Rev. Allison Mark is senior pastor of Faith United Methodist Church, a historically Japanese American congregation. She previously served as interim pastor at North Hollywood First United Methodist Church; associate pastor at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles and First United Methodist Church in Pasadena; and as coordinator of the Young Clergy Initiative, a collaborative project of the California-Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church and Claremont School of Theology aimed at increasing the number of young clergy. Mark is a Bread for the World activist and former Hunger Justice Leader. She is an energetic worker for justice and deeply engaging in the world. Mark holds a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion and is ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church.
These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
Better nutrition is a necessary component of a country’s capacity to achieve development goals such as economic growth and improved public health.
Worldwide, maternal and child malnutrition causes millions of deaths each year. In some countries, it holds entire generations back from reaching their economic potential.
Dear Members of Congress,
As the president and Congress are preparing their plans for this year, almost 100 church leaders—from all the families of U.S. Christianity—are...
This devotional guide invites deepened relationship with and among Pan-African people and elected leaders in the mission to end hunger and poverty.
Thank you for inviting me to preach here at Duke University Chapel. And I especially want to thank the Bread for the World members who have come this morning.
Bruce Puckett urged...
These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
Bread for the World and its partners are asking Congress to provide $250 million for global nutrition in the fiscal year 2020 budget.
In 2017, 11.8 percent of households in the U.S.—40 million people—were food-insecure, meaning that they were unsure at some point during the year about how they would provide for their next meal.