DON'T FORGET:

Human Relations Day Sunday, January 17, 2010

NURTURE. ADVOCATE. GIVE.

Maudine Holloway, executive director of Community Enabler Developer Inc., Anniston, Ala., is deeply involved in the self-improvement activities of the people she serves. Distributing everything from beans to baby formula, Maudine makes sure her struggling neighbors have a meal, a change of clothes, assistance paying a utility bill, medicine and a safe after-school place for children. “These are critical times for the church to be alive in the community,” she asserts. “We are trying to help people see Jesus.”

Because of your offering on Human Relations Day, caring ministries continue—providing childcare, after-school tutoring, gang intervention, work with at-risk teens, outreach with current and former prison inmates, homeless services, emergency aid, jobs training and more.

Sadly, gifts to the 2009 Human Relations Day offering lagged behind contributions for the same period in 2008—by more than 20%. Yet, the needs have not gone away. In fact, they are increasing as Maudine Holloway’s neighbors, at-risk youth in Oklahoma and hurting people across the United States continue to suffer.

Please give your congregation an opportunity to “give themselves unreservedly to God” through
Human Relations Day. To order 2010 resources, go online to umcgiving.org/HRD or call toll free (888) 346-3862.

For stories of how United Methodists share Christ’s love through Human Relations Day,
click here.

“THEY HAD FIRST GIVEN THEMSELVES UNRESERVEDLY TO GOD AND TO US. THE OTHER GIVING SIMPLY FLOWED OUT OF THE PURPOSES OF GOD WORKING IN THEIR LIVES.” --2 CORINTHIANS 8:5B, THE MESSAGE

DONATE NOW!!

GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!

Miss Lladale Carey

Web Producer

UMCGiving.org

United Methodist Communications