About 100 people from Fall River Area churches and organizations gathered on May 30, 2015 at The Congregational Christian Church in Somerset to raise over $9,000 in funds for the Greater Fall River Council of Churches CROP Walk. An additional $1,750 was raised for the United Neighbors food program for homeless families. CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by local congregations or groups to raise funds to end hunger at home and around the world. Currently, well over 2,000 communities across the U.S. join in more than 1,600 CROP Hunger Walks each year.  More than five million CROP Hunger Walkers have participated in more than 36,000 CROP Hunger Walks in the last two decades alone. All of the money raised is channeled through Church World Service, an ecumenical agency with a long track record of working with established mission agencies and projects throughout the world. Twenty-five percent of the money raised helps feeding ministries in Fall River. Click here for a five-and-a-half-minute video of the start of the walk. Click here for photos of the 2011 walk. Contributions can still be made to the Fall River drive at Cropwalk.org by clicking on the DONATE button.

(Top row) Groups of walkers from Citizens for Citizens, the Fall River office of Starwood Hotels, and the First Christian Congregational Church in Swansea pose for group photos before the start of the walk. (Row two) Life Together Fellow Adrian Paulino gives instructions on the walk to the gathered groups at the Congregational Christian Church on County Street in Somerset. (Row three) A slow-walker group heads west for a shorter walk. (Bottom row) Other walkers head north on County Street for a four-mile walk before returning for a chowder lunch back at the Church.

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