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Offering of Letters

Sponsored by Advocacy For Peace and Justice

Offering of Letters a Huge Success

Parishioners wrote approximately 282 letters during this year's Offering of Letters. The Letters, which asked congress to help cut world poverty by funding U.S. aid programs to improve health, nutrition and education, have let our elected officials know that Parishioners at St. Peter's take seriously Jesus Christ's message of caring for those in need.

In 2006 your letters and those of Christians throughout the nation helped to secure an increase of $1.4 billion in poverty-focused development assistance, in order to keep our nation's promises to the world's hungry and poor people. In 2007 your letters helped secure an increase in funding for food stamps in the Farm Bill as well as increasing subsidies for small farmers in the United States..

Your letters let those in Washington know that you take Christ's message of hope for those in need seriously. "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me" Matthew 25:35-36.

A special thanks to those who helped out with the Offering of Letters. It would not be possible without your help.

Steve Citarella
Advocacy for Peace and Social Justice Ministry

For more information contact Steven Citarella at 201 265-1317

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