Presiding Bishop Calls for Christmas-Epiphany Hunger Offering
Diocesan Press Service. November 7, 1975 [75391]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has called on the clergy of the Church "to mobilize your congregations this holiday season " for a special hunger offering during Christmas - Epiphany, through the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.
Bishop Allin expressed his "profound thanks" to the clergy of the church for their past support of the Fund and especially for last year's appeal which realized record-breaking contributions for hunger and other relief and development programs. As of November 1, contributions of more than $2.5 million have been received in 1975 by the Fund, "a figure well over twice that for all of 1974, " he said.
Bishop Allin said in a letter to the clergy of the Church that gifts to the Presiding Bishop's Fund had helped the Church "feed the hungry in many parts of the world (including our own country) through direct shipments of food and through the equally important funding of agricultural and educational development projects. "
Bishop Allin also commended to the Church the "Offering of Letters " project of "Bread for the World," a Christian citizens' organization concerned about global hunger. "Bread for the World," which receives funding support from the Presiding Bishop's Fund, has called for an "outpouring of letters " during the Thanksgiving season addressed to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the U.S. in support of a " sense of Congress " resolution affirming the "right to food " for all human beings.
The Presiding Bishop urged Episcopalians to write to their member of Congress (U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515) in support of the right-to-food resolution, H. Con. Res. 393, and to their U.S. Senators (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510) in support of the resolution, S. Con. Res. 66.