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In the Pacific Northwest Conference, 127 churches gave $66,178.89 in 2010 to One Great Hour of Sharing. Your participation in One Great Hour of Sharing ensures the success of UMCOR projects and offers hope and healing to the world’s most vulnerable people.
Gifts to this offering underwrite UMCOR’s cost of doing business. That means that 100% of every other gift you make to an UMCOR project will be spent entirely on that project and not on home-office costs. Remember One Great Hour of Sharing is one of the 5 Columns of Mission. Ensure your church builds up this column in 2011.
Join United Methodists everywhere by participating in this special offering that supports UMCOR’s vital work. Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing lay the foundation for UMCOR to seek justice and mercy for suffering people everywhere.
UMCOR is a good steward of God’s gifts. UMCOR’s top ratings by both Charity Navigator and the American Institute of Philanthropy attest to UMCOR’s financial accountability.
Offering gifts over and above those used to cover administrative costs are channeled where they’re most needed. UMCOR’s specialized ministries such as responding in disaster, fighting hunger, alleviating poverty, providing relief supplies around the world and offering hospitality to immigrants and refugees all assist the most vulnerable people whose need is greatest.
Gifts to this fund can be made all year long, so it is not too late.
While One Great Hour of Sharing is traditionally celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, you can choose the date that works best for your church schedule. Offering materials are available throughout the year to support your offering celebration. Visit www.umcgiving.org/oghs for special envelopes, posters and other worship resources online.
NO WORLD SERVICE FUNDS COME TO UMCOR.
UMCOR receives no World Service funds or any other apportionments. Your gifts mean we’re right there with hardworking families, people who are affected by storms or war, disaster or disease.
The One Great Hour of Sharing offering provides essential support to UMCOR. Without this offering, so much of what UMCOR does to bring hope and healing to the world could not happen.
HOW YOUR GIFTS HELP
Most gifts coming to UMCOR have been designated for specific programs – and those programs receive 100% of those gifts. So part of the One Great Hour of Sharing offering plus a small percentage of other general donations support UMCOR’s cost of doing business.
Donations to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering also assist UMCOR programs that have not been fully funded through designated Advance gifts.
Donations from United Methodists donations often become the springboard for additional funding.
The compassion of Jesus makes all things new. As Christians, we’re called to do the same: to offer the hands, the heart and the hope of the church wherever people are suffering. Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing, channeled through UMCOR, enable the church to answer that call.
by Joan Hackett, Conference Secretary, Pacific NW Conference
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