WHAT:  26th Annual Hunger Walk to benefit Ravenswood Community Services and the Greater Chicago Food Depository

WHEN:  Saturday morning, June 25.  Registration begins at 7 a.m.  Step-off is at 8:15 a.m.

WHERE:  Soldier Field

WHY:  To help raise money and awareness for hunger relief in our community

Can you sponsor TEAM RCS or join us on the walk? Go to

www.chicagosfoodbank.org/

goto/ravenswood 

to make an online donation to Team RCS, or to join Team RCS and create your own personal Hunger Walk fundraising page.

100% of the funds raised by RCS walkers will go directly to the purchase of food for our Tuesday night Food Pantry and Community Kitchen.  In 2010, TEAM RCS raised more than $8,000 to help feed our hungry neighbors!  Can you help us do it again?

All walkers who are registered with Team RCS - regardless if whether they raise money or not -- help earn credits to purchase food for our Tuesday night neighbors.  Come walk with us to help end hunger in our community! 

Transportation will be provided to and from All Saints'.  The "RCS Express" will leave from our 1757 W. Wilson door at 7:15 a.m., sharp!  We expect the bus to return to All Saints' around 10 a.m. or a little after.  Or, if you want to be in control of your own destiny, free parking is available at Soldier Field for Hunger Walkers on a first come, first served basis.  Email Wendy to hold your spot on the bus or for parking details.

For more information, email Wendy at Ravenswood Community Services or call her at the RCS office at 773-769-0282.

THE WHITE HOUSE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 22, 2011

Statement from the President on Sudan

On Monday, the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed an agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to reduce tensions in Abyei and allow UN peacekeepers from Ethiopia into the region.   I commend the parties for taking this step forward toward peace, and I urge them now to build on that progress and agree to an immediate cease fire in Southern Kordofan.  Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, both parties committed to resolve their differences peacefully, and both parties have a responsibility to end the current violence and allow immediate humanitarian access to desperate people who have been driven from their homes and are now cut off from outside help.

The situation in Southern Kordofan is dire, with deeply disturbing reports of attacks based on ethnicity.  The United States condemns all acts of violence, in particular the Sudanese Armed Forces aerial bombardment  of civilians and harassment and intimidation of UN peacekeepers.  With a ceasefire in Southern Kordofan, alongside the agreement to deploy peacekeepers to Abyei, we can get the peace process back on track.  But without these actions, the roadmap for better relations with the Government of Sudan cannot be carried forward, which will only deepen Sudan's isolation in the international community. Without a cease-fire and political negotiations, the people of Southern Kordofan cannot enjoy the right to have their political grievances addressed. The negotiations now under way in Addis Ababa demand the urgent commitment from both sides to peace and to the agreement for immediate help to those civilians caught up in this conflict.

All Saints' has been chosen as one of 100 finalists in the nationwide This Place Matters competition, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation designed to recognize and support noteworthy buildings that are central within their communities. 

If All Saints' receives the most votes, we'll be awarded $25,000 to put toward the repair of our church. Second and third place winners will receive $10,000 and $5,000, respectively.

The voting is open from June 1-30, 2011.  Individuals can vote only once during that time. To learn more and vote, visit http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/all-saints-episcopal-church.html

If you feel All Saints' is important to the community - and you want to make sure the building doesn't fall down - please forward this email to all your friends and family, post the link on your Facebook page, Tweet it, etc. etc.

Thanks for your time and support!

Hosts for the coffee hour that takes place between the 9 and 11am services are still needed for July 17, July 24, Sept. 4, Sept. 11 and Oct. 30. If you're interested in helping out or have questions about how it all works, please contact Karen Howe at coffeehour9@allsaintschicago.org.

If you're interested in helping with this ministry, please contact Nina Chinn at ninachinn@comcast.net or 773-561-2407 and she can give you all the information you need to get started.

For all you fashionistas out there...

$20 scores you the official yellow runner "technical" tee.  Wear it to train for next year's race (set for April 29, 2012).  Available in sizes S, M, L, and XL while quantities last.

Shirts will be for sale at the RCS volunteer check-in table on Tuesday nights.  To make other arrangements to score one of these fantastic fashion must-haves, email Wendy.

Can you donate your green thumb to help feed hungry neighbors?

Colleen McVeigh, a teacher at Ravenswood School, has won a grant from Green Corps to plant a community garden at the school.  Ms. McVeigh and her Garden Club students have offered to donate some of the garden's produce to RCS to use in our Tuesday night Food Pantry and Community Kitchen.

RCS is looking for one or two volunteers who can help Ms. McVeigh and her students tend the garden over the summer.  The commitment includes once-a-week watering, weeding and harvesting.  To volunteer or for more information, please contact Wendy at the RCS office at 773-769-0282 or by email.

Pat Lester, John Ford, Jerry LaTuillippe, Ms. Camille, Lynne Fischer, Michael Cullen, Violet, and the Repchic

family, Andrew Mauro, Ms. Holliday, William J. Goins, and his sisters Jean, Becky, and Glada, Debbie and Carl,

Dominic Lester, Rev. Joan McPherson, Rhys Nicholas Burke, Bob Donovan, Stan Strickland, Jeanne Knepper

& Marcia Hauer, Rae and Melanie, Nikki Seger, Gene Boese, John Wojciechowski, Art Mannon, Julie Ann

Villa, Debbie Smart, Carolyn Cooney, Charles Simokaitis, Sr., Connie Wilson, Margaret McHugh, Shawn,

Susan and Finneus Wicks, Marissa Heirich, Cynthia Reynolds, Sean Wicks and his son John Massan, Amy

Orr, Bonnie Owens, Donald, James and Randy, Michael Krause, Lori T., Myra, Larry, Joseph Libretti, Jr., Anna

Elizabeth Stanley, Judy, Antonio, Kevin Hunt, Jesse Torrence, Joan Zaradich, Dana Zaradich, Lisa Zaradich,

Aluma Alex, Joyce Mauro, Richard Ruby, Nina Davis, Brenda Richardson, Chris, Ron, Peg Deppe, 

Helen LoRusso, Stephen Walk, Ann Robson Walk, Brian Meyer, Meredith's Brother, Carol Smith, Randy Davis, Pat Ford

Birthdays

6/26-      Matthew Arenas

6/27-      Zoe Harris 

6/28-      Paulette Black 

6/29-      Colin Gleason 

6/30-      Stephen Salerno

7/2-        Ed Bird 

Anniversaries

6/27-      Dan Morgan and Katy Kelsey Morgan

We remember all of the people killed in Southern Sudan this week.