Come To the Table

You're invited to "Come to the Table: A Conference on Food, Faith, and Farms."

Each one-day session will gather faith leaders, hunger advocates, farmers, and others for a conversation on how North Carolinians of faith can honor the land, feed the hungry, and seek justice together.

Regional sessions will allow participants to find partners and projects in their area.

• Eastern session at St. Luke's United Methodist Church , Goldsboro, April 10.
• Central session at Cedar Grove United Methodist Church , Cedar Grove, April 11.
• Western session will be at Biltmore United Methodist Church , Asheville, April 13.

At each regional session, you will hear speakers on Christian faith and land stewardship, the state of hunger in your area, and the situation of local farms. Local groups who successfully partner churches, farmers, and they hungry will share their stories. Local organizations addressing these issues will host booths. Attendees can share information and find new partners over a locally-grown lunch.


In Cedar Grove, Anathoth Community Garden will share the story of how one congregation's garden fosters reconcilliation and provides nutritious, low-cost food to the community.
In Goldsboro, the field trip will feature the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a project of NC State, NC A&T, and the NC Department of Agriculture that provides agricultural research, extension, and education for our state.

Registration of $10 includes a fresh, locally grown lunch. To register and get more information, visit www.cometothetablenc.org. If you have suggestions for groups or people who would like to learn about this conference, e-mail Claire Hermann at hermann@unc.edu.
To register by phone, call Rose Gurkin at (919) 828-6501.

"Come to the Table" is hosted by the North Carolina Council of Churches.

"A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: 'This business of settling differences is not just.' This business of ... filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. ... There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war." Martin Luther King, Jr.