I Was Hungry
Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
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- $ 7.900,00
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- $ 7.900,00
Descripción editorial
Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food . . ." (Matthew 25:35). However, the problems of hunger and poverty are too large and too complex for any one of us to resolve individually.
I Was Hungry offers not only an assessment of the current crisis but also a strategy for addressing it. Jeremy Everett, a noted advocate for the hungry and poor, calls Christians to work intentionally across ideological divides to build trust with one another and impoverished communities and effectively end America's hunger crisis. Everett, appointed by US Congress to the National Commission on Hunger, founded and directs the Texas Hunger Initiative, a successful ministry that is helping to eradicate hunger in Texas and around the globe. Everett details the organization's history and tells stories of its work with communities from West Texas to Washington, DC, helping Christians of all political persuasions understand how they can work together to truly make a difference.
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Everett, founder and executive director of the Texas Hunger Initiative, asks readers to help feed the needy in his persuasive debut. "Hunger is a solvable problem," he writes, and "the time to do so is now." Mining his years of experience working on crisis relief and within chronically impoverished communities (primarily in Texas and Maine), Everett tells of massive efforts he was involved in to coordinate food supply chains and demonstrates the power of working together. Citing biblical mandates such as Matthew 25:31 46, he believes that helping one's neighbors is something all Christians are called to do. Everett does no hand-wringing, and instead intersperses his personal stories with research and practical solutions for addressing hunger and poverty. He lays out "five steps to create a hunger-free community coalition" recruit, establish structure, plan for action, take action, assess progress and addresses potential political hurdles, such as partisan deadlock on legislative committees. To show how perseverance can pay off, he includes an instructive anecdote about how infighting on the National Commission on Hunger was eventually overcome through slow, incremental building of consensus toward reform. Everett's book will appeal to Christians looking to give back to their community, as well as any reader interested in the plight of America's poor.
