Join us on Friday October 16 at 7:00pm Eastern, on World Food Day, for an ecumenical worship service. You can join the service on your own, or invite your community or church to livestream. Register below and we will send you the link close to the date.
The worship service will be hosted at St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Kitchener at 7:00pm Eastern Time. All are welcome!
Please consider bringing a non-perishable food item to donate to 519 Community Collective, that supports people dealing with food insecurity in the Waterloo region.
Address:
54 Benton St
Kitchener, ON
N2G 3H2
Our theme for World Food Day this year, Setting the Table for Peace, highlights how conflict drives hunger–and how peace can help build food security. Peace is also more than just the absence of conflict. It is where people have everything they need, including a full table of nutritious food.
Setting the Table for Peace comes down to empowering families and communities to gain the resources they need to set their own tables full of nutritious food. This includes empowering women and girls, people who have been displaced from their homes, and other vulnerable populations.
Peace can come through support and assistance, through training and through connecting people with their neighbours. It can come through long-term projects and short-term assistance. Foodgrains Bank members and partners are supporting such efforts – and you can too!
connect@foodgrainsbank.ca
204-944-1993 or
1-800-665-0377
PO Box 767
Winnipeg MB
R3C 2L4
Guest Speaker | Polisi Kivava
Polisi is from Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he currently works for the Canadian Baptist Ministries leading their African Relief and Development work. He accompanies their African partner organizations in developing and implementing relief and food security projects.
Previously, Polisi has held positions with the United Evangelical Mission as a program officer in Tanazina and as the Head of the department of Diakonia and Development for the Baptist Church in Central Africa.
He has seen firsthand how food producers are negatively impacted by violence and armed conflict. And also how these impacts increase as the violence is prolonged – sometimes by decades – in countries such as the DRC and South Sudan. His role’s have included walking with people living with disabilities and trauma because of natural and man-made calamities. And yet, Polisi continues to hold onto hope and faith because of what he reads in the gospels and how he has seen God at work.
