CROP Walk 2012
Crop Hunger Walk logo
Sunday, October 07, 1:00pm
CROP (Communities Responding To Overcome
Poverty) Walk is a community-wide event sponsored by Church World
Service and organized by local congregations to raise funds to end
hunger at home and around the world.
We will be meeting in the Chapel parking lot at 1:00pm and car pooling to the Coomes Center in Abingdon. The walk will begin at 2:00pm.
CROP Walk is a 5 mile walk
through the town of Abingdon to support this effort. Hungry people in
developing countries typically walk as much as 6 miles a day to get
food, water and fuel, and to take their goods to market. We walk to be
in solidarity with their struggle for existence.
75% of our walk’s
proceeds support Church World Service which works in over 80 countries,
including the U.S., to provide food, medical care, refugee assistance
and education and 25% will stay in our community, going to the Stone
Soup Food Pantry, which serves approximately 800 families per month.
Walkers may ask for pledges from friends and family and bring donations
the day of the walk or turn it in later at Abingdon United Methodist
(628-2321) or at St. John Lutheran (628-6215) as late as December 1st.
Checks should be made out to CWS/CROP.
Each walker should also bring 1 or 2 cans of food the day of the walk.
There will be water stops along the route, and a van and nurse will travel the route for anyone needing help.
T-shirts go to the first 125 walkers who collect pledges of $40 or more.
If you have any questions, please contact Mary K Briggs (Spiritual
Life, mkbriggs@ehc.edu) or Shai Cullop (Appalachian Center,
scullop@ehc.edu).
Donation envelopes are available in either office.
This event is sponsored by Campus Christian Fellowship
