Texas at the Table Road Trip.

Texas at the Table: Project Go!
Partnership of Texas Hunger Initiative, Go Now Missions and World Hunger Relief, Inc.

Do you care about your fellow Texans in need? Do you care about social injustice? Do you want to see hunger in Texas put to an end by 2015? Do you want to help others know how they can make a difference? Do you like adventure?

These are the questions 5 young ladies from 5 universities in TX said ‘YES’ to when they signed up for this trip and began to raise their funds!

What?

• We will begin at the World Hunger Farm, where we will be immersed into learning more about our food system – including working on a farm, living in a house without electricity or running water, and cooking a meal from garden to plate over a wood-fired stove. While in Waco, we will begin our discussion of the food system and hunger in the land of overabundance – as well as start thinking about larger questions to ask projects we encounter along the road.
• As we travel across the state we will be exposed to work in urban gardening, summer feeding programs, sustainable agriculture efforts, farming, food pantries, food rescue operations, and more.
• We may also have the chance to meet with representatives in our capital to address the needs of the hungry in Texas.
• Some of the team’s work and reactions will be filmed.

Who?

• 5 students through Go Now Missions!
• Bethel Erickson, VISTA @ World Hunger Relief Farm
• Mallory Homeyer, Lead Organizer @ Texas Hunger Initiative (graduate of Truett Seminary and Baylor School of Social Work).

Where exactly will we be going?

• The Trip starts in Waco at the World Hunger Relief Farm www.worldhungerrelief.org
• We will travel to Lubbock, San Angelo, San Antonio, McAllen and Austin
• We will make stops along the way as well!

Dates: July 5th - 25th

Housing and Meals

• Friends from all over the state: Food Bank staff, friends of BGCT, churches, Baptist University of the Americas, Valley Baptist Mission Center and others have offered their homes and dorms to help cut costs for this team that had been raising their own funds and preparing all semester for this trip!
• Thank you! This would not be possible without you all!

Support
Please keep us in your prayers from July 5th-25th:

• Pray for safety on the road and on site
• pray that we remain healthy
• pray for our sponsors in each city
• pray for all of us on the team as we will be challenged emotionally, physically and spiritually by what we see and learn
• pray for the ripple effect of learning, awareness and action that will come for this trip to affect change in TX

Each of us will take turn reflecting on what we experience each day .... follow along and learn through our eyes, ears and hearts about the concern of hunger in our very own state, what others are doing to help and what YOU can do.