New Ideas for Concrete Community Action

(connected to how God speaks to us in the liturgy?)

• New ideas for concrete community actions (connected to how God speaks to us in the liturgy?)
o Learn more in the adult education class about Burma and Liberia and Central America…
o Start a church food co-op as in days of old
• Join Community Supported Agriculture (weekly boxes of seasonal produce)
• Lots of nearby farms are listed at http://www.localharvest.org
• Buy local beef together at Duma’s (Mogadore or Hartville Market)
• Start a weekly grass-fed meat buying club (http://www.eatwild.com/products/ohioresources.htm)
“Paul and Colleen Yoder, Apple Creek, OH, supply products raised on their farm to various small, family-oriented food co-ops who come directly to their farm for weekly pick ups from the Cleveland, Medina and Akron, OH areas. Contact them for more information: (330) 698-0340 or grassfedmeats@earthlink.net.”
o Tend a community garden and do canning together.
o Annual apple-picking/applesauce making (extra applesauce in the Karsten Kitchen?)
o Buy goods for the Karsten Kitchen based on healthy food (not bottom line price alone)
o Hire those in need to help clean the church building and do landscaping for fair wages?
o Other direct, collective political action?

from Scott's handout