This Christmas, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Rethink Church, Imagine No Malaria and the United Methodist Publishing House are teaming up to reclaim Christmas and provide an alternative means to celebrate the joy of relational giving this season.
This Christmas, cut through the hype that leaves you exhausted at the end of the year and give the best gift you can give: service to others through your time, talents and resources. This Christmas, live simply so others may simply live.
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Health progra with more th ms work inte an 300 Unite rnationally d Methodist clinics. Each hospitals an hospital or c d linic serves a operation fo s a base of r many comm unity health are trained in workers who first aid, san itation, and p By educating reventive ca their neighbo re. rs, UMCOR’s health worke community rs can lower rates of maln maternal and utrition, child mortalit y, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. • $ 10 covers the cost of c ommunity he salary for on alth worker’s e day in Zimb abwe. • $150 can h elp one farm er part to learn new agriculture te icipate in training chniques an food security d improve . • $2,000 con tributes to a Maternal an campaign in d Child Healt Sierra Leone h , which inclu de-worming des vaccine medicine, Vit s, amin A and m • $ 5,000 sup osquito nets ports the con . struction of a Child Health Maternity an Unit at Kissy d United Meth in Sierra Leo odist Hospita ne. l • $ 10,000 ca n support the cost for a he training in pla alth board ces like Uga nda. Global Healt h an UMCOR Adva d Development, nce #3021770
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COR Health w orks through church’s Ima the United M gine No Mala ethodist ria campaign major health to combat issues such as malnutritio child mortalit n, maternal a y, HIV/AIDS, nd and malaria Health impro in Africa. UM ves standard C OR s of care thro based health ugh commun boards that p it y rovide educa medication, tion, training and preventi , ve measures. • $4 support s the cost of one round of medicine in anti-malaria DR Congo. • $200 can su pport the sala ry of one com worker in Afr munity healt ica for one m h onth. • $250 can su pport the fig ht against HIV stop the tran and AIDS an smission of H d IV from moth • $1,500 can er to child. purchase on e motorcycle team membe for a program r to reach iso lated commu Sierra Leone nities in . • $200,000 ca n cover the c ost of distrib donated mosq uting 100,000 uito nets wit h the Ministr in parts of A y of Health frica. Imagine No Malaria, UM COR Advanc ImagineNoM e #3021190 alaria.org
In Times of Crisis—Emergency Relief When disasters strike their impact is usually overwhelming. You can support programs that provide emergency relief through food distribution, temporary shelter, or clean water access. When you give any amount to the UMCOR Undesignated Advance, you help those most in need at their time of need. Undesignated, UMCOR Advance #999895
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“We serve God when we serve others. We give to Jesus when we sacrifice our time, talents, and resources to meet others’ needs in his name.” -Mike Slaughter, p. 57 Christmas Is Not Your Birthday
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