Each month on Communion Sunday (which is usually the first Sunday of the month except in September, when it is the second Sunday of the month) we will celebrate the ministry of the Food Pantry by having a special collection. For the weeks prior to the collection we will list in the Bulletin any specific needs the pantry has. Of course you are welcome to bring your contributions at any time, but we will take a special collection on Food Pantry Sunday.

There will be a box to collect your donations at the doors when you enter the sanctuary. During the first hymn, the children and youth of the church will bring the gifts forward and put them before the communion table. In this way we hope to make the contributions visible, and help our children to learn about this important ministry of our church and community.

Coming Events:

Thursday, September 20^th 4 - 7 p.m. All-you-can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner to benefit Youth Program and Habitat for Humanity.
Plans are underway for the Spaghetti Dinner, and we need your help! Please sign up in the East Room following worship beginning September 2^nd to help set-up, cook, serve, or clean up. Cookies will be served for dessert, so we are asking for dozens of cookies. If you are willing to bake a dozen or more, please sign up.
Shirley Cummins will soon have tickets available for sale and purchase. The cost is $6/adult; $4/child 12 and under.

Sunday, October 14^th 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Chicken Barbeque

Sunday, November 18^th following worship Community Thanksgiving Dinner

September 16, 1:00 pm
Beginning at the Warsaw Park

Help our community raise money to fight hunger locally and worldwide. Join the United Church of Warsaw and other local churches for our fifth annual CROP WALK on September 16 beginning at 1:00 pm at the Warsaw Park.

If you are a walker, there is a 10K, 5K or a Golden Mile to choose from.
Entertainment, refreshments and warm-up exercises (all donated) will be provided.

Sign up NOW, after church to be a Walker or Sponsor. Sponsors may make checks out to CWS/CROP (Church World Service).

See Lisa Coogan (786-2858) or Lynn Saxton (786-8527) for more information. Thank you.

Walking for Food

• Over 852 million people around the world are hungry – one-seventh of the human family.
• Most of these people are not victims of famine, but suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition that stunts growth, sapping energy and potential.
• Every day, more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes – about one child every five seconds.
• 1.2 billion people in developing countries live on an income of $1 a day or less.

What is poverty? To come home and see your children go hungry and not have anything to give them. Brazil

Walking for Water

• 1 of every 6 people in the world lack access to safe drinking water.
• 1 of every 3 people lack access to improved sanitation.
• In sub-Saharan Africa, just 57% of the people enjoy access to safe water.
• In the 1990s, the number of children killed by diarrhea – the result of unsafe water and sanitation – exceeded the number of people killed in armed conflicts since World War II.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. President Franklin D. Roosevelt