The following matrix are the collection and drop-off points for the Haiti response efforts as provided by the district offices and the district mission secretaries.
For further or more detailed information, please contact your district mission secretary or your district office.
Please read the NC Conference Response Plan for Hait Disaster: Hope With Haiti
AGAPE Sunday is January 3, 2010. A bulletin insert is available for downloading. Let’s celebrate and support this special ministry.
As relief workers determine the long term effects of the West Sumatra earthquake which killed 704 people, and as thousands of people in the Philippines learn to cope in overcrowded and unsanitary evacuation centers, UMCOR is hard at work helping survivors affected by disasters in the Philippines, the South Pacific, and Indonesia by providing them with the most basic needs.
UMCOR’s field offices are bringing relief to affected communities, and are working to develop long-term recovery plans to assist in rebuilding. Gifts to these disaster-hit areas are needed. Please give to Pacific Earthquakes & Tsunamis UMCOR Advance #982450; Indonesia Emergency UMCOR Advance #217400; and Philippines Emergency, UMCOR Advance #240235.
The Church and Community Center, serving the one of the most impoverished counties in our state, deeply needs your support. During the fall of each year, due to the structure of many of the grants under which the RCC&CC runs, the Center enters a period of a funds flow shortfall. Because the Center moves such a great percentage of its resource into the community, the RCC&CC relies on your generous partnership to operate through this period of shortfall.
Thus, RCC&CC urgently needs generous gifts at this moment. Due to generous support, the Center has improved its fiscal standing over the past year. Please continue to support this critical ministry and if possible, make a gift now. Please mail your check directly to the Church and Community Center at: Robeson County Church and Community Center, 600 West 5th Street, Lumberton, NC 28358 or you can make a donation through your local church offering. Please note on the check: Robeson County Church and Community Center – Advance #791742. For more information please contact 910-738-5204 or email: rccccdir@ncrrbiz.com.
UMCOR continues to work in Sudan, named as the worse humanitarian disaster of the 21st century. Over 400,000 people are estimated to have been killed in fighting and over 2 million people are displaced. UMCOR works in Darfur and other areas bringing agriculture extension, emergency supply distribution, and small-scale livelihoods. UMCOR also works with a coalition of other humanitarian organizations to provide assistance to Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighboring countries. Please consider a gift to this important ministry which can be given through the local church Sunday offering by denoting on the gift: Sudan Emergency Advance # 184385. For more information and online giving, go to Sudan Emergency.
For those interested in applying for 2010 Mission Seed Funds, applications are due to the Office of Mission and Justice Ministries no later than Oct. 31. Please send applications, budgets, and cover letters electronically to Kathy at kreavis@nccumc.org. Materials can be downloaded at: Mission Seed Funds. If you have questions, please contact the Office of Mission and Justice Ministries, 800-849-4433 ext 256 or kreavis@nccumc.org or staylor@nccumc.org.
We have uploaded the applications for 2010 Mission Seed Funds as well as the budget form, guidelines and final report. This year there are two applications; one for $1000 and under, and the other for applications over $1000. You can find these documents and other information about Mission Seed Funds on the Mission Seed Funds page.
Bulletin inserts for Golden Cross Sunday are available for download. Feel free to use them for promotion of this special ministry. To find out more information about Golden Cross and download the insert, go to the Golden Cross page.
Dr. Reggie Ponder has made his excellent presentation available from Annual Conference. Read the rest of this entry »
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