United Methodist Men help bridge the hunger gap in America!

We live in a country where millions of Americans don’t always get enough to eat while literally
billions of pounds of perfectly edible food are left behind in farmers’ fields to rot.

It does not have to be that way!

United Methodist Men have joined with the Society of St. Andrew through the Hunger Relief Advocate Initiative to help bridge the hunger gap in America.

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Introduction: Meals for Millions Project

When Jesus faced a crowd of 5,000 hungry men he told his disciples, “You give them something to eat.” (Mark 6:37). In the United States today we face a crowd of 35 million people who struggle each day to provide enough food to feed their families. Once again, Jesus is telling his disciples—especially United Methodist Men—to give them something to eat.

The Meals for Millions mission project was introduced in 1989 to engage United Methodist Men (UMMen) in the fight against hunger in America. In the beginning Meals for Millions was exclusively a fundraising effort for the packaging and transportation of salvaged produce through the Society of St. Andrew’s Potato and Produce Project.

In 1998 the United Methodist Men joined with the Society of St. Andrew to launch the Hunger Relief Advocate (HRA) Initiative as the primary national hunger relief ministry of United Methodist Men. The HRA Initiative was developed for UMMen to provide leadership in mobilizing the United Methodist Church to meet the needs of America’s hungry. It is funded by UMMen through their Meals for Millions contributions.

This web site is designed to help UMMen understand the Meals for Millions mission project and to provide resources to introduce Meals for Millions to their men's group.

Hunger

Hunger continues to be a pervasive problem in the United States. About 35 million Americans do not always get enough to eat... and about half of them are children. At the same time, there is an incredible amount of waste in our country's food industry. We throw away or plow under billions and billions pounds of food each year! The fact is that here is more than enough food left to waste in America to feed every hungry person in our country.

Meals for Millions enables United Methodist Men to strike a major blow against hunger in America by uniting with the Society of St. Andrew in a dramatic way. Through this partnership United Methodist Men are helping to eliminate food waste by re-directing salvaged food to the nation's needy.