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Your Generous Gifts assists:
- Community Developers Program, related to the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM);
- United Methodist Voluntary Services Program, GBGM; and
- Youth Offender Rehabilitation Program, General Board of Church and Society.
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The Human Relations Day offering is helping students at Philander Smith College engage in ministries that advocate for solutions to injustice, hunger, homelessness and other social ills.
Let’s Get Radical: Think Justice
Radical means “from the root or foundation.” That is how Jesus changed lives and how we, his followers, are called to change the world.
Being in ministry with the poor requires a radical or fundamental approach to overcoming not just the consequences but also the causes of poverty. It’s a matter of justice.
Your Human Relations Day offering supports vital community ministries that teach and advocate for justice, especially among people struggling to survive in the margins of society.
For example, students at United Methodist-related Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., are becoming more involved in social concerns with help from the United Methodist Voluntary Service program. Combining academics with activism, the tiny, historically black college—with “Think Justice” as its motto—is teaching students to pursue justice for a better world.
During one Thanksgiving week students explored and responded to the worsening plight of hunger and homelessness in central Arkansas. They hosted a Faces of the Homeless symposium, volunteered at a shelter and soup kitchen, slept in cardboard boxes outdoors overnight and collected food and clothing for 100 needy families.
Other lessons have come from a letter-writing campaign to lobby for tougher drunk-driving laws and public forums with consciousness-raising guest speakers.
Your gifts to
Human Relations Day provide avenues to restored relationships through ministries like Youth Offender Rehabilitation, Community Developers self-improvement programs and United Methodist Voluntary Services community advocacy programs. It’s time to think and support justice, to become radical in changing lives and changing the world. Please give generously.
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To send donations by check, mail to:
GCFA
P.O. Box 340029
Nashville, TN 37203
NOTE: List the name of the Sunday in the note section of your check.
