1. Life Revitalisation Campaign of the Ecology Community Movement Center (ECMC) Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK)

2. The campaign’s aims  being aware of a global table community  thinking of those facing empty bowls  emptying our bowls in respect of those who filled them

3. The campaigns projects  study group on ecology and humanity  learning and discussing about food issues, ethics, our responsibility and possibilities  sharing food from own vegetable garden  church gardening competition  eco-travel to Korea’s rural areas  organic food cooperative to foster rural urban direct transaction and producer-consumer interaction

4. study group and table community

5. gardening and awarding ceremony

6. eco travel

7. PROK solar cooperative  cooperation of PROK, Hanshin University and local citizens  members pay to become part of coop  money used to establish 50kW solar panels on the rooftop of Hanshin Theological Seminary

8. PROK food cooperative  PROK cooperative initiated in 2013 by  PROK rural ministers association (RMA)  rural development institute (RDI) and  PROK women’s association  aim to establish direct links between rural producers and urban consumers  production aims on organic, integrated, low or no pesticide farming  first items were organic rice, sticky rice, brown rice and beef

9. organisation of PROK cooperative  members pay a fee to become part of coop  money is used to set up urban-rural direct transaction system for food items  cooperative establishes contact to rural producers, receives orders from urban consumers and distribute the products  overcome producers’-consumers’ demands discrepancies: gross market system, distribution through churches, small scale packages for private consumers

10. public relations activity  “Table Community” event in production areas: meeting of producers and consumers to build relation and trust  “Revive the Life” academy in Seoul: inform consumers about “table of life” issue and PROK cooperative  advertising in local churches in Seoul and surrounding, at rural minsters and women’s association meetings and among ECMC members  distributing gifts for Easter Sunday (eggs in 2013, rice in 2014)  introduce each item to the consumers, develop “recipe of the month” with coop food items, publish a booklet with producers stories and best practice examples

11. current situation (by July 2014)  ECMC has role of incubator for two years  962 members and 47 producers  357 PROK churches (46 in Seoul)  ordering by phone or text message, online shopping possibility in preparation (blog open: www.prokcoop.or.kr)

12. PROK COOP market at Jeonju Ahn-di-ok church (July 2014)

13. PROK COOP booth at PROK 99 th General Assembly (Sep. 23~26 th 2014)

14. The 1 st PROK COOP producer-consumer consultation (July 14 th 2014/Duck-chon church)

15. future plans  plan to encourage ministers to tackle “revive the life” topic in the sermon  every week in another church  plan to sell products before production  “my tree”, “my field”  plan to offer rural life experiences  consumers give a hand at harvest, in villages or in farm houses  plan to open an offline store in Seoul (2015)

16. Thank you for your attention!