Nebraska Synod ELCA

Format and schedule

• Format: Live Zoom sessions
• Dates: Sunday evenings, April 12, 19, and 26
• Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. CDT
• Length: Three weeks, 90 minutes per session
• Continuing education: 4.5 contact hours

Responding to Food Scarcity is a three week online course for congregational leaders and lay people who want to think more deeply and act more faithfully in the face of hunger in their communities.

This course offers both theological reflection and practical tools for creating, improving, or refining your current responses to food scarcity. Together we will:

• Read and discuss key writings on the causes of food insecurity
• Reflect on what it means to live out our call to serve our neighbor through food ministries
• Explore best practices for starting, sustaining, and strengthening food response efforts in congregations and communities

Participants will have access to assigned readings and additional resources on the Canvas learning platform.

Cost

• $80 per person

Facilitator

Dr. Courtney Wilder is Professor of Religion at Midland University, an ELCA college in Fremont, Nebraska. Her teaching and research focus on theology of disability and Christianity and popular culture. She has been writing and teaching about the ethics of food for several years, and she brings hands on experience as a regular volunteer at two donation gardens and as a Master Gardener with Douglas County. Dr. Wilder lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her partner and is the mother of two young adult children.

Who should attend

This course is well suited for rostered ministers, congregation council members, lay leaders involved in food ministries, and anyone who wants to respond more thoughtfully and effectively to food scarcity in their local context.