ABC hunger show features United Methodist involvement
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A UMNS photo courtesy Society of St. Andrew The Society of St. Andrew's potato drop activities are featured in an upcoming documentary about hunger.
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Mennonite
Media produced the one-hour TV documentary �Hunger No More: Faces
Behind the Facts" for the National Council of Churches. The program will
begin airing on ABC stations Oct. 24, 2004. It's meant to highlight
"community economic development; advocacy with state and federal
governments to change systems that allow poor people to escape the cycle
of poverty and hunger; and positive choices individuals have made to
eradicate chronic hunger in our lifetime.� The hunger-relief work of the
Society of St. Andrew will be featured using its Harvest of Hope and
Potato Drop activities. Other sponsoring partners are the World Hunger
Program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Church World
Service, United Methodist Committee on Relief, the Society of St.
Andrew, with cooperation from Bread for the World and United Methodist
Communications. A UMNS photo courtesy Society of St. Andrews. Photo number 04-395. Accompanies UMNS story #410, 9/14/04. |
Sept. 14, 2004 NEW
YORK (UMNS) — United Methodists involved in hunger issues are featured
in a television documentary to air on ABC affiliates in late October. The
National Council of Churches produced the one-hour program, Hunger No
More: Faces Behind the Facts, for the ABC-TV “Vision and Values” series.
Network affiliates will begin airing the program Oct. 24. Viewers
should check local listings for air times. The
documentary approaches hunger as not just a social issue but also a
moral issue “that needs immediate resolution,” according to Burton
Buller, producer and president of Mennonite Media. The
United Methodists interviewed include former presidential candidate
George McGovern; the Rev. John McCullough, executive director, Church
World Service; the Rev. Bob Edgar, chief executive, National Council of
Churches; June Kim, staff executive, United Methodist Committee on
Relief; and the Rev. Ken Horne, chief executive, Society of St. Andrew. Also
featured are U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole; Jeffrey Sachs, an ethicist at
Columbia University; David Beckmann, chief executive, Bread for the
World; Joe Young, director of community development, Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America; and Joan Holmes, United Nations-related
Hunger Project. The
Society of St. Andrew harvests potatoes and salvages other fresh
produce that would otherwise go to waste, re-directing the food to
agencies serving the poor. The documentary for ABC includes footage of
the society’s “potato drop,” held during the United Methodist General
Conference last spring in Pittsburgh, and the gleaning of produce from
previously harvested fields along the eastern shore of Virginia. The
society’s “Harvest of Hope” program offers mission opportunities to
glean food and learn about hunger issues. Through
contributions to Advance #982920, the United Methodist Committee on
Relief supplies food for the hungry and assists with development
programs in poor countries. The agency multiplies the United Methodist
impact on hunger and poverty programs by cooperating with other agencies
and religious bodies, including the National and World Councils of
Churches and Methodist churches around the world.
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A UMNS photo courtesy Society of St. Andrew �Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts" includes the faces of young people involved in gleaning programs to help fight hunger.
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Mennonite
Media produced the one-hour TV documentary �Hunger No More: Faces
Behind the Facts" for the National Council of Churches. The program will
begin airing on ABC stations Oct. 24, 2004. It's meant to highlight
"community economic development; advocacy with state and federal
governments to change systems that allow poor people to escape the cycle
of poverty and hunger; and positive choices individuals have made to
eradicate chronic hunger in our lifetime.� The hunger-relief work of the
Society of St. Andrew will be featured using its Harvest of Hope and
Potato Drop activities. Other sponsoring partners are the World Hunger
Program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Church World
Service, United Methodist Committee on Relief, the Society of St.
Andrew, with cooperation from Bread for the World and United Methodist
Communications. A UMNS photo courtesy Society of St. Andrews. Photo
number 04-396. Accompanies UMNS story #410, 9/14/04. |
Besides Mennonite
Media, the NCC’s sponsoring partners for Hunger No More include the
United Methodist Committee on Relief, Church World Service, the World
Hunger Program, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Society
of St. Andrew, with cooperation from United Methodist Communications and
Bread for the World. UMTV, a part of United Methodist Communications,
contributed footage from Africa. After
airing, the documentary will be available on DVD and VHS video, along
with a study guide. For more information, call toll-free (800) 999-3534. News media contact: Linda Bloom, New York, (646) 369-3759 or newsdesk@umcom.org.
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