Church World Service Celebrates Bethlehem United Church of Christ for its Lasting Commitment to Humanitarian Efforts

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 …

There Came a Time in Egypt

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 …

Beth’s Impact from Danville to Abroad

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 …

When a pandemic and flooding both struck, you were there in Michigan

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 …

Ending local hunger, one meal at a time

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.  …

40 years of ending hunger in Erie County

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 …

His Donation Took My Breath Away

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 …

World Water Day and You

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 …

Seeing lives changed in Vietnam

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 …

The fight to end hunger: giving it the new, and old, college try

News & Updates | Posted Monday, March 18, 2013

PHOENIX, Ariz/SPRINGFIELD, Ohio/STORRS, Conn. – CROP Hunger Walks have been called the “granddaddy of charity walks.” At age 97, Lester Dray well may be the granddaddy of walkers. When the Litchfield Park, Ariz. retiree participated in his area’s Feb. 24 West Valley CROP Hunger Walk – his 21st walk since the 1980s – Dray says it signaled his own baton-passing …