We arrived at my mother-in-law’s in Red Wing last weekend to be greeted with this sign on the refrigerator door:

Oh boy. I know my growing family consists of big eaters, but what (less than subliminal message) was she trying send us? To go slow on the apple crisp? Cut back on the yogurt?

Turned out it wasn’t a direct comment on our voracious eating habits. Phew!

But it did provide lots of food for thought. The poster was for a charity walk Betty helped organize on behalf of nine area churches as part of CROP, or Communites Responding to Overcome Poverty, an effort to alleviate hunger in developing countries.

And so our family joined more than 200 people gathered Sunday afternoon in downtown Red Wing. Together, we walked 3.6 miles in all, the average distance a woman in the developing world walks for clean water for her family each day.

A quarter of the $12,000 raised this year will stay in Red Wing and go to the area food shelf. The rest will go to Church World Service for CROP.

Baby on a mission

In these uncertain times in our own country, it was a sharp reminder that we still have so much. And there are so many others out there who don’t.

Click here for more on CROP walks and here for walks near you, including one in Minneapolis coming up Oct. 12.

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