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CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk fundraising event created to support the global mission of Church World Service (CWS), a faith-based organization formed in 1969 to beat hunger and poverty. After a CROP Hunger Walk ends, 25% of the funds raised is returned to the Park Ridge/Niles community to support the local Maine Township Food Pantry and the remaining donations support CWS Worldwide projects.

Drawn to God, Embraced by Community

Impact Stories

Alexis Kostelny is an 18 year old local that grew up in the Russian Orthodox faith and still has family in Ukraine. During the isolation of the Covid pandemic, she felt a driving need for more of a connection to God and began investigating other Christian faiths online. She felt drawn to the Lutheran faith but was not sure which church to try.