News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Church World Service’s next disaster recovery webinar will be on “Children in Disaster,” and will be live 2 to 3:15 p.m. (U.S. Eastern) Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Learn how you can support this important work with our most vulnerable and also resilient little ones. Presenters will include Kathleen Fry-Miller, Associate Director of Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) of the Church of …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Local disaster long-term recovery leaders who will be guiding their communities through the process of recovering from spring floods in Florida’s panhandle will gather July 23 in Tallahassee and 24 in Milton, Fla., for training in needs assessment, disaster case management, volunteer and construction management, volunteer hosting, and emotional and spiritual care. Church World Service, along with several other national …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, June 26, 2014
Free day-long workshops on community-based long-term recovery from disaster will be held July 9 in Tupelo and 10 in Louisville, Miss. The focus will be on meeting unmet needs of survivors of the severe storms, tornadoes and flooding that struck the state May 28, affecting 2,390 homes, 1,119 of them with major damage or total destruction. More than 5,000 people …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2014
As originally published by The Zero Hunger Challenge, 6/19/2014 http://blog.zerohungerchallenge.org/the-zero-hunger-challenge-why-it-works-and-why-we-should-fight-for-it/ We are winning the fight against hunger and poverty. We are winning it in concrete, measurable ways. Ways most visible in the numbers of young lives saved and communities changed through targeted, sustainable and strategic programs. Global hunger has been reduced by more than 34 percent since 1990, an amazing …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, June 4, 2014
There is a hymn that begins: “It only takes a spark to get a fire going.” Lately, I’ve been thinking of that hymn when I speak to people who want to start a new CROP Hunger Walk in their community. These people, who we always say make our day and week and month, are the joy of every field staff. …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2014
WASHINGTON — Church World Service has joined with other US humanitarian organizations to sign a first-of-its-kind agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development to quicken the pace of the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The agreement was signed Monday (May 19) in Washington by Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID administrator, and Samuel A. Worthington, the president and chief executive officer …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2014
NEW YORK — CWS presented the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with the 2014 CWS Ecumenical Award at the its annual members meeting, April 29-30 in Chicago. The archdiocese was honored for its “significant contributions to the governance of CWS, visionary leadership and for its witness on matters of public policy.” In accepting the award on behalf of the archdiocese, …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2014
CHICAGO – “CWS is about our members, partners, and a myriad of colleagues working together, as institutions and as coalitions, but even more, as people. That is the vision of our faith and our values.” With those words, CWS President and CEO the Rev. John McCullough, described the relationship between CWS and its member communions as representatives from the various …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, March 27, 2014
Around the age of 10 I told my mother I wanted to work for CWS. Seriously, I stared at her and said, “I want to do that when I grow up.” Surely she looked at me and thought “yeah, okay” but little did she know I was called to this work. Was it fate, destiny or pure determination? I honestly …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, February 6, 2014
::Raises Hand:: As I’m drinking a very large cup of coffee and typing this blog entry I’m wondering how many times a day I mention how tired I am. To anyone who knows me, I LOVE sleeping. It may be the best gift in the world. I would rather sleep than shower. Sleep than eat. If I have to wake …