CROP Walk update

Update on Crop Hunger Walk

Congratulations GCPC community! Thanks to your support we raised $575 to help stop hunger. Due to the weather, the Crop Walk was cancelled last week and rescheduled for Sunday, October 11th at 2pm.  Unfortunately, our church calendar was full that weekend, but we are grateful to everyone who planned to participate. See you next year!

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.

Crop Walk October 6

 CROP Walk | THIS Sunday, October 6 | 1:30-4:30 PM | GCPC Parking Lot

How to participate:

·       Walk

·       Donate (at GCPC or online)

·       Carpool

·       Distribute Water

 

Participants from many faith communities will be walking to raise money for hunger relief globally and locally.  People in developing countries walk an average of six miles daily to meet their basic food needs.  As such participants in the CROP walk will walk six miles to stand in solidarity with those who have to do this daily.

All money raised from the walk will be donated to hunger relief organizations.

Locally: 

·       MANNA Food Bank

·       Loving Food Resources

·       ABCCM

·       Meals on Wheels

Internationally:

·       Proceeds from the Walk go to Church World Services hunger relief efforts.

Crop Walk This Weekend!

Lace up your sneakers and / or whip out your checkbooks! THIS Sunday is CROP Walk, which works to end hunger locally and globally. Sign-up in the narthex. We'll meet in the GCPC parking lot at 1:15 PM and carpool to the First Baptist Church, downtown, where we'll register and begin the either 2.5 mile walk to Grace Covenant, or 5 mile round-trip journey back to First Baptist - your choice. If your sponsoring, please leave your check at the sign-up table, made out to GCPC, with "2012 CROP Walk" in the memo line. Many thanks to all who participate in this fun event! For questions, contact Beth Kissling or Loryn Hartbarger.

Crop Walk Coordinators Needed!

The Asheville Buncombe County Crop Walk is coming up on October 14th, 2012.  Crop Walk is wonderful program aimed at raising money and awareness to fight hunger throughout the world.  To make Crop Walk happen at GCPC this year, we need at least two people to step forward and lead the event.  The leaders would need to work on publicity, sign ups, and paperwork as well as communicate with the local Crop Organizers.  They would also be in charge of getting people where they need to be on the day of the event.  Kristy Farber will be happy to assist the leaders in whatever way they need.  Please contact Kristy if you are interested.

Congratulations, GCPC CROP Walkers!

GCPC Crop Walkers 2011

Crop Walk 2011

This Sunday, October 16th, is the annual Asheville Crop Walk where churches take part in raising money and awareness of hunger needs around the world.

There will be no evening youth group on THIS Sunday, October 16.  We are hoping that all youth and families will join in with congregations around the city for this important walk.  

If you are able to donate money for yourself or another walker, please make that check out to CWS/CROP. Suggested donation per walker is $25.

Meet at GCPC at 1:15 to Carpool

Walk begins at 2:00 from First Baptist downtown

Short walk (2.5 miles) ends at GCPC

Longer walk (5 miles) ends back at First Baptist

More information: http://www. cropwalkab.org