Faith and Generosity

Changing the world

Texas Baptist offering for World Hunger

Texas Baptists are working together with many Baptist partners in Texas and around the world to show Christ’s love and generosity by meeting immediate hunger needs and helping people escape the devastation of poverty. Alongside these trusted partners, the Texas Baptist Hunger Offering seeks to empower those in need by funding relief and development projects that are holistic and sustainable. Whether providing clean water to drink, nutritious food from a community garden, or education to find a job, your generosity, through this Offering, is reaching and changing the world.

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Where the money goes

The Texas Baptist Hunger Offering supports many specific ministries around the world. These ministries provide: food and meal distribution, agriculture and livestock initiatives, clean water and sanitation, micro-enterprise development, and job training.

Ninety-one percent of gifts go directly to support hunger ministries.

The Offering supports initiatives addressing rural and urban poverty, border ministries, disaster relief, and Christian Women’s and Men’s Job Corps. Ninety-one percent of gifts go directly to support hunger ministries; nine percent is used for education and promotion.

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Stats

The need is growing

  • The poverty rate in Texas is 25% higher than the nation as a whole. * Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • In 2010, Texas ranked second highest state in the nation with number of hungry children. * Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • Ten of the 30 poorest
    U.S. counties are in Texas. * U.S. Department of Commerce
  • 27% of Texans report difficulty affording food for their families. * Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • 70% of childhood deaths worldwide are associated with malnutrition
    and preventable diseases. * Bread for the World
  • 12.4 million hungry
    Americans are children. * 2007 Hunger Almanac, Feeding America
  • There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for
    a healthy and productive life. * World Food Programme
  • More than 60% of chronically hungry people are women. * U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Almost half of the world’s population exists on less than $2 per day. * World Bank

Gifts

You can help

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Something wonderful has happened!

The Texas Baptist Hunger Offering has grown to be a major offering for sustaining relief, development, water and agricultural projects around the world.

When your gifts are received through this Offering, the recipients say “Texas churches helped us.” And the world over, everyone knows Texas. Your gifts are used in Christ-honoring ways at home and abroad, as mandated in Scripture. And these gifts are not dollars alone. When teams from Texas churches work side by side with Hunger Offering projects, the bonds of Christian friendship deepen into life-giving partnerships. The Texas Baptist Hunger Offering is committed to development that honors Christ and the priorities of local leaders.

Great people are doing the work of building God’s kingdom of love. Your gifts are multiplied because the glory is for God’s generosity through brotherly love. As one enthusiastic overseas pastor and recipient of Offering support said, “Having a water well on our church property has made us a leader in our village. Now we have a new voice every day, and we are able to be living water.”

Join with the psalmist to “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” (Proverbs 31:8) Give and go. Join with the Texas Baptist Hunger Offering today and know the power of faith and generosity to change the world.

Apply

How to apply for funds

To apply for a Hunger Offering grant, request an application from the
Christian Life Commission by contacting the Offering coordinator, Ferrell Foster.
Ferrell Foster

Ferrell Foster

coordinator
Texas Baptist Hunger Offering

Email Ferrell Foster

Christian Life Commission
333 N. Washington
dallas, texas 75246-1798

O: 214.828.5230
F: 214.828.5261

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Provide all of the information requested in the application form, including information about the sponsoring Baptist agency, and send applications by mail as hard copies or by email as attachments to the above address. Attach brief supporting information, including ministry program reports, background and need data, and community profiles. Contact Ferrell Foster to ask questions and/or to get more information about Hunger Offering grants.