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Hand in Hand Global Mission Support Blog Digest

This "blog digest" is brought to you by the ELCA Global Mission Support team. Here you will find posts and re-posts by ELCA missionaries, ELCA Global Mission churchwide staff, and other friends.

Missionary Moment: Nathan and Sharonette Bowman (Japan)
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 5:00am

This is an edited version of a missionary letter sent by the Rev. Nathan and Sharonette Bowman,  ELCA missionaries who have served in Japan for 25 years.
–Sue.

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This "blog digest" is brought to you by the ELCA Global Mission Support team. Here you will find posts and re-posts by ELCA missionaries, ELCA Global Mission churchwide staff, and other friends.

Thanks, First and Roseville Lutheran
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 3:28pm

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Hunger Rumblings

The ELCA World Hunger staff and their associates blog about world hunger, its causes and solutions, and anything else they find relevant.

Food for fuel and comfort
Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 11:40pm

This week’s TueSpot asks our fans to share a recipe from their culture, heritage or location. It stems from our vast amount of fans that come from all over the world and across the USA. So my plan tonight was to also blog about a recipe and how it connects to where I am. I am still going to do that, but I am also going to talk about food as it relates to me in two specific ways: as fuel and as comfort.

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The ELCA World Hunger staff and their associates blog about world hunger, its causes and solutions, and anything else they find relevant.

Time for some honesty, folks.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 2:11pm

Climate change is an issue I have generally shied away from in the past.
Climate change is an issue I’ve been comfortable with not having firm convictions about.
Climate change is something I once thought was untrue. A trustworthy and reputable professor in the biology department at a local community college convinced me of this during a summer class I took.

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