2. POVERTY IN THE USA

3. POVERTY IS EVERYWHERE…

4. STARVATION, THIRST, AND DISEASE ROAM FREE…

5. THERE MUST BE SOME WAY TO HELP…

6. …BUT HOW?

7. ORGANIZATIONS EVERYWHERE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY IN AMERICA. CCHD Poverty USA Catholic Charities

8. WE CAN HELP TOO.

9. WITH THE TWO FEET OF LOVE… Changing public policy Giving necessary items(food, clothes, etc.)

10. …THE SEVEN THEMES OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING…

11. …AND OUR OWN CATHOLIC FAITH… “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (Ps 82:3-4) “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3:17-18)

12. WE CAN STOP POVERTY IN ITS TRACKS

13. “Poverty calls us to sow hope…. Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.” -Pope Francis