One Day to Feed the World

Your One Day Transforms Their Every Day

There's a number that should stop us cold.

350 million.

That's how many people Convoy of Hope has served since 1994. Over 350 million lives touched by the generosity of ordinary people who decided to do something. And yet, hunger isn't solved. The need is still massive. The table is still not set for hundreds of millions of people around the world. This Sunday, we had the honor of welcoming Phil McMillan to our church. Phil serves with Convoy of Hope, one of the most trusted and effective humanitarian organizations in the world, and he brought a message that was a challenge. A call. Maybe even a confrontation, in the best possible way.

Who Is Convoy of Hope?

Convoy of Hope is a faith-based humanitarian organization that has been feeding the world since 1994. They started small. And now, three decades later, they have served over 350 million people across more than 130 countries through children's feeding programs, disaster relief, agricultural training, and women's empowerment initiatives.

What Phil Brought to Us

Phil opened in Genesis 1, and at first you might wonder what a creation account has to do with global hunger…
God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth." Then he blessed them and told them to be fruitful, to multiply, and to fill the earth.

That blessing was never just personal. It was never just about having a good life or a full table of your own. It was a commission. Fruitfulness, multiplication, dominion. These are words about responsibility. They're about what we do with what God has put in our hands.

He moved to John 15, where Jesus says, "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." Fruitfulness isn't optional for someone connected to Jesus. It's what happens when you're truly abiding. And that fruit doesn't stay on the branch. It feeds people.

Then he brought it home to Matthew 25, where Jesus paints this picture of the final judgment and says something stunning. When the Son of Man comes in his glory, he separates the nations. And to those on his right, he says, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me."

And the people are amazed. "Lord, when did we do this?" And Jesus answers, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."

This is the heartbeat of the whole message. What we do for the hungry, we do for Jesus. What we withhold from the hungry, we withhold from him.

So What Is One Day?

One Day to Feed the World is Convoy of Hope's invitation to churches across the country to do make a difference. The ask is simple: give the equivalent of one day's wages to help feed people in need around the world.

Not a month's salary. Not a dramatic sacrifice that reshapes your budget for a year. One day. The amount you'd earn between Monday morning and quitting time. For most of us, that number feels ordinary. But gathered together across a church family, it becomes extraordinary. It becomes meals for children who would otherwise have none. It becomes hope for a mother trying to feed her family. It becomes the kind of fruit that only grows when you're connected to the vine and willing to give it away.

Phil's four points from the message frame it well. Be fruitful. Multiply. Subdue the earth. Have dominion. Each one is an invitation to stop treating our resources as something to protect and start treating them as something to deploy.

How We're Participating as a Church

We've committed to One Day together. We're asking every person in our congregation to calculate one day of their wages and give it. Whatever that looks like for you! Whatever that number is. The point isn't the amount. The point is the posture: that we would be a church that looks outward, that remembers those without, and that refuses to sit still when we know we can do something!

It's Not Too Late

If you weren't there Sunday, or if you heard the message and haven't given yet, please don't let the moment pass. This is one of those things you'll be glad you did.

Give your One Day right here: wordoflifeag.org/one-day

Every dollar goes directly through Convoy of Hope to feed people in real need in real places around the world. Your one ordinary day becomes their extraordinary one.

That's fruitfulness. That's dominion. That's what we were made for!