Canastota: CROP Hunger Walk — helping end hunger locally and globally

Submitted by Doug Brushell

(Canastota, NY) The Canastota Area Association of Churches will hold its CROP Hunger Walk on Sunday October 18, 2009.

Organized locally, the Canastota CROP Hunger Walk has set a goal of 200 Walkers and hopes to raise $10,000 to help stop hunger and poverty here in our community and around the world, through self-help initiatives. Twenty-five percent of the funds raised here in Canastota will go to the The Opportunity Shop and The Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen of Canastota…

Last year, 135 Walkers raised more than $6,000 in the CROP Hunger Walk.

This year Canastota and some 2,000 cities and towns nationwide are joining together in interfaith community CROP Hunger Walks around the theme “We walk because they walk.” Many of the CROP Walkers will be wearing “We walk because they walk” T-shirts, proclaiming their solidarity with the millions of neighbors around the world who have to walk to live — as well as with the millions served by local food pantries, food banks, and meal sites here in the U.S. These local ministries share in the funds raised by CROP Hunger Walks.

CROP Hunger Walks continue to play a big role in the continuing saga of U.S. Gulf Coast rebuilding. More than two years after Hurricane Katrina, Church World Service is working to get hundreds of families out of FEMA trailers and into new or repaired homes.

For more information about the Canastota CROP Hunger Walk, contact Doug Brushell at (315) 697-2866 or Email: doug@believers-chapel.com.

CROP means Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.

The Association of Churches includes: Believers’ Chapel, Hope Christian Fellowship, First Baptist Church, Saint Agatha’s, Canastota United Church, Trinity Episcopal, Whitelaw Presbyterian, Oneida Lake Congregational, Church of the Nazarene.

Canastota: CROP Hunger Walk — helping end hunger locally and globally

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