{"id":29731,"date":"2022-03-21T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=29731"},"modified":"2022-04-15T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:13:49","slug":"umcor-sunday-to-fund-relief-efforts-3-27-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=29731","title":{"rendered":"UMCOR Sunday to Fund Relief Efforts (3\/27\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently we’re sickened by the ongoing reports of war in Ukraine.\u00a0 Innocent civilians, including children and pregnant women are dying.\u00a0 People are starving and dying for lack of water, shelter, or heat.\u00a0 We want to do something about it, but how?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout the year we hear of floods, tornadoes, or hurricanes that devastate other people’s lives.\u00a0 Sometimes they’re on the other side of the globe, sometimes they’re in our country.\u00a0 But how can we help?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

One of the advantages of being part of a connected church such as the United Methodist Church is that we can pool our resources together to reach any part of the globe and do things that we could never do as individuals.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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UMCOR<\/span><\/h3>\n

One of the opportunities offered by the United Methodist Church is this thing called “UMCOR.”\u00a0 The name isn’t all that inspiring (“United Methodist Committee on Relief”) but the concept is beautiful and powerfully effective.\u00a0 When a disaster strikes, teams\"\"<\/a> organized by UMCOR are “on the ground” almost immediately.\u00a0 Food, building materials, water, transportation or whatever resources that are needed are funded by UMCOR.\u00a0 They go right to the scene of the disaster, roll up their sleeves, and help those who are in desperate need. Beyond providing material resources, UMCOR also serves as ambassadors of God’s love and mercy as they minister to people whose lives have been suddenly turned upside down.<\/p>\n

The money that buys those resources comes from local United Methodists who give to UMCOR for that specific need.\u00a0 Here’s the cool part: there’s no overhead!\u00a0 When you donate to a relief effort, ALL (100%!!!) of your donation goes directly to help the people hit by that disaster.\u00a0 None of your donation goes towards paying staff members, or buying paper, or paying for office space.\u00a0 All of your donation goes right to where the help is needed.<\/p>\n

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UMCOR Sunday<\/span><\/h3>\n

How do they do that???\u00a0 Yes, it does cost money to organize relief efforts.\u00a0 There are a few paid staff professionals.\u00a0 Office space is needed.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s even necessary to buy paper and make photo copies.\u00a0 But when a hurricane, or monsoon, or even a war strikes, none of your donation is used for that stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The “overhead” is paid by a single offering that’s taken during Lent.\u00a0 Once a year, we provide funding for UMCOR’s operation with a special offering taken on “UMCOR Sunday” (long time Methodists might remember the previous name of “One Great Hour of Sharing”).\u00a0 On UMCOR Sunday, we will fund the operation of this special resource so that we can use it to help others throughout the year, whenever disaster strikes.<\/p>\n

On Sunday March 27 we will hold a special offering to fund UMCOR.\u00a0 If you attend in person, special plates will be provided.\u00a0 If you give online, click any “Give<\/a><\/span>” button that’s on this website.\u00a0 Designate your gift to the “UMCOR – BENEVOLANCE” fund.<\/p>\n

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To see more about the work of UMCOR, click this button:\u00a0\u00a0 UMCOR Disaster Relief<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n

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On Sunday March 27 we will take a special offering to support the work of the United Methodist disaster relief agency (called “UMCOR”). UMCOR responds to needs (such as Ukraine) throughout the year. This week’s offering funds all of the “overhead” so that gifts directed to specific relief efforts go entirely towards that relief (without funding any of the “overhead” or administrative costs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evann","category-go-beyond","category-umcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731","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=29731"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29772,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions\/29772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}