{"id":1186,"date":"2014-03-22T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-03-29T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T01:28:33","slug":"one-great-hour-of-sharing-funds-umcor-33014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"One Great Hour of Sharing Funds UMCOR (3\/30\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of UMCOR.\u00a0 When terrible things happen in the world like floods and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/UMCORlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1187 alignright\" alt=\"UMCORlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/UMCORlogo.png\" width=\"155\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>earthquakes, the United Methodist Committee on Relief moves in.\u00a0 UMCOR is the arm of our church that reaches out to people in distress.\u00a0 And, it&#8217;s fully funded by the United Methodist Church.\u00a0 Any donations we give towards a particular UMCOR project go directly to that project.\u00a0 100%.\u00a0 There are no overhead costs.<\/p>\n<p>So how are the costs &#8220;of doing business&#8221; covered?\u00a0 When a disaster hits, how can UMCOR use ALL of its donations for relief and send it directly to those in need without paying anything for things like office supplies?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is this thing called &#8220;One Great Hour of Sharing.&#8221;\u00a0 Once a year (this year it&#8217;s on March 30), a special offering is taken to fund UMCOR.\u00a0 Without these funds, they wouldn&#8217;t be able to dedicate 100% of project donations toward disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>Disasters will strike at some time within the next year.\u00a0 And when they do, we&#8217;ll hear about UMCOR and how &#8220;every penny we donate will provide relief to the people in ___&#8221;.\u00a0 In order for that to happen, we need to support One Great Hour of Sharing.\u00a0\u00a0 Mark the date and prayerfully consider how you can help to keep this ministry effective.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about UMCOR, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umcor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\">Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of UMCOR.\u00a0 When terrible things happen in the world like floods and earthquakes, the United Methodist Committee on Relief moves in.\u00a0 UMCOR is the arm of our church that reaches out to people in distress.\u00a0 And, it&#8217;s fully funded by the United Methodist Church.\u00a0 Any donations we give towards a particular UMCOR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evann","category-go-beyond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}