Special Sundays - One Great Hour of Sharing - Overview

2011 One Great Hour of Sharing - April 3, 2011 (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.

 
The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, “Go to Siloam and wash.” Then I went and washed and received my sight.

--John 9:11b, NRSV
 

Mohammed and other farmers in nearby villages of Sierra Leone were blinded by “river blindness” or “onchocerciasis.” The disease was caused by parasitic worms transmitted by black flies. When Mohammed and his neighbors lost their sight, they also lost their only means of providing for their families.

However, today Mohammed can work on his farm in Port Loko District and support his family once again because of UMCOR’s work in the West Africa Initiative and the Community Blind Farmer’s Association.

Through these organizations, blind farmers learn how to return to their fields and find other means of income. 

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Restoration. Healing. Hope.

Jesus teaches us to bring healing and restoration wherever we can.

So much of what UMCOR does is about restoration: giving sight to the blind, building up farming communities, helping workers to become self-sufficient and reconstructing places destroyed by disaster.

 

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 bring restoration, healing and hope for tomorrow. Please give generously. 

To read additional stories on lives changed by your gifts to the One Great Hour of Sharing Sunday click here.

To donate please click on the button above. 

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.

 

One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) is one of the six churchwide Special Sundays with offerings of The United Methodist Church. OGHS enables the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to live out its mission to alleviate human suffering.

UMCOR is the humanitarian arm of The United Methodist Church. OGHS gifts underwrite UMCOR’s “costs of doing business,” meaning that every penny of every gift you make to a specific UMCOR project will be spent on that project—not on office administrative costs. This enables UMCOR to respond to natural or human made disasters.

The OGHS offering makes ministries available in the United State and across the globe. In 81 countries in all, you assure the United Methodist Church is in the lead to alleviate suffering through OGHS.