Sixty years of Trick or Treat

Several anniversaries were celebrated during the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Minneapolis.

The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program marked thirty years of ministry.

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF marked its sixtieth anniversary.

For sixty years, children have been helping vulnerable children have access to things like water, education, food and medicine, simple things that truly change lives. This simple project has made amazing differences around the world.

And Presbyterians helped to start it. Presbyterians Clyde and Mary Emma Allison helped organize the first Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF outside of Philadelphia. Clyde was a Presbyterian minister working in the church's curriculum department.

In Minneapolis, sixty years later, Kate Weber of UNICEF-USA presented a special citation to the Presbyterian Church and to Monroe Allison, son of Clyde and Mary Emma.

Plan now to Trick-or-Treat . . . for UNICEF . . . this fall.

The photos are by Tony Oltmann of the Presbyterian Church. 

The top picture is of Kate Weber. The lower picture is of Monroe Allison.