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 <http://www.umcmission.org/Learn-About-Us/News-and-Stories/2013/October/1015 -UMC-GivingTuesday-Promises-to-Multiply-Impact> #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 . http://www.umcmission.org/Give-to-Mission/Search-for-Projects/Advance-Projec t-Search Contact me if you have questions. Sincerely, Lynda and John Cock 336-790-5020