Download Food Fast Resources
Food Fast resources will help you create a meaningful fasting experience for your group. You'll find Coordinator's Manuals from the past 7 years filled with reflections, group projects, energizers and many other activities. Presentations in PowerPoint and Flash will enhance prayers and reflections. Discussion guides that can be used with the Food Fast videos are also available. You'll find many other resources that can be used to deepen the retreat experience including stories about youth around the world, information on world poverty and hunger, and Catholic social teaching principles.
To order free copies of the 2007-08 materials visit our order page or call 800-222-0025.
Food Fast Manuals and Multimedia Presentations
Each year CRS develops a Coordinator's Manual (in English and Spanish) that contains instructions on how to organize the Food Fast. Food Fast is very user friendly — you don't have to write anything! It's all right there! The manual includes icebreakers, learning opportunities, reflections, prayers, Catholic teaching — all you have to do is recruit your team, open the book, collect your materials, get your youth signed up and go!
- Food Fast 2007-08: Fair Trade and Water/Sanitation
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- The focus of the 2007-08 Food Fast manual is on two issues that impact world hunger and food security — fair trade and water/sanitation. The activities in this year's manual will challenge Catholic youth to consider how we can reduce world hunger by focusing on those who are most affected by it, remembering that with every right comes a responsibility, and reflecting on how access to food can be impacted by environmental issues such as drought.
- Coordinator's Manual 2007-08 English | español
- Stations of the Cross English | español
- The livesimply Challenge English | español
- Oración de apertura — ¿Dónde está el amor? español
- Related Multimedia Presentations
- Fast Facts 2007-08 English | español
- Fast Quotes 2007-08 English | español
- Water and Light English | español
- We Believe English | español
- Food Fast 2006-07: Hunger, Conflict and Peace
- The 2006-07 Food Fast manual focuses on the relationship between hunger, conflict and peace. This manual includes a session that explains this relationship, and a series of activities that build on each other.
- Coordinator's Manual 2006-07 English | español
- Related Multimedia Presentations
- In My Prayer English | español
- Faces of the Fast English | español
- What About Hunger? English | español
- Fast Facts English | español
- Faces of Solidarity English | español
- Nomad Education Project English | español
- Food for Work Project English | español
- Fast Quotes English | español
- Peace Meditation English | español
- Food Fast 2005-06: Catholic Social Teaching
- The 2005-06 Food Fast manual focuses on four themes of Catholic social teaching that have bearing on our lifestyle choices — dignity of the human person, rights of workers, preferential option for the poor and solidarity.
- Coordinator's Manual 2005-06 English | español
- Related Multimedia Presentation
- Faces of the Fast English | español
- Food Fast 2004-05 Coordinator's Manual
- Through the 2004-05 Food Fast manual, we hope to give your youth group an opportunity to focus on our global community by fasting in solidarity with the many people in the U.S. and around the world who do not have easy access to food. We also aim to raise awareness on hunger issues through the lens of the social mission of the Catholic Church and to challenge youth groups to take action that will create a lasting change in the world.
- Coordinator's Manual 2004-05 English | español
- Food Fast 2003-04 Coordinator's Manual
- Through the 2003-04 Food Fast materials, participants will learn about some of the factors that cause many of our brothers and sisters around the world to live with hunger and poverty, and what agencies like Catholic Relief Services are doing to address these causes while relieving their effects.
- Coordinator's Manual 2003-04 English | español
- Food Fast 2002-03 Coordinator's Manual
- The 2002-03 Food Fast manual explores the world of people living with HIV and AIDS, to see how this disease that is killing millions of our brothers and sisters is also causing hunger to tighten its hold on its victims.
- Coordinator's Manual 2002-03 English | español
- Food Fast 2001-02 Coordinator's Manual
- The 2001-02 Food Fast manual looks at the issue of child labor in India and how children must work to help support their families, living in poverty. The activities and discussions are designed to raise awareness around hunger and global injustice and engage youth in action to make a difference.
- Coordinator's Manual 2001-02 English | español
Additional Resources
- The livesimply challenge
- Through this activity participants will reflect on what it means to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with people who are poor through the livesimply challenge.
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- The livesimply Challenge English | español
- Life as a Coffee Farmer
- Through this activity participants will learn about the injustices in the coffee supply chain, learn and reflect on the dignity of work of a coffee farmer and be challenged to consider the impact of their economic choices on people in our global economy.
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- Life as a Coffee Farmer Activity English | español
- Journey Against Hunger DVD Discussion Guide
- English | español
- DVD Collection Discussion Guide
- English | español
- Food Fast Flyer
- English | español
- Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
- English | español
- World Poverty and Hunger Data
- English | español
