Community Corner
Berkley CROP Hunger Walk Helps Make Michigan Top Fundraising State
Local churches collaborated for Sunday event, which raised about $9,000 for a total of more than $160,000 and counting over the years.
Thanks to the work of churches in Berkley and elsewhere in the state over the weekend, Michigan continues to be the leader in the United States raising money for Church World Service and battling hunger.
“The 22nd annual CROP Walk was a great success,” said the Rev. Peter Moore of in Berkley. “About 80 walkers and another 25 volunteers took part. Many of all different ages walked (and) walkers also included quite a few of the four-legged variety.”
The family fundraiser on Sunday offered 5 mile and 1 mile routes. The walk began and ended at Greenfield with checkpoints at , and Moore said Water to Wine, the praise band from Cana Lutheran, entertained the crowd during the event, and congregation members worked together to host a cookout for the walkers when they returned.
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Though funds are still being collected until June 10, Moore estimates the group raised more than $9,000 for Church World Service and its fight against hunger.
“Twenty-five percent of those dollars will come right back to our local community and will (be) divided between the Welcome Inn Day Center and the South Oakland Shelter,” he said. “We have now raised over $160,000 in our walks.”
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Moore added that Michigan raised more than $2 million last year for Church World Service and was the top fundraising state in the country. That money went toward the more than $15 million raised for Church World Service's international efforts and health ministries in 2011.
An additional $4 million was distributed to some 3,000 hunger programs here in the United States, he said.
