Park Hill Gears up for the 2013 CROP Hunger Walk on Oct. 20
By Pauline Miles, CROP Hunger Walk Co-Chair
On Sunday, October 20, the 26th Annual Park Hill CROP Hunger Walk will once again bring walkers together from our community in support of the work of Church World Service (CWS) and the GPHC Food Pantry. Put October 20th on your calendar, and read the following update on what the CROP Walk is and what the CWS has been doing in our country and around the world.
Since 1946, CWS has provided interfaith opportunities through local community CROP (Communities Reaching out to People) Hunger Walks to respond to the needs of the world’s most vulnerable people. Each year, 75 percent of the funds raised by CROP Hunger Walks enable CWS to provide disaster relief, emergency food supplies, refugee settlement and self-help economic development to more than 80 countries worldwide.
Last summer, due to the temporary suspension of the GPHC Food Pantry for renovations of the facility, 25 percent of the funds raised by the CROP Hunger Walk were shared equally by two Denver agencies – Denver Urban Ministries and Senior Support Services. This year, 25 percent of the proceeds will once again be donated to the GPHC Food Pantry to provide emergency support for families in need living in the Park Hill community.
The Park Hill CROP Hunger Walk, one of 21 hunger walks held within Colorado, once again accepts the challenge of raising funds to provide nutritious food for the hungry people here in our local neighborhood and around the world. When the 26th CROP Hunger Walk is held on October 20th this year, the walkers will meet at Park Hill United Methodist Church’s Fellowship Hall at 12:30 pm to turn in their CROP Walk donations, enjoy a light lunch and begin the CROP Hunger Walk along Montview Boulevard at 1:30pm.
We invite you to join us in walking in the Park Hill CROP Hunger Walk on October 20th! You will see CROP signs begin to appear in the Park Hill neighborhood – in store windows, on street corners and on the lawns of some members of PHUMC. If you are unable to participate in person, please consider making an online donation by signing on at cropwalkonline.org.
All walkers are being asked to bring a few nonperishable items such likes cans of food, vegetables or fruit, boxes of spaghetti, or jars tomato sauce as a food pantry contribution. These items will be used in future distributions to needy individuals or families who visit the GPHC Food Pantry.
Pauline Miles can be reached at pubrelatpm@aol.com or call PHUMC at 303-322-1867.