Reminder: CROP Walk for Hunger

It's coming! Sixth Church walks on Sunday, October 11 at 2:00 p.m., starting from the South Avenue United Methodist Church in Wilkinsburg and walking through the neighborhoods of the East End to raise money for the hunger and refugee work of Church World Service.

Want to help? You can be a walker, or you can sponsor a walker with your pledge.

Here are a few examples of programs supported through the CROP Walk:

• A network of rural cooperatives in Haiti are working together to create economic security and sustainable food sources for their families.

• Women in 19 rural communities in Nicaragua are developing funds to promote local development and food security initiatives.

Pledge through the online donation site for our Pittsburgh East Walk -- or sign up to sponsor a walker any Sunday morning after worship.

SmallWorks Benefit Concert: Tunes and Televisions!

SmallWorks will hold its first annual benefit concert at Your Inner Vagabond in Lawrenceville on Friday October 2, 2009 at 7:00 pm. Music includes acoustic work by Black and Berg from their "Divide by Zero" project!

Admission is a $10 donation at the door. As Chris reminded us at worship this week, SmallWorks is working with Wood Street Commons to provide gently used televisions to its residents, so in addition to a ten-dollar-bill, please feel free to bring in that functioning television that you've been wanting to surrender: it's found a new home!

For more on SmallWorks, follow the link that can be found on the right side of this blog page. (That's it -- scroll down a little bit -- there! You found it!)