October 4: GCPC Day of Service to Stop Hunger

Come around early afternoon on October 4^th you are invite to join with others to help bring attention to the need to better address hunger in the World and in our community; it is about growing healthy children and healthy minds.

You have a spot in the afternoon activities—join one or all three. The afternoon starts with the Asheville area Crop Hunger Walk.

Crop Hunger Walk

1:15 PM Meet at Grace Covenant to carpool downtown to First Baptist Church.

Or come directly to First Baptist--1:45 PM Meet at First Baptist Church. Crop Walk begins promptly at 2pm.

Yes you can do a half the distance by starting at First Baptist and ending at Grace Covenant. Grace Covenant is the approximate half way point!

2:45 PM Snacks, fellowship and rest at GCPC…your energy will be fueled by brownies cooked by K-8 young people, and fruit.

3:15 PM Service Project at GCPC --packaging beans and rice for Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Poverty on the reservation is one of the highest in our nation.

·   Some statistics recorded this decade.

·   Unemployment rate of 80-90%

·   Per capita income of $4,000

·   8 Times the United States rate of diabetes

·   5 Times the United States rate of cervical cancer

·   Twice the rate of heart disease

·   8 Times the United States rate of Tuberculosis

·   Alcoholism rate estimated as high as 80%

·   1 in 4 infants born with fetal alcohol syndrome or effects

·   Suicide rate more than twice the national rate

·   Teen suicide rate 4 times the national rate

·   Infant mortality is three times the national rate

4:00 PM Dinner and Presentation, “Joining Hands with Haiti’, Mark Hare and Jenny Bent-Hare Agricultural and Health Workers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic will share their work. Mark’s Yard Garden work is the inspiration for the tire garden beside the GCPC parking area. Dinner will be a robust Haitian Vegetable Stew served over grits or rice, dessert a WNC apple crisp.

For sure you can make a donation for your dinner and also Sponsor a Crop Walker by buying a foot for$10. All donations go to help ease hunger in our community.