Circling Toward Food Justice

This week, many churches will celebrate the Eucharist, providing a fantastic opportunity to tie in food justice themes with the many rich Communion pieces within our tradition. The hymns “One Bread, One Body” (UMH 620), “O God, You Give Us Grapes and Grain,” and “Broken for Me, Broken for You” (TFWS 2263) invite us to expand our Communion Table to include all people and all creation. “Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore/Tu Has Venido a la Orilla” (UMH 344) and “The Summons” (TFWS 2130) tie in with the John text. In the Easter season, of course, our worship should be replete with praising God - especially with this Revelation text! So, “Holy, Holy, Holy” (UMH 64) “O For a Thousand Tongues” (UMH 57), “So Will I (100 Billion X),” and “Oh We Praise You” (contemporary) tie in well with that text. “Welcome” (W&S 3152) would be a great opening hymn, and it ties in themes of creation. Finally, the hymn “Pass Your Bread” incorporates food justice, creation justice, and inclusion. Click here to download the sheet music/chords.

Pass Your Bread by rev. Dr. Dirk Damonte

Permission is granted by the composer to use and distribute these lyrics in print or electronically for worship during this season.

Pass your bread around the world
Share your cup with all on earth
There’s a hungry, thirsty world, and it needs you
Pass your bread around the world
Pass your bread around the world

Make your table have a space
For the ones you’ve turned away
There is always room at the table of God’s love
Make your table have a space
Make your table have a space

Let your voice cry in the wild
Let your light shine in the dark
If the song’s to be heard, then we must sing it now
Let your voice cry in the wild
Let your voice cry in the wild

Pass your bread around the world
Share your cup with all on earth
There’s a hungry, thirsty world, and it needs you
Pass your bread around the world
Pass your bread around the world

Hymns:

• TFWS 2263 - Broken for Me, Broken for You
• O God, You Give Us Grapes and Grain
• UMH 620 - One Bread, One Body
• TFWS 2130 - The Summons
• UMH 64 – Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
• UMH 57 and 59 - O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing/Mil Voces Para Celebrar
• Pass Your Bread - Dirk Damonte
• UMH 625 – Come, Let Us Eat
• UMH 344 - Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore/Tu Has Venido a la Orilla
• UMH 369 - Blessed Assurance
• UMH 707 - Hymn of Promise
• W&S 3129 - Touch the Earth Lightly
• W&S 3152 - Welcome
• UMH 147 - All Things Bright and Beautiful

Contemporary Songs:

• All Creatures Lament - Porter’s Gate
• So Will I (100 Billion X) - Hillsong
• Oh, We Praise You - Glory Revival Music
• If We Are the Body - Casting Crowns
• Rejoice - Dustin Kensrue
• Of the Earth - The Many
• I Believe - Mark Miller
• Beyond Belief - The Many
• Testify - NeedtoBreathe
• Testify to Love - Wynonna

Rev. Kristina Sinks is a graduate of Garrett Seminary and a Provisional Deacon in the UMC (California-Nevada). She sings and manages tours for the music collective The Many, which brings justice-oriented music to progressive Christians and spiritual communities around the world, serves at GreenFaith, a global, multi-faith climate justice organization. She resides in the Chicago area on the traditional, unceded homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwa, Ottawa and Potawatomi.