News & Updates | Posted Monday, October 14, 2013
As original posted on Holli Carey Long’s blog, Joy is the Grace, 10/7/2013 http://www.hollilong.com/2013/10/07/a-new-generation-walks/ This weekend, I walked in my first CROP Hunger Walk. It was their first walk, too. (Well, “walk” is a loose term here. They ran. And strolled. There wasn’t much walking on their part, really.) But it wasn’t his first walk. My husband is a CROP …
News & Updates | Posted Saturday, June 8, 2013
My first meeting with volunteers after starting with CWS eleven years ago was a post-Walk celebration for the Southwick/Granville CROP Hunger Walk at the Roma Restaurant in Southwick. I was a bit nervous, but so warmly welcomed by co-coordinators Clayton Cigal, Sr. and Carolyn Mills – who was stepping down after many years and to whom we were presenting a …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, October 10, 2011
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – For the past 15 years, 67-year-old Marilyn Pisa has spent her Labor Day morning walking 4.5 miles through the neighborhoods of Valencia and Newhall, Calif., to support her local CROP Hunger Walk, one of some 1,500 events held annually nationwide and deemed the oldest hunger walks in America. CROP Hunger Walk, sponsored by global humanitarian agency …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, August 9, 2011
GRAN CHACO REGION, Paraguay — In the vast, dry Chaco region of South America where water and prosperity are scarce, indigenous women of the Paraguayan Chaco are now growing abundant vegetables by burying handmade clay pots in their gardens to help capture, retain and utilize the little rain that does fall. The simple and ingenious technology is part of humanitarian …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, April 6, 2011
In the midst of gripping poverty, Cruz Rivas Williams sees great potential right under his feet. “The greatest gift God has given us is the water and the land,” says Williams. Williams knows something about the gifts of water and land – he trains local farmers in sustainable farming techniques in the Nazaret 1 training center in the Rio Coco …
#CWSGivingDay Webinar Series Check out our recorded webinars from April, to learn more about our work across the United States and around the world.Addressing America’s Housing CrisisCWS regional directors from across the United States discussed solutions for the supportive housing crisis affecting our communities. Recorded on April 10, 2024Disaster Response in the United States: Rebuilding Hope TogetherDiscover how CWS’s disaster …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, November 3, 2023
Ann Arbor, MI—Earlier this month, Church World Service as part of its effort to celebrate legacy congregations across the nation for their commitment to humanitarian causes, honored Bethlehem United Church of Christ in Ann Arbor. For nearly fifty years, Bethlehem UCC and its congregants have dedicated themselves to aiding CWS in providing sustainable responses to poverty and life-saving disaster response …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Our friend PCUSA pastor and hymn writer the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a new hymn, “There Came a Time in Egypt” to build support in helping the migrants in the USA: There Came a Time In Egypt A new hymn written by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette when she was serving as the August 12-19, 2023 chaplain in the Presbyterian …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2023
If you take a trip to Burundi or Bosnia, there’s a chance you may spot a couple of CWS CROP Hunger Walk t-shirts floating around. This is thanks to Beth Bauman, one of our CROP Walk volunteers and world travelers who has brought these t-shirts to hand out to people in need while on her trips. Beth’s kindness and generosity …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, July 8, 2020
“CWS has been so great. As a walker in a CROP Hunger Walk, I had some idea of what CWS does. In general, I always tend to think of it has happening in remote areas of the globe…to that impact happening locally, I am so thankful to have walked in multiple CROP Walks and that CWS comes through wherever the …