Coach of the Denver Broncos, Mike Shanahan, promotes the CROP Hunger Walk

Coach Mike Shanahan recently made a Public Service Announcement encouraging people to get involved with CROP Walk. He is offering an autographed CROP t-shirt to the person who raises the most money for world hunger in Colorado!! Take a look...

Call your senator right now!

Bread for the World's letter writing campaign this year is for the Global Poverty act. Congress is considering their action RIGHT NOW! Here is a great video about how to easily make a call to your Senator.


Global Poverty Act from Matthew McAllister on Vimeo.

Make your call today- we need them to co-sponsor this bill. For more information click here!
http://www.bread.org/take-action/call-congress-today.html

Zambia and Central Presbyterian

How lucky we are! Churches in our Presbytery have had several trips to Africa planed. Yuma Presbyterian sent folks to Milawe, 1st Presbyterian Ft Collins will be sending folks soon...and perhaps others that I don't know about.

I am privileged to be part of the team going to Zambia this week, and I look forward to working with the Chawama Church whose members are very active in caring for AIDs orphans. In the country of Zamiba it is estimated that one out of every six people is living with HIV/AIDS. In 2005 98,000 people died of AIDs; in that same year it was estimated that there were 710,000 AIDs orphans in the country.

Saturday the team of Cindy Garcia, Glenn Perica, Ken White, Diane Kirkpatrick and myself met to sort and pack the generous supplies donated for the AIDs oprhans and their school. The next step is packing our own gear and departure this Thursday May 8th. Please follow along with us on our trip. We'll plan to share stories and pictures here on this site (as technology permits).

Karamu Ringera- International Peace Initiatives

Dr. Karamu Ringera, Kenya, founder of the International Peace Initiatives spoke to students at Silver Creek High School 4/21/08. Here are some notes:

Free Rice- It really works!

Most of you have seen the Internet phenomenon "free rice" by now. Not only does it teach new vocabulary, but it actually donating rice to needy countries.

By learning new vocabulary, users earn grains of rice as points. When you get the correct answer, you get the sponsors of the Free Rice site donate 20 grains of rice

John Breen, game inventor, set it up so that the rice is distributed through the UN’s World Food

Program. As of April 14th 2008 almost 26.5 TRILLION grains of rice were donated to needy countries. Click here to see a short video how free rice reaches Bangladesh.

Now don't think this is all easy stuff- the vocabulary is set up with 45 levels of difficulty and new words are being added all the time in order to make it challenging or easier. The site states that they are on the hunt to find the hairiest and most difficult words in the English language! They are also looking to add easy words, medium words and all the other words you might ever want to know. In short, they do not want you to run out of vocabulary to learn anytime soon... :)

So- play on! Enjoy the game. You can always click on the new FREE RICE picture on the left side!

Peacemaking Conference

Registration is now open online for

2008 Presbyterian Peacemaking Conference

Sowing Mustard Seeds: Working for God’s Justice — Confronting Poverty

This is a terrific opportunity for you and your family to explore and participate in unwinding the multiple issues that perpetuate poverty in our communities and the world.

Check out this conference July 15-19th at Chapman University. Click here for more information!

ECO Palms!

Did you know:
* Approximately 300 million palm fronds are consumed in the United States annually.
* A congregation of 1,250 members orders approximately 700 fronds for Palm Sunday services.
*Eco-palms are purchased directly from harvesters at 5 to 6 times the normal payment per frond.
*Your purchase of eco-palms helps improve standards of living and protect forests.

Several churches in our Presbytery used Eco Palms for their celebration of Palm Sunday this year. What a great way to show your purchasing practices to support the world community!

For more information visit: ECO PALMS

Want to be part of the solution? Or....

Souper Bowl!

The Super Bowl is almost here...and now is the time to begin planning for your own "celebrations" to help hungry people on or around February 3rd.

Your church can participate in two ways:
#1. On or near NFL Super Bowl Sunday, students of Presbyterian churches join others in their communities in asking their members to donate money or food to those in need.

#2. Sometime before the big game- your students can participate in a Service Blitz, doing volunteer work at your choice of charities. An hour or an afternoon- doing just about any project that can help hungry people. Most importantly- it helps teach your students the importance of reaching out to help others in your community!

For more information go to Souper Bowl of Caring website, or contact me!