Hunger Education Retreat Day

Hi, Seventh and Eighth Graders!

Thanks for being so well-behaved and attentive on our Hunger Education Retreat Day. I hope that it was a good day for you.

I have lots of questions for you.

Did you learn anything new? If you did, do you have any plans to do anything about it?

What part of what you learned today do you think you will really remember?

What part of the day was your favorite? I think my favorite part was when you made the poster prayer stations and we took them over to church and did lectio divina with them. I loved looking down the aisle of the church during the oratio and seeing you all in prayer. I hope that our time in church today gave you a chance to talk with God about how He means for you to respond to the problems of the people of the world, especially those who are hungry.

I meant to ask you to do me a favor at the end of the day, and it might be too late for some of you, but I'll go ahead and ask it now. If you still have your poster, I would like to ask you to take it home and hang it up in your room for a week. During that week, think about what the poster has to say. If there is a Scripture quotation on your poster, maybe you could add that quotation to your daily prayer. At the end of the week, see if you have any new ideas about what the poster has to say or what we learned today.

God bless you.