How can I become a Food for the Hungry Advocate?
You can contact us by first filling out our Advocate inquiry form. Or, you can fill out an application online. Once you complete the application or inquiry form, more information will be sent to you and an FH representative will contact you.
Advocate inquiry form
Application
How much of a time commitment is required to be an Advocate?
Display Advocates place four to six displays a year; all other Advocates seek at least four opportunities per year to speak in front of a church, small group or organization. All Advocates participate in "Food for the Hungry Sunday" every October, and visit with a Regional Manager by phone once a month.
Is there a position open in my community?
Yes, Advocates serve in their own community, advocating among the churches, organizations and people they know.
Why are FH Advocates important?
Food for the Hungry Advocates are vital to the struggle against world poverty because they mobilize other people to get involved. Advocates raise awareness and make an impact at the grassroots level in cities all across America.
How do Advocates get others involved in the fight against poverty?
There are many ways to advocate. Here are 50 ideas:
- Host a movie night. Invite your friends to watch a movie that focuses on global issues such as poverty, hunger or injustice. Encourage a group discussion after the movie, and present child sponsorship as a way for them to get involved. This could be a strictly educational evening or you could charge a "fee" that would go toward a specific project. Possible movies: Ghosts of Rwanda, Hotel Rwanda, Soldier Child or Sometimes in April.
- Have a party! Ask a neighborhood restaurant to donate appetizers or desserts. You may charge your guests $15 $20 or $50, or ask for donations and let them know that all proceeds go to a country or project of your choice. You could also present child sponsorship. See www.HostADinner.com for more ideas.
- Have a potluck dinner with foreign foods and lead a discussion about needs around the world.
Organize an international potluck dinner. Encourage your friends to prepare typical dishes from other cultures or countries. Then lead a discussion about needs around the world.
- Take your church’s Missions Committee chairman or pastor out to lunch and ask permission to make a presentation about FH at the next Missions Committee meeting.
- Meet with small groups in your church and share with them the mission and vision of Food for the Hungry.
- Present FH to your own small group.
- Secure a presentation at a Rotary, Kiwanis, or Lion’s Club.
- Talk about the problem of HIV/AIDS to the college group at your church.
- Promote Go ED., Short-Term Team or Internships to your local college campus ministries.
- Present the work of FH at a friend’s church.
- Have your friends over for dinner and talk about the FH’s ministry.
- Place a display in your favorite restaurant.
- Place a display in your church.
- Place a display in your local bookstore.
- Place a display in your physician’s office or dentist’s office.
- Read a book on world poverty to keep yourself updated on this important global issue.
- Make a list of people you know who have a heart for missions and see if they are interested in hearing about what FH is doing overseas.
- When a calamity or disaster strikes, contact your missions pastor and let him know how FH is responding to meet the needs of the people in the affected areas.
- Make yourself available to local Christian schools for a chapel presentation.
- Join or promote an FH event, such as the 2006 Hunger Ride or annual Golf Marathon. Check out the FH Web site regularly for upcoming events.
- Hold an event at a bookstore or library near you.
- Join efforts with another volunteer to host an event.
- Recruit a friend to advocate with you.
- Announce your role as an FH Advocate in your Christmas letter and challenge your friends and family to get involved.
- Send an e-mail broadcast to friends and don’t forget to include a link to FH Web site.
- Show an FH DVD or PowerPoint to a friend or group.
- Share the new FH magazine, 6:8, with friends and ask each of them to consider sponsoring a child.
- Speak in your Sunday School class.
- Speak in a friend’s Sunday School class.
- Identify events such as missions conferences or ministry fairs in your community. Talk with leaders about setting up a booth or a table to promote FH.
- Challenge the children’s Sunday School classes at your church to give their missions money towards sponsoring a child.
- Set up a table at a local Christian school or campus during a missions week.
- Talk with people one-on-one over coffee or lunch about the ministry of child sponsorship.
- Find out of if there is a course on Perspectives on the World Christian Movement being offered in your city. Contact the hosting church and find out if you can make a 10-minute presentation about the work of Food for the Hungry around the world.
- Host a FH Sunday at your church.
- Make a presentation at a youth group. OK
- Make a presentation to your church’s children’s ministry.
- Introduce "Answer the Call," a youth weekend event, to your church. (Ask your Regional Manager for a copy of the manual.)
- Have a group over to your house and discuss the problem of HIV/AIDS, ask your Regional Manager for resources. Invite people to sponsor children who are affected by HIV AIDS.
- Ask your book group to consider reading a book about poverty and discuss it together.
- Ask your missions pastor if you can have a FH speaker at your church’s next mission conference.
- Ask a group of homeschoolers to take on a project to increase awareness of poverty.
- Present to a group of homeschoolers.
- Encourage a group from your church to go on a short-term mission trip with FH.
- Lead a team with FH!
- Join a short-term team trip and tell your stories when you return.
- Put an ad in your local newspaper letting everyone know you are an Advocate.
- E-mail the Volunteer Advocate Newsletter to five friends.
- Have a block party, inviting neighbors to hear about the problem of poverty around the world, and encourage them to find ways to get involved.
- Present at a friend’s small group.
