Huge Coalition of Christian Churches to Fight Hunger

As a follow-up to the last couple of posts about hunger-relief efforts, I just noticed this post on the blog of the Religious News Service:

In Monday's RNS report Kevin Eckstrom writes that the largest-ever church unity group was launched on Friday: Leaders of 34 U.S. church bodies have officially launched the broadest-ever Christian unity organization in American history, and said fighting poverty will be its first priority. Christian Churches Together in the USA was formally inaugurated on Friday (March 31) after a three-day meeting outside Atlanta. A public kickoff is scheduled at the group's scheduled meeting next February. The looseknit group brings together five Christian "families" who have long been divided by historical and theological differences, including Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelicals and Pentecostals, historically black churches and Orthodox churches. Together, the five "families" represent more than 100 million American Christians. The nation's largest Protestant body, the Southern Baptist Convention, has said it will not participate.

Too bad about the Southern Baptists. Can't even agree to work with other Christians on hunger relief.