Lead for Change Blog
Trunk or Treat
March 21, 2014The Mission Team gives away Fair Trade Mini chocolate bars on Halloween. We feel this is an excellent opportunity to start reaching children.
23rd. Annual Christmas Cookie Walk and Bazaar
March 21, 2014Tons of home-made cookies for sale, crafts, frozen casseroles, peanut brittle, note cards and a Chile lunch and a Fair Trade Booth! We will also be featuring Artwork by The ARC. Live Music by the Church Street String Band. Use south parking lot to enter building
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Maya Works
March 21, 2014Fair Trade Stoles, table runners, hot pads-lots of fun stuff, They have wonderful stories about how each stole is made and the Priest who started the coops.
Surf the Web
March 21, 2014We have searched everything fom the Harken- Engel Protocol to fair trade candy bars. What a resource! I have used the web-to prepare to present to UMC-Rock Valley College-CRS-and Rockford University.
Equal Exchange
March 21, 2014The Presbyterian Coffee Project EE has a wonderful interfiath program. They also have many wonderful campaigns, one example is ” Trunk or Treat”
Thanksgiving Dinner at Court St. UMC
March 21, 20142nd./1st. is a Downtown Church and Court Steet Methodist Church is our neighbor. We provide Fair Trade Coffee and eco-friendly cups to Court Street UMC, to use at their Thanksgiving Dinner. We also cook an debone turkeys for them.
100 Men Who Cook
March 21, 2014This is a benefit held by The Literacy Council of Winnebago and Boone County. We serve Fair Trade Coffee to all in attendance (over 800) We also have a large banner behind our table and with the help of Equal Exchange we also have cup and sugar ( There is a small business card under […]
Cookie Walk
March 21, 2014Fair Trade participates in the 2nd. 1st. Annual Cookie Walk. We have a large table set up with Fair Trade Products from around the world. Last year the 2nd./1st. Annual Cookie Walk had 120 dozens cookies -every dozen was different. Sales for the cookies were wonderful and Fair Trade also benefited from the ladies hard […]
2nd./1st. Pastor’s stoles
March 21, 2014Each Pastor has a Fair Trade Stole. These stole are worn on special occasions (World Fair Trade Day and Fair Trade Month)
2nd./1st. always serve Fair Trade Coffee, Tea, sugar, and honey
March 21, 2014In 2003 the Session of 1st. Presbyterian Church made the decision to serve only Fair Trade Coffee at all Church events, meting and activities. 2nd./1st. Church also uses “Fair Trade” Palms on Palm Sunday.
The Chocholic Frolic
March 21, 2014This is a benefit for The ARC of Winnebago County. It is 40 plus chocolate vendors-giving away chocolate. With the help of Equal Exchange, we give away mini Chocolate bars and lots of education.
The Dark Side of Chocolate
March 20, 2014On February 8, 2014-we presented this movie to an adult group, within our Church called The Mariners. The movie dealt with human trafficking (children) in the chocoate industry (specifically the Ivory Coast)