a 200-member United Methodist and Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregation in Juneau, Alaska.

His destination is Phil Campbell, Ala., slammed by the April 27 tornadoes that ripped through much of the South and destroyed half of the town, including the United Methodist church. In Phil Campbell alone, 26 people died.
Ten Real-World Commandments for Americans

1) Thou shalt not separate social from personal responsibility: thou art thine own keeper, and the keeper of thy brothers and sisters, too.

2) Thou shalt provide all children with basic survival needs for health, food, shelter, and safety even if it means bending the rules.

3) Thou shalt honor thy aged fathers and mothers by guaranteeing them comprehensive health care and a livable minimum pension and by paying their caretakers a living wage.
Proposed Cutbacks in Federal Discretionary Spending

This grid prepared by Bread for the World shows where Republicans would cut federal disretionary spending to balance the U.S. budget. Christian groups are opposing these cutbacks as harmful to the nation's most vulnerable citizens, especially children.
'Change the Politics of Hunger'

The head of one of America's most influential hunger ministries has urged Christians to become advocates for the nation's poor and hungry against a backdrop of proposed cuts in federal and state programs that would harm disadvantaged people, especially children.
World Day of Prayer
Positive Efforts to End World Hunger
Fair Trade Futures Conference, Boston, MA.