Remind your
Methodist friends. This is a letter I sent to some of my Methodist
connections. It also keeps ICA in their minds.
Dear Friends and
Family,
If your mail box is
like mine and has been filled with ads for Black Friday and Cyber Monday,
it seems in keeping with the Reason for the
Season that we
should also focus attention on Giving Tuesday. The United Methodist Church's
Advanced Specials is an avenue to do
that.
One of the Advanced
Specials that John and I have direct connection with is the
Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS program, a program initiated by and
developed by
colleagues from the Institute of Cultural Affairs, the organization that we
continue to work with. First Methodist, Cleveland, has
photos and more
detailed descriptions of the project visits made by colleagues this past
summer. I would be willing to give a program at your church to a
circle
or Sunday School
class on this work sometime in the future as my back permits more travel. This
program is approved from 2013-2015.
“The
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries is participating
in UMC #GivingTuesday on December 3,
2013. Gifts made online through The Advance on UMC #GivingTuesday
will be matched dollar for dollar, meaning that 200 percent of every
donation through your Advance number on December 3 will directly go to impact the
ministry."
Please take a
few minutes to consider a gift, large or small, whose value will be
increased by this generous doubling. Help Zimbabwe to begin to
deal with this massive
epidemic that
has cost their country so heavily with infant mortalities, premature deaths of
millions of women and men, and the highest number of orphans in the
world
in proportion
to a country its size.
Go to the
website and designate “Zimbabwe HIV-AIDS”
project. The Advance # for this project is 3021529.
Gifts may be
designated as honor or memorial gifts. Donations may be made from midnight
tonight until midnight tomorrow night. A gift from Dad's estate to the
FUMC in Cleveland, TN went toward this mission
project .
Contact me if you
have questions.
Sincerely,
Lynda and John
Cock
336-790-5020