Reducing Hunger and Poverty

ELCA WORLD HUNGER and the LUTHERAN PUBLIC POLICY OFFICE of WASHINGTON STATE

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ELCA World Hunger and the Lutheran Public Policy Office are partners working to promote justice and seeking to end hunger and poverty in Washington State.  The hunger-related advocacy work of this office is supported by your gifts to ELCA World Hunger.

Visit the ELCA World Hunger website to learn more.

ELCA SOCIAL POLICY

Economic Life: Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All (pdf)

A Social Statement adopted by a more than two-thirds majority vote (872-124) by the ELCA’s sixth Churchwide Assembly on August 20, 1999 in Denver Colorado.

Read the Social Statement on Economic Life.

Homelessness (pdf)

A message approved by the board of the Commission for Church in Society and adopted by the ELCA Church Council on October 22, 1990.

Read the Message on Homelessness.