GFCF E-news January/February 2012 - (322 KB)
BVSers team up with GFCF partner agencies in Japan and El Salvador; Ventures work for mediation, food security in Congo and Rwanda; Horn of Africa refugees forgotten? Not by Church of the Brethren donors; GFCF team members complete tasks; Join Peace Witness Ministries and Bread for the World in hunger action; In the midst of a modern breadbasket, saving India's small farms.
GFCF E-news November/December 2011 - (268 KB)
Renew our compassion: A Brethren song and prayer for a hungry world; Harvest and hunger: Each congregation urged to take one new action; Across the Horn of Africa, border camps are becoming border cities; Super-flour porridge nourishes infants and mothers in Nepal; Comings and goings: Haitian church leader to attend ECHO conference; Recognizing God as the First Gardener, the First Farmer, The First Forester; Resources document growing and healing, repairing and rebuilding.
GFCF E-News September/October 2011 - (255 KB)
Brethren urged to participate in food stamp challenge during Week of Action; From gardens to goats: Haitian pastors, GFCF team up for school children; ‘Goodness’ brings ‘Water for Life’ to villages across eastern Niger; Horn of Africa: ‘The cattle are dying. We’ll be next’; Cultivating hunger awareness in the congregation—and in Washington; Backyard harvests offer fresh approach to diminishing hunger; ‘Your kingdom come, your will be done—on earth‘
GFCF E-News July/August 2011 - (191 KB)
How donations to the Global Food Crisis Fund are at work: Here in capsule form are ways your contributions to the Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) reduce malnutrition and infant mortality, partner with smallholder farmers to develop sustainable food production, and make known to hungry neighbors the fullness of Christ’s love.
GFCF E-News May/June 2011 - (161 KB)
Brethren pitch in with earnest in search for lasting solutions to hunger; Lenca Indian families in Honduras discover, ‘We can do it!’; Consultant honored as one of ‘150 women who shake the world’; A learning exercise with children. And maybe adults as well?; In remembrance: A man of the soil, a man of peace; Brethren and the arts: Advocates for hunger action; A lament from Japan: “Oh, what have we done to this earth?”
GFCF E-News March/April 2011 - (183 KB)
‘Rivers of Life' venture in Nicaragua is extended a fourth year In remote rural areas of northeast Nicaragua where poverty and malnutrition are rampant, the "Rivers of Life" program of Church World Service and Foods Resource Bank is being extended to a fourth year. Each of the program's three demonstration centers mentors 60 satellite families in short-term crop production and long-term soil and water management. The trainees in turn teach their neighbors across 16 communities how to respond more adequately to the floods, hurricanes, pests, and diseases that recur in the region. The Church of the Brethren member account in FRB is contributing $11,000 toward the 2011 budget of $70,000.
GFCF E-News January/February 2011 - (176 KB)
Assignment North Korea: Healing, tilling, beautifying the land While tensions in the two Koreas escalated in recent months over artillery fire, war games, nuclear expansion, and WikiLeaks cables, Church of the Brethren workers Robert and Linda Shank began teaching at Pyongyang's new University of Science and Technology. Robert stepped off plots where grain and vegetables, fruit trees and berry plants could provide students practical lab experience and transform the barren landscape of the 240-acre campus. Linda taught and tested graduate classes in reading and writing English. The Shanks will resume teaching the spring term in late February.
GFCF E-News November/December 2010 - (130 KB)
Water everywhere, but in the dry season, how about a drop to drink? Though surrounded by water, residents of La Tortue island off Haiti’s northern coast lack access to potable water during the dry months of the year. To help ease the situation, the Global Food Crisis Fund has granted the Church of the Brethren in Haiti, L’Eglise des Freres, $4,000 to construct a 5,000-gallon cistern and to cement an existing retention pond in a community where the church has launched a school and a preaching point. Coordinating the water harvesting projects is Neslin Augustin, a nurse at the University of Miami Hospital and leader in the Miami Haitian church. He with his fishing boat makes frequent trips to La Tortue, his home community.
GFCF E-News September/October 2010 - (557 KB)

GFCF E-News July/August 2010 - (101 KB)
Microloans help Lenca Indians in Honduras shift out of poverty To improve food security and economic opportunity among Lenca Indian families in Honduras, the Global Food Crisis Fund has awarded an initial $25,000 grant to Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG, Project Global Village). The grant enables families living in poverty to take out loans for the purchase of small livestock. The recipients reside in the buffer zone of Cerro Azul Meambar National Park, a critical watershed area of Honduras where PAG has developed holistic agriculture over the past 17 years. PAG was founded and is directed by Chet Thomas, a Church of the Brethren member whose work in Honduras began with Brethren Volunteer Service and Church World Service in 1974.