When leaders of all the families of U.S. Christianity first gathered as Christian Churches Together in 2007, they discovered strong consensus that God is calling our churches and nation to strengthen efforts to address the scandal of widespread poverty in the United States and around the world. They stressed the deep connection between the gospel of God’s love for all people in Jesus Christ and economic justice for people struggling with hunger and poverty. Again in 2014, CCT convened to talk about the persistence of poverty and the Christian response. Together they resolved to do the following:

• Encourage Christian communions, denominations, and organizations to promote realistic and ambitious goals for ending poverty in our country and worldwide – perhaps joining the world community in working to end extreme poverty and hunger by 2030 and helping to make hunger and poverty a priority for the U.S. government by 2017

• Encourage Christian leaders to join together in asking all presidential candidates in 2015-2016 to make video statements about how they propose to provide help and opportunity to hungry and poor people in our country and around the world…