News & Updates | Posted Saturday, October 19, 2013
This is the fourth year a group of terrific, socially conscious kids (ages 14-18) have created educational skits and activities to present to religious school children throughout the greater Nashua, New Hampshire area. Their idea is simple: to both teach elementary school age children about world poverty and hunger, and to inspire them to put their hearts and soles into …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2013
As originally posted on Bread for the World’s Bread Blog: http://blog.bread.org/2013/04/educate-and-advocate-portlands-crop-walk.html Ending hunger takes a village. Churches, non-profits, and faithful individuals respond to hunger in different ways. Holistic approaches to fighting hunger acknowledge immediate need while also advocating for changes to policies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. CROP Hunger Walks, community-wide events sponsored by CWS and …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, November 4, 2011
When participants in the CWS-sponsored CROP Hunger Walk in Arlington, Va. stepped off from Arlington Forest United Methodist Church last month, among the walkers was the head of the federal bureau charged with leading the effort to implement President Obama’s global food security initiative. Paul Weisenfeld, who heads USAID’s Bureau for Food Security didn’t just walk, he also spoke to …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Hunger is a moving topic for folks in the Quad-Cities Area. The proof? Roughly 700 walkers from Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Ill., took to the streets on October 2 to help fight hunger in the nation’s only bi-state CROP Hunger Walk. This year marked the 40th year for the Quad Cities CROP Hunger Walk. Ann …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2011
For the members of the Mayfield, N.Y., Central Presbyterian Church and others who had seen a tragedy unfolding for several days, there was no question that their commitment to helping the world’s hungry would continue. Because despite a lightning strike and a resulting fire that destroyed the church building on April 28, Mayfield residents went ahead with a CROP Hunger …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, April 6, 2011
You can excuse any residents of Canyon Lake in central Texas Hill Country for referring to their town’s annual hunger-fighting walk as, “That dam walk.” The description is hardly a pejorative when the route of the walk indeed does take walkers straight across Canyon Lake Dam, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built years ago to reduce flooding of …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2011
A recently resettled refugee family from Darfur, Sudan, braved a cold, pouring rain to participate in last fall’s CROP Hunger Walk in Erie, Pa. The Tiras raised nearly $200 for CWS work to fight hunger in Erie and around the world. “Katie White is the Community Outreach Director of the International Institute of Erie (IIE), which resettled the Tira family …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2025
This blog was written by Katy Keck, a former CWS board member and CROP Hunger Walk participant. From the sunlit dunes of west Michigan to the shuttered pantries of western Kenya, Katy reflects on her journey with Church World Service and the urgent call to end hunger injustice—locally and globally. Photos Courtesy of Katy Keck Walking with Purpose: From West …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Kevin McCoy, Community Engagement Specialist for Fundraising at CWS, has dedicated 25 years to serving others. Through his work with CWS, Kevin has led and attended 300 CROP Hunger Walks, aligning his faith and values with a commitment to walk in solidarity with communities worldwide striving for basic necessities and a better future. Discovering a Calling to Serve Kevin McCoy, …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, October 1, 2024
In September, Jenny Boteler, a UCC Pastor at Union Congregational Church, joined CWS as a participant in the Hike for Hope in Yosemite National Park and shared reflections from the trip and the impact her long-standing partnership with CWS provides for communities around the world. It was 50 years ago that I took my first steps with Church World Service. …