“WE HAVE LEARNED THAT PARTNERSHIPS ARE VITAL TO WORKING EFFECTIVELY IN OTHER PLACES.”

- DAVE BARTLETT, ORCHARD HILL CHURCH

Your church is invited to partner with Food for the Hungry and start a journey to help the poor. Unify your church body around a cause close to God’s heart. Develop a partnership that changes the lives of people living in poverty. Transform a vulnerable community--and your own--as you follow Christ.

UNIFY.

Imagine your congregation united around one common cause: bringing life change to an impoverished community.

Food for the Hungry’s unique Community-to-Community (C2C) program partners your church with a developing community in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Caribbean. With 40 years of experience meeting physical and spiritual needs worldwide, Food for the Hungry provides everything you need to unify your church around the cause of justice and mercy for the poor.

Through a C2C partnership with Food for the Hungry, you’ll see families communicating with their sponsored children, small groups gathering in prayer for urgent needs in an-other part of the world, and people of all ages participating in short-term teams to learn, grow and serve.

When the people in our pews discover a cause bigger than themselves, the Holy Spirit moves. Sunday attenders become weeklong advocates for the church’s mission. Mem-bers who have never given regularly, discover the joy of giving--and their giving to the poor overflows into generosity with tithes and offerings. Children’s ministries, Bible stud-ies and small groups learn that their place in God’s story is one of ‘doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.’ (Micah 6:8).

“I see a change in our congregation,” said Monty Lightner of Emmanuel Community Church. “We all have a common understanding. There’s a focus that I haven’t seen too often in the church here.”

Let Food for the Hungry be your church’s missional arm. And watch your congregation converge.

DEVELOP.

You know that poverty isn’t easy to solve. It’s a complex problem that can’t be fixed simply by passing out resources.

At Food for the Hungry, we believe that God has the keys for unlocking poverty. Through His Word, God shows us the transformation that can come only through Jesus.

Food for the Hungry (FH) is a Christian international relief and development organiza-tion that has boldly spoken out for and served the poor since 1971, sending courageous heroes to help communities work toward transformation. Thirty percent of our work is relief-oriented, providing urgent help to people in places such as earthquake-ravaged Haiti, and 70 percent of our work is long-term development that helps impoverished communities move toward self-sufficiency. But FH is more than a relief and development organization.

As a tested, trusted and innovative partner, FH respectfully walks with churches, lead-ers and families in more than 25 countries while intentionally reflecting Jesus’ love. FH embraces an intensely personal and Biblical response to God’s call to end physical and spiritual hungers, founded on the premise that “they die one at a time, so we can help them one at a time.”

When you partner with us through our C2C program, your church will become part of our proven strategy for bringing long-lasting hope and change to the vulnerable worldwide.

1. SELECT A COUNTRY. We’ll introduce you to a village or a city neighborhood in the country you choose.

2. INVITE YOUR CONGREGATION to sponsor children in your partner community.

3. PRAY AND LEARN. Through prayer and educational opportunities, take your congre-gation on a journey of discovering God’s heart for the poor and seeing God answer prayer. FH makes it simple by providing you with Bible-based educational resources.

4. GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. Meet your partner community. Take a short-term team to serve alongside community members. Host a national during a mission week-end at church. All year long, your church members can write to their sponsored chil-dren, sharing the hope of Christ and watching the development of an entire community through the eyes of a child.

“I sponsored children before, but without the relationship that the C2C program brings, it was just about giving money. This is so much more. We are building relationships and changing lives at the same time.”

- Jim Cates, elder board member, Emmanuel Community Church

“Our church has a much better understanding of ‘long-term’ and ‘lasting’ with respect to development and commitment,” said Mark Perraut of Southland Christian Church. “Walk-ing alongside each other has been exciting and impactful!”

TRANSFORM.

A church partnership with Food for the Hungry isn’t just a great idea. It’s a proven strategy for empowering the local church and alleviating poverty.

Through your church’s C2C partnership, you’ll see an entire community transformed.

The local church in your partner community will be strengthened in their God-given role to evangelize and serve their neighborhood. Long after your work in the community is completed, local church members will be the hands and feet of Christ there.

Local leaders in your partner community will learn to sustainably solve problems. Issues like dirty water and substandard schools will become opportunities for FH staff to train the mayor, school principal, and other leaders to be capable, committed public servants. Not only will the most urgent poverty issues be alleviated, but local leaders will also be equipped to overcome future challenges on their own.

Families in your partner community will experience life as never before. Mothers and fathers will learn how to provide for their children physically and spiritually.

When churches, leaders and families are developed, the community is transformed. Chil-dren no longer experience hunger and poor health. Their parents earn an income to sus-tain their families. Girls and boys attend school and make goals for their future. Everyone is protected from drought, famine and other disasters by making plans for hard times.

The transformation doesn’t stop in your partner community.

“The C2C program allows us to be part of providing lasting transformation on the sending and the receiving end,” said Neil McMahon of Orchard Hill Church. “The relationships that have developed between us and the FH staff in Mozambique allow this mutual transfor-mation to wash over into our congregation.”

Learn more about FH and the C2C program by contacting our Church Engagement department at 800-248-6437 or c2c@fh.org.

Food for the Hungry is accountable before God and man to be faithful stew-ards in effectively using the gifts we receive, providing the most help to impoverished people and communities. We work diligently to maintain integrity and transparency in our financial practices. Food for the Hungry is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and abides by all of its strict accounting standards.