Youth and other members of the Church of Peace will participate in the CROP WALK sponsored by Churches United of the Quad Cities. This walk will take place on Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2008.
Each of the walkers from the church will receive donations to contribute to the CROP offering. Most of the funds received will be remitted to Church World Service for international aid to alleviate poverty and hunger. To learn more about Church World Service one can go to their website: http://www.churchworldservice.org/
A portion of the offering will be retained locally to address hunger in the Quad Cities. Since the food pantry at the Church of Peace is part of the Churches United coalition of food pantries it seems only fair that members of this church would participate with others to help raise funds to address hunger.
At a deeper level, the CROP WALK draws attention to the fact that there are low income and hungry people in our hometowns as well as around the world. And that addressing the needs of hungry people requires the efforts of the churches and other members of the civil society. We at the church act as community organizers to draw concerned people together to walk to aid the hungry, and to think and pray together as to why there are so many people in need.
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