Voice: (916) 447-6666 
Help and Hope for Haiti through ELCA Disaster Response
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/
ACT-International
With gifts to ELCA Disaster Response, members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have enabled ELCA's community partners to provide two water purification systems to bring clean water to 25,000 people , emergency food and medical supplies to thousands, and blankets and tents to 10,000 who are homeless. Additional aid is going to assist refugees and Haitian Americans entering or returning to the U.S.
Lutherans and Lutheran Volunteer
Corps members at the 2009 Summit.
2010 Working Families Summit
The 2010 California Working Families Policy Summit, Our Common Cause: Confronting Current Crises & Forging a New Vision, will be held on Thursday, February 25, 2010, at the Sacramento Convention Center from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Registration opens at 8:00 am. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis is the luncheon keynote speaker, and there will be a video message from First Lady Michelle Obama. In addition to offering an expert and information-packed morning plenary on the budget crisis, the Summit seeks to “inspire community and rekindle conversations that look to the future. Leading advocates will offer proposals and long-term agendas to preserve the safety net, build family economic security, and promote family-friendly workplaces.” Go to www.ccrwf.org to view the agenda and register online.
Faith Communities Budget
Lobby Day,
June 16, 2009. Sign reads, "All Kids
Deserve Health Care."
Health Care 2010
From the ELCA social statement on Health and Healthcare:"Health is central to our well-being, vital to relationships, and helps us live out our vocations in family, work, and community. Caring for one’s own health is a matter of human necessity and good stewardship. Caring for the health of others expresses both love for our neighbors and responsibility for a just society. As a personal and social responsibility, health care is a shared endeavor."
Current health care action alerts and background information on Health Care Reform.
Pastor Scot Sorensen of St. John’s
Lutheran Church welcomes people
to a Jan. 7, 2010 Health and Human
Services Network of California press
conference in St. John’s Hall, during
food distribution by Central
Downtown Food Basket.
Foodlink truck departs St. John’s on
day of press conference lamenting
cuts in public safety net programs.
Photos: Mark Carlson
Helpful State Budget Education and Advocacy Information
Health and Human Services Network
California Budget Project
Health Access
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Legislative Analyst Office
CA Dept of Finance
Budget/Governance Reform Efforts
California Forward
Repair California—The Constitutional Convention Campaign
Election 2010 Watch: The Year of Budget/Governance Reform?
Secretary of State ballot measure updates
The Governor’s invitation to offer ideas for reduction of waste and improved efficiency in government:
Help our California neighbors in need! Join California First Lady Maria Shriver as We Connect to access state and federal programs and services for financial, nutrition, and employment aid, support for education, and other resources.
ELCA World Hunger
Responding to Christ's call to "Go and do likewise"
You can make a life-saving difference! Give to ELCA World Hunger.
ELCA World Hunger is a comprehensive and sustainable program that uses multiple strategies—relief and development, education, and advocacy—to address the root causes of hunger and poverty. ELCA World Hunger responds to neighbors around the corner and around the world.