A Family Event to Teach Kindness and Generosity
Have your children asked how they can help hurricane victims or those who are hungry? Have you wanted to teach kindness and generosity to your children or grandchildren? Perhaps you might want to consider encouraging your family to participate in the CARDUNAL CROP WALK on Sunday, October 15th.
The organizers have a planned route, Prairie Trail, which ranges from 3 miles to 6 miles. However, it is possible to turn around at any point on the trail. It’s also possible to ask the driver of the CROP WALK car to take you back to the host church anyplace along the route.
So, perhaps you can encourage younger kids to ride their bicycles or their tricycles and join the walk. Perhaps you can push a stroller. Families can obtain a pledge envelope for their own family, and then they can ask other church members to sign their pledge forms. Explain to your children that the money they get from those who pledge will be given to several organizations. Two local food pantries and the local PADS as well as Church World Service will receive the money from this walk. Church World Service mission is to meet immediate hunger needs and to try to end the causes of food insecurity (hunger).
An anonymous donor will be donating $10.00 for every Christ United Methodist Church child or youth, age 18 or younger, who participates in this event. If your family has two adults and three children, then your family will receive a $30.00 pledge from the donor. (All offers have limits and this offer is limited to the families of Christ United Methodist Church.)
Currently we have 14 Walkers signed up, including: Pastor Ron & his dog, Ghost, Chad & Kim Aupperle, Dave Clark, Ken & Katy Spooner, Joe & Eleanor Kilberger, the Kukreja family, and our CUMC Youth. To sponsor a walker please talk to any of our walkers at church. You can also still sign up to Walk at (click here to sign up to be a Walker), or if you’d like to sponsor the CUMC TEAM online,(click here to sponsor the whole CUMC team–choose CUMC in the “see list” box)
Kim Aupperle will have envelopes for each family and special labels for children and youth ages 18 and younger. The labels will be attached to the family’s pledge envelope. The label indicates that the anonymous donor will be contributing $10 per child. Be sure to tell Kim how many children will be walking – (or riding in a stroller, or traveling by bicycle or tricycle), and she will give you the label for your pledge envelope.
See Kim at church on Sunday for your envelope. E-mail her if you have special questions: Kimberlyaupp@yahoo.com