New Website for Bread for the World Indiana

Welcome to Bread for the World - Indiana to our cyberspace family!  Through the hard work of Bread members Jim Runnels, David Miner and others, Bread groups in Indiana recently launched their new website in 2008. The site is pleasant and very user-friendly.  Check it out

Those of us who have been grassroots leaders with Bread for a long time remember when our principal means of communication was the telephone and the US Postal Service.  We used telephones (and I mean land lines -not cell phones) to activate quicklines and action alerts and to remind members about local activities (after they received a post card or flyer in the mail).

Pretty soon e-mail became a favored means of communication, (and a godsend to people like me who still would rather not make a phone call if I can help it).

Then we discovered other creative ways to communicate with the membership via cyberspace: The website and the blog. For a while there were only five local/state groups that had websites: Metro Detroit/Southeast Michigan, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Orleans (incorporated into the Global Network for Justice site), and Oregon.  And there are a couple of blogs set up by Bread members.  Cathy Brechtelsbauer in South Dakota has created a South Dakota Food Stamp Challenge blog and I have created a Bread for the World New Mexico blog to complement our website.  And Elaine VanCleave in Birmingham communicates with many of her Bread and ONE Campaign volunteers via her ONEBirmingham Yahoo Group.

If you have a website, blog or Yahoo group that you use to communicate with local Bread members, we'd love to hear from you.