"If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday." - Isaiah 58:10 (ESV)

In the United States, more than 47 million people, including 14 million children, are food insecure. In Ohio, one in five children faces hunger. Lack of jobs that provide a living wage has always been one of the root causes of hunger in the U.S. Add in high inflation, harder-to-obtain benefits, and less money for emergency food organizations, and the number of people experiencing hunger and food insecurity has risen exponentially.

What does The United Methodist Church say?

"Jesus’ own concern for human need in his ministry is a model for the church’s concern. His opposition to those who would ignore the needs of the neighbor makes clear that we grossly misunderstand and fail to grasp God’s grace if we imagine that God overlooks, condones, or easily tolerates our indifference to the plight of our neighbors, our greed and selfishness, or our systems of injustice and oppression." - UM Book of Resolutions, #4051

"We decry the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the concentration of wealth in the hands of ever smaller percentages of the global population. We lament that too many of the world's people lack the basic resources necessary for survival and pledge ourselves to work toward the eradication of the roots and effects of poverty." - UM Social Principles 2025-2028, Economic Community, Economic Challenges