Bread for the World Birmingham Workshop

An Offering of Letters

Saturday, May 1st, 9 am – 12 pm
Registration & light breakfast, 8:45 am

Southside Baptist Church
1016 19th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35205

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Dear friend,

These are hard times. In Alabama, one in seven households struggles to put food on the table, and over one in seven kids is at risk of hunger. More and more families face impossible decisions about whether to pay for food, rent, utilities, or other basic necessities.

What can we do?

Year after year, Bread for the World members win far-reaching changes that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. This year will be no exception. Bread for the World’s 2010 Offering of Letters urges our nation’s decision makers to protect and strengthen our nation’s most effective anti-poverty program: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Combined with the Child Tax Credit, the EITC lifts 9.6 million people out of poverty every year, including 5 million children. In Alabama alone, the EITC helps more than 437,000 working families make ends meet.

But important improvements made to these programs under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are due to expire this year.  If these improvements are not extended or made permanent, more than 136,000 families in Alabama will see reductions in their EITC refunds alone.

Our task is simple: this year, we must raise our voices to ensure that working families have enough resources to eat and provide for their basic needs. And you’re invited to join us.

Register now for the 2010 Offering of Letters workshop in Birmingham on Saturday, May 1st.

At the workshop, you will:

  • Participate in an interactive training and get ideas about how to conduct an Offering of Letters in your church, campus, or community group.
  • Learn about how the EITC and Child Tax Credit lift working families out of hunger and poverty in Alabama and beyond.
  • Connect with other people of faith who are answering God’s call to advocate for solutions to hunger.

Please visit www.bread.org/OL2010 to learn more about this year’s campaign. I hope to see you on May 1st!

Grace and peace,

Greg Sims
Southeast Field Organizer

Bread for the World
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