Reducing Poverty
Tell Us Your Story
The Reducing Poverty Resource Team is seeking stories of how Ohio Conference congregations are working to reduce poverty in their areas. Has your congregation developed a program aimed at reducing poverty? Is your congregation working with other local congregations to achieve that goal? We are interested in hearing from you.
Reducing Poverty Resources
The Ohio Conference Reducing Poverty Resource Team has created four resources for congregations. These documents provide specific details on poverty-related initiatives:
- How to create an increased focus on local poverty
- How to create a church bulletin board on poverty
- How to create a mentoring program
- How to adopt a school
Additional resources for download
- Reducing Poverty Resolution (Adopted at the 2008 Annual Conference Assembly)
- Reducing Poverty Workshop Agenda 2013
- Walking with the Poor – Diagrams PDF
- The Line – Poverty In America PDF
- 9 Ways to Get Involved in Poverty Solutions
Websites about Poverty
- Food Banks See Drop In Donations: NPR
- Food insecurity in America PDF, from a report conducted by the USDA (data and statistics):
- United States Census Website Information Information about poverty on a national level, by state, individual vs. household, etc., as well as graphs:
- Snapshot of Poverty in the United States: NPR
- Rates of Poverty in Ohio:
- Poverty in America, a series by National Public Radio (including video and statistics):
Recommended Books
- The Hole in our Gospel by Richard Sterns
- When Helping Hurts by Steve Cobett and Brian Fikkert
- Who is my Neighbor? by Steve Moore
- Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ron Sider