Wheaton's Gary UMC earns 'Cream of the CROP' award

Posted March 03, 2021 10:00 pm

Submitted by Janet Mathis

Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton has received the "Cream of the CROP" award.

The Wheaton church ranked in the top 50 in the United States for donations to the CROP Hunger Walk in 2020, at more than $8,000.

This year's Glen Ellyn/Wheaton Area CROP Hunger Walk is scheduled for Sunday, May 2.

For more information about the CROP Hunger Walk, go to crophungerwalk.org. CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the United States, raising funds to support the global mission of Church World Service, a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster. Twenty-five percent of the funds raised are returned to the host community to support local hunger fighting efforts.

For more information about Gary Church, go to garychurch.org.

Gary Church is offering in-person worship for 50 or fewer congregants at 9 a.m. Sundays. If you would like to attend in person on Sunday, register in advance by that Thursday on the church website.

The church also continues to provide livestreaming and recorded worship,

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