CWS Elects Diverse Board to Advance Agency Vision

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2012

CWS members unanimously elected a new Board of Directors at the humanitarian agency’s October 2012 Annual Members Meeting. Elections to the smaller, non-representative board were drawn from a broad variety of professional backgrounds, including foundations, development agencies, corporations and advocacy organizations. For more than 65 years, the board of Church World Service has been composed of representatives from its member …

Hurricane Sandy Southern Ohio event: Volunteers gather to ship supplies for survivors

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2012

For the latest updates, visit our Hurricane Sandy emergency information page. Eaton, Ohio – In the struggling aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, with a fresh Northeaster headed for the same affected coastal areas later this week, humanitarian agency Church World Service and supporters around the nation are continuing to assist survivors with collections, shipments and distribution of emergency kits, blankets and …

CWS remembers champion of the poor

News & Updates | Posted Sunday, October 21, 2012

George McGovern was a friend to humanitarian agency Church World Service and to anyone concerned about the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the world. As the one-time United Nations Ambassador to the Hungry, Senator McGovern had always made battling hunger a top concern, even when the political winds did not favor that fight as a topical concern. But, unfortunately, …

CWS urges Americans to join actions for World Food Day

News & Updates | Posted Thursday, September 20, 2012

New York, N.Y. — Looking toward World Food Day – Tuesday, October 16 – humanitarian agency Church World Service has called for Americans to make the fight to end hunger a regular part of their daily diets, citing the one in seven people who are hungry in the world, a looming food crisis and, in the U.S., the 1 in 6 people …

Growing food and protecting the land

News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Even in the face of the grinding poverty that is a fact of life for indigenous people living in climate-challenged regions of northern Nicaragua, some families are not just using new techniques to grow bigger and better crops, but also working to generate income by selling their surplus produce. That was the message from a delegation from Nicaraguan organization Christian …

CWS Emergency Appeal: 2012 Summer Storms and Wildfires

News & Updates | Posted Monday, July 9, 2012

Appeal #:627-U CWS Appeal Goal: $30,000 Situation In recent weeks, communities across the United States have been affected by diverse disasters, including severe storms, wildfires and a tropical depression. This appeal summarizes several disasters and describes the CWS response. Minnesota: Severe storms struck the Duluth area in late June, dumping as much as 10 inches of rain in some areas …

CWS helps meet ongoing needs of Joplin tornado survivors

News & Updates | Posted Friday, June 15, 2012

Church World Service, a global humanitarian organization, has awarded a grant of $5,000 to the Joplin Long-Term Recovery Committee to assist in meeting the needs of tornado survivors. The Joplin Long Term Recovery Committee is a collaborative group of more than 30 nonprofit and faith-based organizations working to help people affected by the May 22, 2011, tornado in Joplin, Mo. …

Church World Service CEO John McCullough receives United Methodist Church Council of Bishops ecumenical award

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Editors: Downloadable high-res photo of Rev. McCullough. TAMPA, Fla. – The Rev. John L. McCullough, executive director and chief executive officer of humanitarian agency Church World Service, was honored Tuesday evening (May 1) by his denomination the United Methodist Church for outstanding global ecumenical leadership. A tribute bestowed every four years, McCullough received the Council of Bishops Ecumenical Award for …

Micronutrient supplements helping overcome child malnutrition, but more needed for long-term food security

News & Updates | Posted Friday, March 30, 2012

KINANGO DISTRICT, Kenya — In the dry and poor east Kenya district of Kinango, humanitarian worker Sammy Mutua watched and listened as mothers recounted how their small children, suffering from malnutrition, had been listless and had little appetite, but now were eating heartily after only one month of daily multi-micronutrient powder supplements (MNPs) sprinkled in their porridge. Mutua, staff member …

Zion UCC promotes Blankets+ in the Advent-Christmas season

News & Updates | Posted Friday, January 27, 2012

“Zion U.C.C. in Henderson, Ky, schedules the Church World Service Blankets+ appeal in the Advent-Christmas season.  We use posters to announce the effort and publish it with a list of mission projects.  We have a CWS blanket displayed and used in our youth and children’s sermon during worship.  During the presentation, which frankly is just as much for the adults …