For their 2011 Mission Trip, members of our High School Youth Group will spend next week (July 25-Aug. 3) in Portland, Oregon. They will be volunteering in and learning about a variety of hunger justice programs, coordinated by the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. This is an interfaith food and farm partnership, which has recently received a grant from the Presbyterian Hunger Program. Volunteer opportunities include (1) Zenger Farms, an Urban Agriculture Center in a low-income area; (2) Portland Fruit Tree Project, which gleans urban fruit trees; (3) N.E. Emergency Food Program; (4) New Seasons Market, a local chain which hires from the neighborhoods they locate in and sources food as locally as possible. While on the trip they will also be taking photos for the Joining Hands with Bolivia Poverty, Pollution and Solutions photo contest.
