The Oregon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Oregon's Farm Worker Union PCUN invite Willamette Valley churches and ecumenical community groups to participate in "Solidarity Summer 2024," collaborating to provide 500 equipped backpacks for farm worker families in the 2024 wildfire season:
July, August and September. Emergency supplies cost about $45 per backpack to protect against smoke, dehydration, dust and loss of communication in outdoor work and evacuation in an extreme wildfire event. You may make tax-deductible cash donations before July 1. Give online: oregonsynod.org, text field "PCUN Solidarity" or by mail: checks payable to "Oregon Synod," Mail to Oregon Synod, 2800 N. Vancouver Ave., Suite 101, Portland, OR 97227.
Solidarity Summer 2024 Backpack Celebration & Workshop -- Save the Date: July 18, 2024, 1:00 P.M.--4:00 P.M., PCUN union office, 300 Young St., Woodburn, OR 9707. Join faith and labor allies to acknowledge the land, fill backpacks and share blessings with PCUN staff leading farm worker summer wildfire preparedness workshops during July & August. Learn more by contacting Sarah Loose, Director, Oregon Synod Director of Disaster & Climate Resilience, email sarahl@oregonsynod.org or in the midWillamette Valley: Ed Brandt, Saint Mark member, Social Ministry Committee, 503-917-1326 (call / text), edgarbrandt74@gmail.com (email), for details about tax-deductible cash donations & car-pooling (meet July 18 @ 12:00 P.M. noon, at Saint Mark Lutheran Church).
Editor's note: Readers are invited to read this short but challenging and radical article providing context for why the backpacks are needed.
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