Rocky Mountain Regional CROP Walk summary

The letter below comes from Deniese Estrada of Church World Service.

Our partnership with you has resulted in an increase from 40 to 47 CROP Hunger Walks this past year. As a participating and supporting denomination of Church World Service, thank you!

CROP stands for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.

The volunteers who organized and planned the 47 walks in 2008 raised over $340,000 for hunger needs, with over $85,000 of that going directly to local food banks. In addition to the dollars, cases of food items were also donated directly to food banks by participating walkers.

It has been very encouraging to see such an increase in challenging economic times. As one volunteer coordinator said, "People struggling to feed themselves and their families need us more than ever, so we were grateful for the great response at our 2008 walk."

Another volunteer coordinator, when asked if they would be doing a walk this year, shortly after the tornado struck Windsor, CO : "Of course, we will." And they did, raising over $4,000.

Lutherans walking with Presbyterians, Christians with Methodists, United Church of Christ members with people from the community and so it went in 2008. Walking together because they (the hungry) walk.

Thank you for lifting up the CROP Hunger Walk this past year as a way for your members to make a difference. It is our pleasure to share with you the summary for the 47 walks. With your continued support, we have already begun what we hope will be another successful year in 2009.

Click here to see the report.

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