#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 …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Each year, CROP Hunger Walks across the United States support neighbors near and far to overcome hunger and poverty. While a majority of funds goes to addressing global hunger, each Walk also chooses local hunger-fighting agencies to support with a grant. Each year, more than 1,500 agencies across the United States receive over $2 million in grants to support their work. …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, October 15, 2015
The chance to walk last week’s 40th anniversary Erie County CROP Hunger Walk with 600 fellow Pennsylvanians was a great privilege for me and my two sisters who were able to join me from Rochester, NY and Chicago, IL. The 5.5 mile walk along the shores of Lake Erie on a sunny, cool fall day was inspiring, and I was …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2015
As we walked in our CROP Hunger Walk on the West Side of Evansville on a cold Indiana day, a man carrying a backpack who appeared to be homeless, asked why we were walking. When told we were walking for hungry people in our community and throughout the world, he reached into his backpack and pulled out a crumpled dollar …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, March 21, 2014
As originally published by Joy is the Grace, March 20, 2014 http://www.hollilong.com/2014/03/20/world-water-day-and-you/ Oh, you know, this Saturday I think I’ll “Hang Out” with Glennon Doyle Melton. Wanna join me? No really, I’m completely serious. I’m going to hang out with Glennon (yes, the Glennon of Momastery) and the really awesome folks over at Church World Service (yes, the CROP Hunger …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, March 25, 2013
Recently I traveled to northern Vietnam with a group of fellow CROP Hunger Walk volunteers to see firsthand how CROP Walk dollars are used. We visited several ethnic minority villages in the far northwestern district of Muong Te, which lies in the “frontier” region of Vietnam bordering China. The CWS staff in Vietnam had to get permission from the government …