If you’ve been to MPC recently, you’d have seen the table in the Family Room, covered with slowly-disappearing jars labelled with country names.  What did it mean?  We had a food drive to capitalize on the excitement generated by the FIFA World Cup soccer games, and it has finally come to an end.  Let’s review what we accomplished. The food barrel was filled…

“In the late 1960s in Phoenix, John van Hengel heard a woman say that she relied on grocery store dumpsters to find food for her children. She gave him an idea: create a place where food could be deposited and withdrawn, as at a bank. ‘It upset him to see usable food go to waste,’ says Ross Fraser of Feeding America, the…

  One might ask, what has one to do with the other? At MPC, the Hunger Action Working Group is using the upcoming World Cup Soccer playoffs to raise food donations, some of which go to our partner, the food pantry at the former Fruitvale Presbyterian Church. This program was started years ago, and while the church no longer functions at the…

Welcome to the Hunger Action Blog of Montclair Presbyterian Church.  We hope this space will provide you with interesting information about the activities of MPC friends and family as we try to help food-insecure people in different areas of Oakland.  The Hunger Action Working Group (HAWG) was recognized as a new Social Justice Group at the MPC Session meeting on May 13,…