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This year’s WILL RUN FOR FOOD participants included runners from our church and school family as well as friends from the community. The team had participants from State College and Altoona, PA, Ohio and North Carolina. WILL RUN FOR FOOD is already planning for next year’s participation at the 2012 Pittsburgh Marathon on May 6 to help even more hungry people.
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Half Marathon, Relay or 5k.
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2012 Fundraising goals:
Marathon $500
Half Marathon $300
Relay $750
5k $150
WILL RUN FOR FOOD and Run/Walk a Mile for Food raised $17,500 to fight hunger this year. The 24 marathon, half marathon and relay team participants raised over $12,000. More than $4300 was raised by our school students at an onsite run/walk from St. Luke’s campus to Laura Doerr Park and back in May and contributions of April and May chapel offerings.Corporate sponsors Concordia Lutheran Ministries, Up-N-Running,
J & J Fire Protection, Venture Engineering and Frankferd Farms Foods also generously contributed funds and services.
2011 WILL RUN FOR FOOD will stock the food pantry shelves at Sonshine Ministries in McKeesport, PA for a full year and purchase through Food for the Poor, Inc. the following: water well for a village; house, food and clothing, school supplies and tuition, and a small business start-up for one family; one ton of rice and beans; two dairy cows; one goat; 200 chicks; 16 fruit trees for impoverished people of the Caribbean and Central America. Find out how you can help.
The Jean family in their new home built by 2011 WILL RUN FOR FOOD
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Thanks and praise be to God who has blessed this endeavor and continues to bless us daily. The organizers of WILL RUN FOR FOOD feel blessed by the outpouring of generosity toward hungry people here and around the world.
Our 2010 donations totalled $12,000. At home our donations have provided at least 4 months of groceries for 250 families monthly who depend on Sonshine Ministries Food Pantry.
Our donations to Food for the Poor have provided “everything for a family with nothing,” the Meus family of Artibonite, Haiti, including: a new house with a latrine; rice and beans for a year; a small business project to help provide a source of income; school supplies for two children (including books and uniforms); clothing and shoes. WILL RUN FOR FOOD has also enabled Food for the Poor to plant 140 fruit-bearing trees (avocado, breadfruit, banana and mango) to combat the massive deforestation in Haiti while providing a sustainable source of nutritious food.
Meus Family
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