ALPHARETTA, Ga. – During Send Relief’s presentation to the Southern Baptist Convention last month, Paul Chitwood and Kevin Ezell highlighted Global Hunger Sunday, which will take place on August 24 this year.
“We aren’t seeing much in the news about it, but the reality is, around the world, we are seeing a greater hunger crisis than we’ve seen in more than four decades,” said International Mission Board (IMB) president Chitwood. “Wars, natural disasters, all of the events that are unfolding around the world are leaving desperate people in desperate situations, and hunger is a part of the desperation that so many feel.”
One of the ways that Southern Baptists have partnered together historically has been through Global Hunger Relief (GHR), which was established in 1978 as the World Hunger Fund…