Our History  
 
Megan is from Dugger, a small town in southwestern Indiana. She was fortunate to grow up around her extended family as they all live in town. She enjoyed sports and hanging out with friends in high school. When she was in junior high, God started to do some work in her life when she started asking questions about her existence and purpose in her life. She read a very influential book about a missionary to Southeast Asia and it started her thinking of being a missionary. Around that time in her life, a very personable pastor came to her church and challenged her on what role God will play in her life and what it means to be a follower of Christ. She started to realize then that a relationship with God is not just Sunday morning church attendance.

After high school, Megan attended Indiana University and studied kinesiology. During spring break of her sophomore year, she took a vision trip to Turkey with a campus ministry to meet up with missionaries from IU. This trip further ignited a passion in her life to see how God could use her overseas. She came back and was involved in campus ministry for the next two years before graduating.

I was raised in north central Indiana in Wabash, Indiana. Although I was raised in a Christian home, church was not a large part of my life. My view of God was that He was a distant being, detached from His creation, certainly not a personal God longing for a relationship with His creation. While I was in high school I remember trying to satisfy my life in every way possible. The more avenues I seemed to try, the more elusive the happiness was. This was very perplexing to me as I tried hopelessly to fill a void in my life that I only barely acknowledged existed.

After graduating, I went to Indiana University to study business. During the first three weeks of school, I met with a leader of a campus ministry who invited me to a weekly meeting they had on campus. Having nothing else to do, I went. People there had something different about their lives. (Seriously, you have to wonder when people are singing songs in a lecture hall at nine o'clock at night!) Intrigued, I decided to go to a fall retreat. During a night of praise and worship, I realized that my life was not what it was supposed to be because I was putting myself in the center of my life. That night, dethroned myself and put Jesus at the center of my life.

To say that my life changed is the only way to describe it. Everyone around me noticed the changes in my life. I joined a bible study through the campus ministry and eventually led one every semester. During my sophomore year, I decided, with a friend of mine, to sign up for the vision trip to Turkey. While on the trip, I was overwhelmed God's passion for all people to know Him, every culture and every nation. I remember having a hard time studying after I came back that spring. This is also where I got to know Megan.

Megan and I started dating the winter after the trip to Turkey. I fell head over heels for Megan and there wasn't a chance that I would do anything but marry her after graduation. We married the summer after our graduation and moved to Indianapolis.

Something that changed in our lives after college was we started seeing in the bible that God has a special place for the poor and neglected. Some theologians have even said He is biased toward the poor. We as a couple are committed to seeing God work in the greatest way through our lives and want to align ourselves with the vision God has for the poor. We started thinking of how we could practice what we believe in a meaningful way. I'm a business major and that was a challenge for me to see how someone with an understanding of commerce and finance could serve others. Megan's degree and education was a bit more commonplace to see how she could be used but the question was then where.

Before Megan graduated from her master's program in December of 2004, we started researching organizations where we could serve the poor using the gifts and skills that we've been given. Throughout the next eight months and much deliberation, we decided Food for the Hungry was the right fit for us and our vision for our ministry. I would be able to minister to business owners and entrepreneurs by helping them run a more profitable business.

We, through Food for the Hungry, seek to partner with churches, leaders and families to end physical and spiritual hunger.