CROP Walk Coming in October
Does it seem to you that news in our world has been overwhelmingly tragic in the past months or years? Haiti’s earthquake; Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and consequential nuclear poisoning; the heavy blows delivered to the Gulf region of the US including Katrina, the BP oil spill, and now the record flooding of the Mississippi River; Australia’s raging fires; these most recent tornadoes that delivered death and destruction across the deep South; and the list could go on and on.
Do you find yourself turning the radio off, switching the television channel, changing the subject in conversation or drifting away from that discussion and finding another happier one?
There are many ways that we can pool our resources and our concern for others as we do the work that we have been given to do. Each week in the post-communion prayer we ask for the strength and courage to do that work. We also ask that we might do it gladly and with a singleness of heart.
Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty— CROP—provides us an opportunity to join together and to respond to that singleness of heart—that concern for others that we sometimes may try to ignore because things seem so hopeless.
Our church community will unite with many other faith communities in the October CROP Walk to walk in solidarity, to give what we can, and to make a difference in the regions mentioned above.
Please visit www.churchworldservice.org and see how our efforts can help us do the work God has given us to do—and let’s discover the gladness and singleness of heart promised in the post communion prayer (BCP, pp. 365-66).
Mike Stevenson
knlstv@gmail.com