Lenten Hunger Offering

The Lowell Elementary School Educational Justice Project is an in-person, socially distanced enrichment program for 16 Lowell Elementary School students. Held at 415 Westlake, the program is soon expanding to 48 students and looking for partners to help! The program is specifically targeted to students experiencing varying levels of housing insecurity and who are at the furthest ends of educational justice. The daily program will run through the end of the academic year and consists of educational support, tutoring, online access, meals, and other enrichment programs. PRLC’s Foodbank and Outreach Program are supporting this project by providing snacks for the students and through our Lenten Hunger Offering. Your donation to the offering will help ensure that our students with the greatest needs have healthy food throughout the day as well as to take home for the weekends. An organizer of this project is former PRLC Administrator Darren Hochstedler, who reached out to us for support.

We’re splitting the offering between the above program and Lutheran World Relief’s Hunger Challenge 2021 campaign. LWR aims to raise $250,000 nationally during Lent to address the immediate needs of hungry populations around the world. The coronavirus pandemic has deepened the challenges of poverty for many families that were already struggling to survive. LWR has programs already in place to meet these local needs, and our offering will be put to immediate use to address hunger.
Please contribute to the offering through www.prlc.org/giving, or send a check to the church designated for the “Lenten Hunger Offering” in the memo line. Thanks for helping out!