Feed the Hunger, Inc. formerly New Directions International/ NDI
Feed the Hunger is a Christian ministry delivering hope and a future to malnourished children around the world who are vulnerable to starvation by utilizing volunteers to pack life-saving meals, which we distribute along with culturally appropriate Bibles.
Feed the Hunger, Inc.
Website: www.feedthehunger.org
Email: info@feedthehunger.org
CEO/President: Joseph Williams
Chairman: Tony Holt
Founder: Dr. J.L. Williams
We have a particular emphasis on connecting with Christian leaders seeking to fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20). Feed the Hunger equips these leaders to feed spiritual hunger with tools like Bibles, bicycles, and micro-enterprise projects. Physical hunger is met through the provision of nutritious food, clean water, and emergency aid and relief. We seek to meet these needs in three target audiences: (1) at-risk children in America and overseas, (2) those in crisis situations, such as refugees and victims of natural disasters, and (3) ethnic groups that are just beginning to be reached with the message of Jesus.
Feed the Hunger uses the following to express its Mission Statement:
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger in the poor and needy.
Sector: Foreign Missions
Asset utilization rating 72 of 1010 12 of 120
98% 94% 100% 100% 100% 100%
7% 17% 4% 35% 38% 21%
20.37 4.86 3.03 1.98 4.12 3.78
0% 1% 2% 0% 36% 51%
Cash $285,890 $205,300 $254,968 $220,356 $197,114
Receivables, inventories, prepaids $42,126 $47,321 $44,982 $51,289 $32,454
Short-term investments $11,085 $0 $0 $0 $0
Other long-term assets $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
Total long-term assets $252,270 $270,379 $272,294 $261,134 $230,328
Total assets $591,371 $523,000 $572,244 $532,779 $459,896
Payables and accrued expenses $65,261 $64,301 $51,436 $52,557 $50,183
Other current liabilities $4,485 $19,181 $99,954 $13,393 $10,542
Total current liabilities $69,746 $83,482 $151,390 $65,950 $60,725
Debt $3,821 $11,508 $0 $193,622 $234,212
Other long-term liabilities $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
Total long-term liabilities $3,821 $11,508 $0 $193,622 $234,212
Total liabilities $73,567 $94,990 $151,390 $259,572 $294,937
Without donor restrictions $398,542 $258,352 $303,243 $180,369 $112,998
With donor restrictions $119,262 $169,658 $117,611 $92,838 $56,961
Net assets $517,804 $428,010 $420,854 $273,207 $164,959
Program service revenue $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
Investment income $631 $0 $0 $0 $0
Other revenue $117,969 $0 $2,523 ($253) $0
Total other revenue $118,600 $0 $2,523 ($253) $0
Surplus (deficit) $89,794 $18,026 $147,647 $103,248 $34,229
Total change in net assets $89,794 $18,026 $147,647 $103,248 $34,229
Joseph Williams Chief Execut $104,367
For many years, Feed the Hunger went by the name of New Directions Ministries and New Directions International. It was founded in 1968 by Dr. J.L. Williams and his wife, Patt. During the early years, the ministry was an interracial singing group comprised of high school and college students. They were pioneers in using contemporary Christian music to share their faith in churches and anywhere they could find an audience. Traveling on weekends during the school year and throughout the vacation months, they ended each summer with a cross-cultural mission trip.
Those intense and varied experiences of discipleship, practical evangelism, and mission outreach became the training ground for many young men and women who went on to actively minister in other capacities. Over time, the focus of Feed the Hunger shifted from American teenagers and college students to Christian leaders in the Third World. Feed the Hunger equips these leaders with spiritual and physical tools to reach their own people for Christ. Most recently, Feed the Hunger has begun outreach in the U.S. to feed the spiritual and physical hunger in needy communities.
About J.L. Williams:
J.L. Williams was reared in a spiritually enriched family by his parents, Clarence and Edith Crouse Williams. It was a heritage full of faith and serving others, with a heavy emphasis on overseas missions.
He graduated pre-med from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and then received his Master of Divinity degree in comparative world religions from Duke Divinity School. He later earned a Doctor of Ministry degree in contemporary counter-Christian cults from Luther Rice Seminary.
Through the YMCA in Burlington, NC, J.L. and his wife, Patt, founded The New Directions singing group in August 1968. This group was interracial, contemporary, and inter-denominational, ministering throughout the US and the Caribbean from 1968 to the mid-1980s. He then transitioned to developing partnerships with indigenous leaders overseas, mainly in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
J.L.'s passion was to pour himself into those cross-cultural partnerships, equipping strategic Christian leaders with practical and spiritual tools to reach the unreached for Christ. Whether it was preaching, teaching, writing, mentoring, agricultural projects, self-support initiatives, helping orphanages, etc., he was absolutely relentless in serving Christ by serving others.
J.L. died on December 28, 2016, at Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, NC, leaving Patt, their 4 married children, and 12 grandchildren. Patt continues his legacy by working with their son, Joseph, through Feed the Hunger, as he shares the same vision as his dad: to help meet the spiritual and physical hunger of those in greatest need, locally and globally.
You can impact the lives of the hungry here in America and around the world by participating in food packing events called Packathons (everyone is welcome to participate!), going on a domestic or overseas mission trip, and investing resources.