Response to Hunger Appeal Overwhelming
Diocesan Press Service. January 20, 1975 [75023]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The initial report on the response to Presiding Bishop John M. Allin's appeal to members of the Episcopal Church for a special Epiphanytide offering for relieving world hunger indicates that more than $250,000 has been received.
Bishop Allin called for the special offering, to be channeled through the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, at the December meeting of the Executive Council. He said that he sees such an offering as "a special demonstration of the tremendous potential for sharing life " which the Episcopal Church has to offer.
Among the contributors to the hunger appeal was President Gerald R. Ford, an Episcopalian, to whom Bishop Allin wrote informing him of the special Christmas offering and urging his "participation in the fight against world hunger. "