Program Overview

Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response, a small group program created in partnership with Bread for the World, seeks to create a movement of solidarity between Christians with sufficient access to food and those experiencing food insecurity.

By fostering active listening, dialogue, and prayer, Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response creates a group experience of trust and compassion. Through learning from articles, online viewing, and two resource books, it lends new insights to participants’ awareness of the causes and consequences of food insecurity. By introducing new spiritual practices and actions, it cultivates an expanding community of Christians who are working to end hunger throughout the U.S. and across the globe.

Hunger: A Faith and Justice Response will challenge participants’ thinking about food insecurity, its causes, its impact, and viable steps to eliminate it. Groups explore themes including food deserts, food insecurity and nutrition, SNAP, the effect of the U.S. racial wealth gap on food insecurity, underemployment and food insecurity, food waste, public policy around farming, and COVID-19’s impact on hunger.  The goal of this program is to guide participants in discerning how they are called to action, regardless of whether they’re interested in advocating for just and compassionate public policies, alleviating global hunger, or responding to local food insecurity.