On Oct. 11, Parkway Community Church will join a nationwide effort to stop hunger…and it all starts with a couple of steps.
The Hicksville church will be sponsoring a CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Hunger Walk to raise money for the Church World Service, a faith-based relief organization. Members from the church will be doing a one-mile walk through Hicksville and hope to raise $5,000 through donations.
Pastor Hank Lay has been doing CROP Walks for the past 30 years, and says it’s a great way to raise awareness for both the local and global hunger problem.
“I know too many hungry people,” Lay says. “Americans have too much money and food at their disposal and too many people in this world are hungry for various reasons. Too many people don’t get enough to eat and this is one agency that has a good track record and helps people around the world.”
Anyone is invited to participate in the CROP Walk. The one mile route starts on Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. at the church on Stewart Avenue and then will go to Levittown Parkway toward Old Country Road. Lay notes participants can go as far as they want to and if they just want to cheer other walkers on they can.
Parkway regularly holds food drives for the Hicksville United Methodist Church food pantry (which is more centrally located). The walk is just one more way that the church hopes to help those in need.
“We walk because the people we want to help walk. Many homeless people on Long Island have no cars, and if they have to go somewhere, they have to walk,” Lay said.
To find out more or to make a donation, call the church at 516-935-1233.
