Our Impact

How Your Church Can Celebrate

1. Select a Sunday or weekend in October or November when you will celebrate Bread for the World Sunday.
2. Plan which elements in your worship service will address hunger. Your celebration can be as simple as including prayers for people struggling with hunger during a worship service. Prayers for the day are an ideal opportunity to remember those affected by hunger—and our nation’s decision makers who can change the policies and conditions that allow hunger to persist. Or you may wish to devote your sermon, children's message, and other activities to ending hunger in God's world. Many churches have a “mission moment” before the offering or perhaps there can be a special announcement.
3. Make sure you have the resources you’ll need. Videos, biblical reflections, and responsive prayers are available.
4. As part of your Bread for the World Sunday celebration, you may want to conduct an Offering of Letters—taking time to write brief online letters to members of Congress, urging them to continue our nation’s investments in programs that provide hope and opportunity for people struggling with hunger. Writing online may be the surest way to urge Congress to address nutrition amid the global coronavirus pandemic (Word document) and reform our criminal justice system (Word document)—all critical to ending hunger and poverty in our lifetime.

Video Reflections

• Bread for the World Sunday Reflection by Rev. Eugene Cho, President of Bread for the World
• Prayer and Biblical Reflection by Rev. William H. Lamar IV
• Bread’s Advocacy Summit Reflection by Rev. Ruben Ortiz, Latino Field Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
• Bread’s Advocacy Summit Reflection by Rev. Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Resources in English

• Opening Prayer for Bread for the World Sunday
  This prayer was written by Edith Avila Olea, the policy manager for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. She is a recipient of Bread for the World’s 2019 Rev. Arthur Simon Award for Faithful Service to End Hunger.
• Lament and Hope: A Pan African Devotional Guide
• Biblical Basis for Advocacy
• Daily Prayers for an End to Hunger

Resources in Spanish

• Reflexión del Domingo de Pan para el Mundo
  Esta oración fue escrita por Edith Avila Olea, gerente de políticas de la Coalición de Illinois para los Derechos de los Inmigrantes y Refugiados. Recibió el Premio Rev. Arthur Simon 2019 de Pan para el Mundo por su servicio fiel para terminar el hambre.
• Domingo de Pan Para El Mundo
• Nueve temas bíblicos dan forma a nuestra misión
• Finding Hope, Ending Hunger on Both Sides of the Border: A Latino Devotional
• Latino Devotional Video Reflections:
  Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, GreenFaith
  Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, GreenFaith (Spanish)
  Rev. Lori Tapia, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  Brenda Noriega, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
  Rev. Jeanette Salguero, National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC)
  Rev. Carlos L Malavé, Christian Churches Together in the USA

Additional Resources

• Nutrition and the Coronavirus
• Global Hunger in the Time of COVID-19
• SNAP and the Coronavirus

More About Bread for the World Sunday

The strength of Bread for the World is found in our shared commitment to address the root cause of hunger: poverty, discrimination based on race and gender, unemployment, immigration, mass incarceration, and economic inequality. On Bread for the World Sunday, we recognize and give thanks for the work churches, community groups, and denominations are all doing to remove the obstacles that keep people from sharing in God's abundance. We celebrate the diversity of faith traditions across race, ethnicity, and culture that are working together to end hunger. Moved by God's love in Jesus Christ, we reach out in love to our neighbors—and we help create a better future for all.

If you have any questions or need support, please contact us at publications@bread.org or call 800-822-7323.