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Your Generous Gifts Provide:
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World Communion Scholarships (General Board of Global Ministries), with at least one-half of the annual amount for ministries beyond the United States;
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“I want to be a pastor with a global focus and also pursue opportunities to serve in missions and advocacy within The United Methodist Church.”
In 1975, 6-year-old Julie Fleurinor and her family fled Haiti for Miami, along with thousands of other refugees escaping oppression and poverty. Today, thanks to a World Communion Scholarship, she dreams of returning home someday to bring healing and hope to her beloved but beleaguered native land.
Remarkably, Fleurinor is earning two master’s degrees: one in divinity from United Methodist-related Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., and one in social work from Loyola University in Chicago.
She plans to use her training to provide holistic ministry—spiritual and social—to struggling communities in both the United States and Haiti.
“I want to be a pastor with a global focus on missions and advocacy,” says Fleurinor, now a member of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference. She is passionate about helping Haitian-American immigrants and supporting Haiti’s recovery from its devastating 2010 earthquake that claimed 300,000 lives.
Fleurinor says the World Communion Scholarship is a blessing for which she prayed fervently because of the high cost of seminary education. “I’m really thankful for it.”
Your gifts to the World Communion Sunday offering equip racial- and ethnic-minority students in the United States and international students to transform the church and communities.
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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.
