Canadian Mennonite
Volume 11, No. 19
October 1, 2007
Pennies from heaven for work here on earth
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Volunteer Sara Bremner, left photo, spent Friday evening counting and rolling pennies at the Penny Power booth at the Abbotsford (B.C.) Mennonite Central Committee Festival Auction and Relief Sale. The Penny Power booth raised $31,900 (and counting); the final total will be matched four-to-one by the Canadian International Development Agency for food projects in Bangladesh.
After throwing a few coins into the “wheelbarrow of coins,” a project of young people of the Rosenort (Man.) Evangelical Mennonite Church, Julianna and Alexander Krahn, pictured in the photo at right, with Sara and Amy Willms of Winnipeg, above, take an extra good look at the coins. The coin project realizes between $2,500 and $3,500 annually for the Morris (Man.) Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale.