Daily Bread Ministries is on a mission to restore hope in San Antonio.
Daily Bread Ministries gives away fresh and healthy food and offers biblical poverty alleviation training to a network of over 100 churches and ministries. This empowers them to effectively tackle poverty by leveraging the provided food and resources to engage and support their local communities.
In August 2019, Rev. Dr. Kenneth Brown and his wife Dr. Claudia Brown were called to serve as Pastors of Converse First Baptist Church. In November of that year, they opened the church’s food pantry, “5 Fishes & 2 Loaves” in partnership with Daily Bread Ministries. They emphasize that their pantry was giving a “hand-up” rather than just a “hand-out.
At the height of the pandemic, Pastor Kenneth and his wife met Dr. Ulpi, a retired school principal who needed assistance to supplement her basic needs.
Dr. Ulpi had established an online satellite Bible school that had received international accreditation. At the invitation of the Browns, Dr. Ulpi began to run this Bible school out of the church and has seen the attendance grow from 3 to 23 students in a short period. This past July, 14 students graduated with various levels of degrees.
Today, Dr. Ulpi continues to operate the Bible school, but she also is sowing back into the ministry of Converse First Baptist Church and those being reached through the food pantry. Dr. Ulpi is using her gift of teaching to run an ESL (English as a second language) course for recipients needing to learn English to find jobs and better navigate life in the US.
“Daily Bread Ministries has been the sole provider to Converse First Baptist Church Food Pantry Ministry. Their provision allowed us to give a “hand – up” to one person who was in need, which in turn has caused there to be a harvest…” – Pastor Kenneth
