Feasting and Fasting

Objective: To reflect and pray.

Duration: 5-10 minutes

Food Art Game

Objective: To have participants conceptualize their understanding of the issue of food sovereignty through art, which can help raise awareness of the issues in the larger community.

Duration: 1-2 hours

Food or Fuel

Objective: To introduce participants to the struggles faced by small-scale farmers in the Global South.

Duration: 60-90 minutes

ON 6-8

Food Quiz (Jeopardy Game)

Objective: To introduce or review facts about Hunger, Food, and Development and Peace.

Duration: 30 minutes

ON-8

Forced Migration and the Culture of Encounter

Objective: To reflect on migration in our faith tradition and introduce the global Share the Journey campaign.

Duration: 5-15 minutes

Frisbee Toss

Objective: To encourage participants to get to know one another and think about the environment.

Duration: 15-20 minutes

From Fire to Action

Objective: Consider new eco-friendly habits we can adopt and take action in solidarity with human rights defenders in the Amazon

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Garbage Inventory

Objective: To raise awareness of how much waste is generated on a daily basis in participants’ school, parish or community.

Duration: 60 minutes

Get Your Facts Right

Objective: Get to know each other.

Duration: 5-15 minutes

Global Reality Meal

Objective: To provide insight into hunger through an effective dramatization of the inequality of our world.

Duration: 1-2 hours

Going on a Picnic!

Objective: To learn about the environmental impacts of food consumption patterns.

Duration: 15-20 minutes

Good Samaritan Story

Objective: To learn about the Catholic Social Teaching principle of Solidarity and the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, through the parable of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37).

Duration: 30 minutes

Grocery Store Challenge

Objective: To see what options are available to us for local, sustainable or fair-trade foods, why these are important, and what changes we can make to support these options.

Duration: 1-2 hours

In the name of the Father… in the shoes of peoples in the Amazon

Objective: Reflect on our impacts on the planet and develop greater awareness of the inequalities climate change produces

Duration: 30-45 minutes

Journalling

Objective: Reflect on the day and what it means to attend THINKfast.

Duration: 20-30 minutes

Just Like Me

Objective : To expand the circle of people for whom we have genuine concern and encourage connection with those on the other side of the world.

Duration : 10-20 minutes

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Forced Migration and the Culture of Encounter

Frisbee Toss

From Fire to Action

Garbage Inventory

Get Your Facts Right

Global Reality Meal

Going on a Picnic!

Good Samaritan Story

Grocery Store Challenge

In the name of the Father… in the shoes of peoples in the Amazon

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