The group plans to hold a news conference near U.S. Rep. Mike Turner’s office at 10 a.m. today at St. John’s United Church of Christ, 515 E 3rd St. in Dayton.
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The group will include the Rev. Dr. Brian Newcomb, David’s United Church of Christ; Pastor Mackenzie Kambizi, Ethan Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church; Michelle Riley, The Foodbank; Deacon Nick Bates, Hunger Network in Ohio; and Pastor Bob Swanson, First Lutheran Church.
Religious leaders and local farmers’ market advocates that accept SNAP/EBT will also deliver a moral declaration signed by more than 55 Ohio faith leaders to Turner’s office demanding lawmakers do the right thing and reject these immoral policies that will increase suffering, hunger and poverty, according to the group.
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