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One Great Hour of Sharing - March 18, 2012 (also can be celebrated at anytime)

Your Generous Gifts benefits The United Methodist Committee on Relief located at the General Board of Global Ministries. With this offering, The United Methodist Church rebuilds lives and communities around the world by helping the United Methodist Committee on Relief keep its promise that 100% of your designated gift goes to specific causes.

 
"Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind."

--Psalm 107:8, NRSV
 

 

Children and adults from various communities had already assembled and were eagerly waiting, when the UMCOR delegation finally reached remote Mutumbami, Zimbabwe. Today was the day the children would take home school supplies from UMCOR’s Sager Brown depot.

As the contents of the kits were announced, the eager crowd reacted: notebooks (smiles, clapping), scissors (smiles, clapping), an eraser, a ruler, crayons (more smiles and clapping), pencils (LOUD CHEERS!!!). “Never have I seen such excitement about six pencils!” said UMCOR’s Melissa Crutchfield, moved to find something so commonplace in her homeland was so prized in this struggling community.

This year marks UMCOR Sager Brown’s twentieth anniversary of bringing joy and hope in the form of relief kits to communities around the world—whether school supplies to children in Africa eager to study, or cleaning buckets to families in the United States mucking out their homes after a hurricane,
flood or tornado.

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God’s Steadfast Love
So much of what UMCOR does is about revealing God’s steadfast love for humankind. For more than 70 years, UMCOR has brought hope and solidarity to communities both at home and abroad in the wake of disaster, and support and expertise to those on a path to development. UMCOR’s relief-supply ministry is part of those efforts, gathering the goodwill of selfless volunteers to assemble much-needed relief kits and cleaning buckets to ship to those seeking to become self-sufficient or to rebuild lives and communities following an emergency.

ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING
Join United Methodists everywhere by participating in the special offering that supports UMCOR’s vital work. Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing lay the foundation for UMCOR to manifest God’s steadfast love throughout the world. Please give generously.

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