Coaldale-Lethbridge Community Growing Project

Is not this the fast that I choose … to break every yoketo share your bread with the hungry?
(Isaiah 58:6,7)
The Coaldale—Lethbridge Community Growing Project is one way we can offer life and hope to those who daily go without food.
Working in cooperation with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, we seek to engage our energy and ability and make a local effort towards ending world hunger. We are starting a Coaldale—Lethbridge Community Growing Project. We want you to join us!
A Community Growing Project is one way in which people can contribute towards easing the disparity of food resources around the world. And together with others, we can make a significant impact on the lives of people we may never meet, but for whom life will be bitter and short unless we choose to act.
Community growing projects are a unique way for people to contribute grain and other agricultural commodities to help people who are hungry around the world.
A typical project involves a group of people working together to farm a common plot of land. After harvest, the production is donated through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank for overseas food aid and agricultural development projects.
We are inviting you and your neighbours to become involved in this local project. Our plan is that we will rent a quarter-section of land from a local farmer, and through the “rental” of each acre cover the costs of planting, fertilizing, and harvesting grain barley. The barley will then be sold at auction, and the monies raised turned over to the Canadian Foodgrains Program for use in their many programs around the world.
We want you to share in this program…
· Sponsor an acre for $150 – and receive a tax receipt for this gift.
· Tell your friends and neighbours
· Consider how your business, company, group or organization can contribute to this project.
· Spread the good news of this exciting project
· Drive out to see your part in growing food for others
· Join us at the auction of the grain
· Come and share in the feast at the harvest.
For more information contact the local coordinating committee:
Coaldale—Lethbridge Community Growing Project
P.O. Box 1028, Coaldale, Alberta T1M 1M8
Chair: Edgar Dueck
Secretary: Ed Donkersgoed
Treasurer: Herb Wall

Or you can become an acre-sponsor through your local church by cheque, made out to your church, indicating it is for the Coaldale—Lethbridge Community Growing Project. Your church treasurer will forward it to Herb Wall along with others received.
[1] Statistics provided from Canadian Foodgrains Bank website: http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/