This annual gathering will include discussion of both local and national food and hunger issues and tools for advocacy with our elected members of Congress.

Plenary Presentation:   "Nourishing Our Future: Policy, Politics, Action" Andrea Faiano, State Organizer for Pennsylvania, Bread for the World.

Nourishing Our Future: Last year, Bread held more that 100 listening sessions, hosted by food pantries, soup kitchens, and other emergency feeding programs to define priorities for legislation focused on child hunger, including WIC (Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program), the Child Tax Credit, increased funding for global child nutrition programs, and reducing food insecurity on college campuses.

Event Topics*

• "Nourish Our Future" legislative priorities
• Allentown Collaborative Ministries/Community Food-Based Ministry
• Modern WIC Act for Women, Infants, and Children
• Feeding Lehigh Valley's Unsheltered Residents

• Sponsored by Bread for the World and the Justice and Advocacy Committee of The Lehigh Conference of Churches.
• Continental breakfast and lunch are included.
  (Registration is free, but donations for Bread for the World are welcome.)
• Please pre-register by February 26: Register on-line here.
  Have questions? Contact us at ja-bfw@ppjr.org.

Hunger and Advocacy Resources

• Offering of Letters Campaign
  "Nourish Our Future".
  
• An overview of the 2025 "Offering of Letters" campaign is posted HERE, and there are many downloadble resources for the Offering of Letters HERE.
• Oxfam International Report 2025
  "Takers not Makers: The Unjust Poverty and Unearned Wealth from Colonialism"

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• Modern WIC Act:
    o Overview
    o Press Release (2023)

Child Tax Credit

"Setting the Table: A Blueprint for Hunger-Free PA" - Pennsylvania's plan for addressing food security in the Commonwealth.

• Improving Child Nutrition At Home and Abroad: WIC, SNAP, Child Tax Credit,
  School and Summer Meals, Global Childhood Food Insecurity

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The Farm Bill: Although Congress simply approved one-year extensions of the 2018 Farm Bill in 2023 and 2024, it is anticipated that Congress will finally negotiate a new Farm Bill in 2025.

2025 Farm Bill overview (NSAC)

2023 Eaters Guide to the Farm Bill (PCUSA)

Farm Bill video and print resources (AFSC)