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End poverty by starting relationships
FH's International President Keith Wright and FH Staff Eva Amor with people from Catmon. Every morning, thousands of Food for the Hungry staff walk, bicycle or drive into some of the most vulnerable...
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“You will always have the poor among you …”
I can’t prove it, but after many years of pastoral experience, including numerous conversations on the subject with believers and non-believers alike, I’m convinced this is the best known reference in...
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On the edge of the fiscal cliff … again
Yesterday, I had the privilege of visiting the office of a prominent U.S. Senator here in Washington D.C. to discuss the once-again looming fiscal cliff. We talked about what faith-based...
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Children inspiring hope
FH Chief Development Officer Tim Smith with children who inspire hope. Since becoming Chief Development Officer at Food for the Hungry in 2011, I have spent a lot of time visiting our work around the...
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“The worst place on earth to be a woman”
On March 7, 2012, the PBS NewsHour ran a piece with this title about women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Food for the Hungry (FH) has been working there since the eastern part of the...
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Feeling lost in today’s world?
FH International President Keith Wright with Gibril and his three siblings. A funny thing happened when I went to help change the conditions of the poor in Africa. I was changed. Twenty years ago, I...
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Inspiring hope to end poverty
Her name is Gize. It means “time.” When she became a participant several years ago in Food for the Hungry’s (FH’s) USAID-funded program in Alaba, Ethiopia, Gize was unfortunately running out time....
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Hope and courage
Rwanda is rising from the ashes with a growing economy and clean environment. On March 21, Food for the Hungry (FH) hosted our Hope and Courage conference with participation from Phoenix pastors and...
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Melinda Evans: celebrating her consuming passion to radically love god and...
Dave and Melinda Evans “When I saw the announcement in the Food for the Hungry (FH) newsletter, I did a double take: David Evans and his family become Hunger Corps staff in Guatemala. I wondered how...
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We can’t gamble with lives for so-called food aid reform
As we near President Obama’s budget submission, many in the international aid community are concerned about reports that U.S. food aid to the most vulnerable is at risk. Specifically the program...
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Boston bombing: Will you help or hide?
(Photo by Ryan Horn) If we needed more evidence that we live and work in a broken world, the Boston marathon bombing was a rude reminder. Food for the Hungry (FH) is called to serve the most...
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The purpose of the poor
We are all familiar, to some extent, with the plight of the materially poor. However, in the grand scheme of things—do the poor have a positive purpose? According to a respected colleague from Kenya,...
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Stay the course
While I was swimming, biking and running during a half ironman triathlon last October, I constantly faced at least one of two main obstacles: time and fatigue. Both of these challenges nearly took me...
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Life: A seamless garment
Food for the Hungry helped to reunite this mother and her children after they were separated during the genocide in Rwanda. The French philosopher, Voltaire, wrote: “Those who can make you believe...
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Celebrating the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Thanks to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a million at-risk children have been born HIV-free. In 2003, HIV/AIDS was ravaging the world—killing millions of adults and leaving...
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Two models of reality: Which is your biblical worldview?
Ideally, every Christian has a concept of reality shaped by the Bible, a biblical worldview. However, the kind of worldview model a Christian adopts powerfully impacts that person’s understanding of...
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Guns or butter: responding to jihadists in Africa
A cursory search of the major media giants (e.g., The New York Times and The Washington Post) over the past two days reveals an interesting array of articles on the growing might of jihadists in...
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What does “back to school” look like in Burundi?
It’s that time of year again! The ads on television announce blue light specials for notebooks, pens and backpacks. Kids rouse from their late summer slumber to the terrifying prospect of book reports...
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True things about God and us
Where do we put the blame when bad things happen? The Apostle Paul says three true things about God in Ephesians 4:6, “… there is one God and Father of all who is over all, through all and in all.” In...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: The Dream Continues
It was 50 years ago today that Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and powerfully described his dream for a more just and equal society. “And so even...
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