Devita Parnell is Young Baptist Ecosystem Manager of the Cooperate Baptist Fellowship. She is co-organizer of Advocacy in Action for leaders within Cooperative Baptist Fellowship partner congregations. Parnell formerly served as missional resources specialist at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. She is a member and deacon at First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia, an alumni board member of McAfee School of Theology, and a member of Baptist Women in Ministry. Parnell is an advocate for children and youth as justice leaders and mother of Tyler and Julia. She is an ordained Baptist minister. She is Cooperative Baptist.
To end hunger and poverty in the United States by 2030, our country needs to support a budget that improves the lives of men, women, and children.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration and Congress are proposing dramatic cuts to programs that promote economic opportunity or provide food...
To end hunger and poverty in the United States by 2030, our country needs to support a budget that improves the lives of men, women, and children.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration and Congress are proposing dramatic cuts to programs that promote economic opportunity or provide food...
The Trump administration and Congress are proposing cuts that would hit the African-American community particularly hard.
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...
A set of how-to sheets for carrying out advocacy and fact sheets on the current issues Bread for the World is working on.
For new and current Bread grassroots hunger activists.
Ideal as a starter toolkit for new Bread activists or as a set of updates for current activists.
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These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
Unnecessarily long prison sentences, combined with the lack of rehabilitative programs for people in prison, exacerbate hunger, poverty, and existing inequalities.
Overly harsh mandatory minimum prison sentences have contributed to the rapid increase of our country’s prison population. The...