CONTACT:  Delis Alejandro  |  310-566-1530  | 

JustFaith^® is a small group process that invites participants to explore the Gospel call to compassion and justice. JustFaith is an intensive and successful model of justice education and spiritual formation that consists of weekly meetings and employs books, videos, speakers, discussion, prayer, retreats, and hands-on experiences. The intent is to provide a tapestry of learning opportunities that emphasize and enliven the remarkable justice tradition of the Catholic Church. Participants have the privilege of becoming a community with others and sharing a journey of faith and compassion that is both life-giving and challenging.

This fall, the St. Monica JustFaith Community offers the following opportunity to dig deep into our faith’s Justice tradition and heed the call of the Gospel to heal the world. As we continue to navigate the pandemic we will use different platforms to present the contents of the course. The 8-week sessions will be conducted on Zoom. Retreats and speaker events will be either hybrid or in-person. Immersion experiences will be in person.

Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response

How can people of faith help put an end to hunger?

This series is an 8-session, prayerful process that includes study, rich dialogue, and an immersion experience. 

This program inspires and equips participants to take concrete action to end hunger and food insecurity.

Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response seeks to create a movement of solidarity between Christians with sufficient access to food and those experiencing food insecurity, in the U.S. and worldwide. By fostering active listening, dialogue, and prayer, the program creates a group experience of trust and compassion. By fostering learning from articles, online viewing, and two resource books, lends new insights to participants’ awareness of the causes and consequences of food insecurity. Encouraging new spiritual practices and actions, it cultivates an expanding community of  Christians who are working to end hunger.

The course will challenge not only participants’ – but also your own – thinking about food insecurity, its causes, its impact, and viable steps to eliminate it. Groups explore themes including food deserts, food insecurity and nutrition, SNAP, the effect of the U.S. racial wealth gap on food insecurity, underemployment and food insecurity, food waste, public policy around farming, and COVID-19’s impact on hunger.  

Schedule: Wednesdays, 7–9 p.m. on Zoom

Reading for the Course

• I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis by Jeremy Everett
• The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the Word by Jenny Eaton Dyer and Catherine Falsani

Immersion Experiences: Required

• Oct. 16, Noon–5 p.m.: Westside Foodbank Walk, Santa Monica Beach and Virtual Option
• TBA: A choice of serving at a local shelter/food distribution center 

Cost for Books and Materials : $50

Registration

CONTACT:  Delis Alejandro  |  310-566-1530  | 

JustFaith^® is a small group process that invites participants to explore the Gospel call to compassion and justice. JustFaith is an intensive and successful model of justice education and spiritual formation that consists of weekly meetings and employs books, videos, speakers, discussion, prayer, retreats, and hands-on experiences. The intent is to provide a tapestry of learning opportunities that emphasize and enliven the remarkable justice tradition of the Catholic Church. Participants have the privilege of becoming a community with others and sharing a journey of faith and compassion that is both life-giving and challenging.

 

This fall, the St. Monica JustFaith Community offers the following opportunity to dig deep into our faith’s Justice tradition and heed the call of the Gospel to heal the world. As we continue to navigate the pandemic we will use different platforms to present the contents of the course. The 8-week sessions will be conducted on Zoom. Retreats and speaker events will be either hybrid or in-person. Immersion experiences will be in person.

Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response

How can people of faith help put an end to hunger?

This series is an 8-session, prayerful process that includes study, rich dialogue, and an immersion experience. 

This program inspires and equips participants to take concrete action to end hunger and food insecurity.

 

Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response seeks to create a movement of solidarity between Christians with sufficient access to food and those experiencing food insecurity, in the U.S. and worldwide. By fostering active listening, dialogue, and prayer, the program creates a group experience of trust and compassion. By fostering learning from articles, online viewing, and two resource books, lends new insights to participants’ awareness of the causes and consequences of food insecurity. Encouraging new spiritual practices and actions, it cultivates an expanding community of  Christians who are working to end hunger.

 

The course will challenge not only participants’ – but also your own – thinking about food insecurity, its causes, its impact, and viable steps to eliminate it. Groups explore themes including food deserts, food insecurity and nutrition, SNAP, the effect of the U.S. racial wealth gap on food insecurity, underemployment and food insecurity, food waste, public policy around farming, and COVID-19’s impact on hunger.  

 

Schedule: Wednesdays, 7–9 p.m. on Zoom

Oct. 12	Session 1	Food Insecurity & Nutrition
Oct. 19	Session 2	Food Deserts
Oct. 26	Session 3	Hunger and the Cost to Live
Nov. 1	Session 4	Food Waste
Nov. 9	Session 5	SNAP
Nov. 16	Session 6	Racism & Food Insecurity
Nov. 30	Session 7	Food & Farming
Dec. 4	Session 8	Advocacy & Action

 

Reading for the Course

• I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis by Jeremy Everett
• The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the Word by Jenny Eaton Dyer and Catherine Falsani

Immersion Experiences: Required

• Oct. 16, Noon–5 p.m.: Westside Foodbank Walk, Santa Monica Beach and Virtual Option
• TBA: A choice of serving at a local shelter/food distribution center 

Cost for Books and Materials : $50

Registration

 

Background on JustFaith Ministries

 

JustFaith is a small group process that invites participants to explore the Gospel call to JustFaith is a small group process that invites participants to explore the Gospel call to compassion and justice. JustFaith is an intensive and successful model of justice education and spiritual formation that consists of weekly meetings, and employs books, videos, speakers, discussion, prayer, retreats, and hands-on experiences. The intent is to provide a tapestry of learning opportunities that emphasize and enliven the remarkable justice tradition of the Catholic Church. Participants have the privilege of becoming community with others and sharing a journey of faith and compassion that is both life-giving and challenging.

 

JustFaith Ministries is a nonprofit organization that forms, informs, and transforms people of faith by offering programs and resources that sustain them in their compassionate commitment to build a more just and peaceful world. They offer a variety of programs and resources that teach and inform on the justice tradition of the Catholic Church and Catholic Social Teaching. JustFaith Ministries is located in Louisville, Kentucky and can be contacted at https://justfaith.org/ or by phone at (502) 429-0865.

 

 

Requirements

The program requires a significant commitment and one that needs to be entered into with some prayerful discernment and the ability to make space in your life for personal enrichment. The program consists of:

 

• Attendance of all scheduled sessions.
  
  
• Weekly reading and viewing of videos which must be completed before each session.
  
  
• Each phase contains an immersion experience where you will have the opportunity to interact with those in the community who are living in poverty. These experiences are usually held at a local nonprofit on Saturdays - to be determined and dependent on COVID guidelines.
  
  
• A retreat is held at the start of the program to learn more about each other. To be determined and dependent on COVID guidelines.