All are invited to join families and individuals from Newtown who will be walking in the CROP Hunger Walk, scheduled this year for Sunday, October 27.

The walk will take place in Fairfield Hills, beginning from and returning to NYA Sports & Fitness Center, 4 Primrose Street. The walk will step off at 2 pm, and participants will be invited to walk all or part of the two-mile scenic trail.

The annual event will again showcase Newtown as a caring community, while visibly raising local awareness of worldwide hunger issues and raising funds to end hunger, one step at a time.

The CROP Hunger Walk was started 50 years ago by a group of energized young people in Bismarck, North Dakota who wanted to mobilize their community to fight global hunger. Today, the CROP Hunger Walk is a national movement raising funds for the global hunger-fighting work of Church World Service (CWS) and local hunger-fighting agencies. Last year, more than 800 events raised more than $8.3 million.

The local walk is a community-wide event. It is organized by many of Newtown’s faith communities.

A quarter of the funds raised by the local CROP WALK will support the FAITH Food Pantry, The Salvation Army food pantry at Newtown Social Services, and The Dorothy Day House in Danbury. The remainder of the funds supports the global work of CWS, which works in more than 30 countries worldwide to empower local communities.

For more info and/or to get a sponsor form, contact the Reverend Matt Crebbin, senior pastor of Newtown Congregational Church, at newcong@sbcglobal.net.

Individuals can also register, seek sponsors, and create teams at crophungerwalk.org/newtownct.