Our pastors received this in an email recently. Our annual OGHS offering will be received this weekend.
Dear Julia & Rev. Jim,
You can change thousands of lives this Sunday by generously supporting the One Great Hour of Sharing offering.
Your previous giving to OGHS made it possible for the United Church of Christ to immediately provide clean water, food and medicines to our partners in Haiti and Chile following the recent earthquakes. A portion of the offering is always set aside for immediate disaster response.
Your gifts are also building schools and providing education for children from poor families in Laos.
Your giving equips a network of community health facilitators in Chile and missionary doctors in India, East Timor and Haiti for ministries of healing.
Your giving enables women in Egypt, Zimbabwe, Bosnia, and Ecuador to receive micro-credit loans, start small businesses and provide for their families.
Each day, around the world, One Great Hour of Sharing gifts are at work changing lives. See how by watching the new OGHS video.
Please give generously to the 2010 OGHS Offering through your local congregation or make a secure on-line donation.
Grace and Peace,
Susan M. Sanders
UCC Minister for Global Sharing of Resources
www.ucc.org/oghs
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