Colonial Café supports area CROP Walks
Residents who complete one of the local 5K CROP Walks against hunger can reward themselves with a turtle sundae afterward, compliments of Colonial Café.
The local restaurant group is supporting the annual hunger walks for the 14th consecutive year. Colonial Café is donating $1 per walker and handing out a certificate good for a free turtle sundae to all participants in the Fox Valley.
"We do a lot locally but this goes beyond the needs of people in Colonial Country," said Tom Anderson, president of Colonial Café. "We hand out literature about the CROP Walk at our restaurants and our servers wear pins supporting the walk.
"Hopefully, this gets the dialogue going. The CROP Walk has grown through the years and we hope we've been a part of that."
Anderson has two restaurants in St. Charles and one each in Aurora, Elgin, Naperville, Crystal Lake and Algonquin. His company is supporting walks in those areas.
The Tri-Cities CROP Walk begins and ends at the Batavia United Methodist Church, 8 N. Lincoln Ave. on Oct. 21. Registration is at 1:15 p.m. and the walk begins at 2 p.m. Participants can bring their dogs.
About 25 percent of the proceeds will go to local groups, namely the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry, Lazarus House, the Salvation Army in St. Charles and the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
Most of the proceeds support Church World Service, a cooperative ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations that provides development, disaster relief and refugee assistance in 80 countries.
To register, call (888) 297-2767 or visit www.tricitiescropwalk.org.
Faith and War
Three views on Christians and war will be examined from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave.
Jeff Greenman, professor of Christian ethics at Wheaton College, will discuss conditions under which a Christian can engage in war. David Fitch, professor of Christian ethics at Northern Seminary in Lombard, will present the Christian view of pacifism. U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. (ret.) Jeff McFarland will talk about his faith and its relationship to his military career.
After the 30-minute presentations, Steve Felt, chairman of the board of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center, will moderate a panel featuring all three speakers. The presenters will take questions from the audience.
"This is not meant to be a referendum on the Iraq War, but obviously the topic will come up," said the Rev. David Foxgrover, senior pastor of the Congregational Church of Batavia, which is sponsoring the conference. "We want the speakers to step back from the current conflict. We could also possibly discuss the present conflict in Darfur, and what has happened in Rwanda and Bosnia. What we will be discussing is under what conditions can Christians go to war."
There will be books on the subject available for purchase.
For information, call the Congregational Church at (630) 879-1999.
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