{"id":6255,"date":"2015-03-13T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=6255"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:09:01","slug":"one-great-hour-of-sharing-31515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=6255","title":{"rendered":"One Great Hour of Sharing (3\/15\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always hear about UMCOR- The United Methodist Committee on Relief.\u00a0 When there is a tragedy in the world, they quickly jump into achtion and organize funding and relief.\u00a0 All of this important work is done without siphoning any funding from the donations in order to pay for overhead costs.\u00a0 ALL of the donations given to UMCOR for a specific project go dreitly to the relief effort.<\/p>\n<p>How does that work?\u00a0 The committee&#8217;s overhead costs are funded by one annual offering, called &#8220;One Great Hour of Sharing.&#8221;\u00a0 That ofering is on Sunday March 15.\u00a0 Special envelopes are available in the Narthex.<\/p>\n<p>Please help support our church&#8217;s ability to spring into action whenever a disaster occurs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What is UMCOR?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Check out the following video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UMCOR \u2014 75 Years of Hope\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzhWnsWPYg4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a message from Bishop Schol regarding the 75th anniversary of UMCOR&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><div><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,<\/span><\/em>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/em>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> I know you have been reading and hearing about the 75th\u00a0anniversary of UMCOR this Sunday, March 15 at Asbury UMC in Atlantic City. UMCOR was birthed in Atlantic City 75 years ago and we are honored to host the international celebration of UMCOR. Leaders and representatives from across the denomination will be coming to Atlantic City for this special celebration.\u00a0I invite you to do two things this Sunday:<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Send at least one representative from your church to the special worship service at:<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">10 a.m. Sunday, March 15<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Asbury United Methodist Church<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">1213 Pacific Avenue <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Atlantic City, N.J. <\/span><\/em><\/center><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Share the UMCOR 75th\u00a0anniversary video [<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">above<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">] and receive the ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING offering which supports UMCOR. Each church was sent offering envelopes and we invite you to hand them out this weekend and invite people to give.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">UMCOR has been a part of every major disaster in the United States and most disasters around the world. United Methodists are recognized as a leader in helping people because of UMCOR. It is special that we are hosting this celebration and I invite you to share in the celebration through an offering, sharing the video and sending a representative.<\/span><\/em>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Keep the faith!<\/span><\/em>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">John Schol, Bishop<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The United Methodist Church<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Greater New Jersey<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always hear about UMCOR- The United Methodist Committee on Relief.\u00a0 When there is a tragedy in the world, they quickly jump into achtion and organize funding and relief.\u00a0 All of this important work is done without siphoning any funding from the donations in order to pay for overhead costs.\u00a0 ALL of the donations given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[108],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evann","category-go-beyond","tag-specialoffering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","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=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6258,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}