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A great way to give gifts that truly keep on giving

Make plans now to participate in Northaven's Alternative Giving Ministry this Christmas. It's a great way to give a gift of real meaning to your friends and loved one this holiday season. The Alternative Giving Program will begin this coming Sunday, December 3rd, and will be available every Sunday during the Advent season. What follows is a brief description of the program, written by our Church in Society Commission.
Why alternative giving?
We want to remember our friends and family during the holiday season of gift giving.
We want to reduce the stress that comes with the frantic build up to the holiday.
We want to reduce material waste and redirect the resources associate with gift giving—shopping, wrapping, gasoline consumption, etc.
We want to give a gift that supports a cause or charity that is making a difference in lives in the larger community.
For the organizations, your generosity represents a wonderful, unsolicited gift to help meet their financial needs and carry out their mission.
How alternative giving works.
Make your list of recipients you wish to honor (e.g. Family, work colleagues, and friends).
From the list of organizations provided in this brochure, select the one that best fits each recipient.
Complete the order form with the contributions listed and submit it with your check made out to Northaven United Methodist Church to the Church in Society Commission volunteers any Sunday in Advent. For each card, please include $1.00 to cover printing costs.
Card selection and your donation
Select a card for each recipient from the two designs created by Joan Hogge for this project.
You then address the cards to your friends with personal notes, if you choose. Each card indicates that you have made a donation to the organization in the recipient’s honor and that this is a project of Northaven UMC.
Early in the new year, Northaven UMC will send your donation to the organizations you select.
All of the contributions will be recorded.
A single check will be mailed to each organization on the list. The names of the honored recipients will be included in the letter to the organization.
All contributions are tax deductible.
Alternative Giving Organizations for 2007
AIDS Interfaith Network – An ecumenical agency providing social services and spiritual guidance to people living with HIV/AIDS, also working to fight the growing incident of AIDS in the greater Dallas community and striving for prevention through public education.
Beca/Godparent Program in María Madre de los Pobres parish in San Salvador, El Salvador. A program of our sister parish to provide elementary and secondary students with medical care and school supplies each year. Godparents support for an elementary aged child (6-13) is $240 per year and $360 for a secondary aged child (14-18).
Christ’s Foundry UMC—our covenant church and a newly formed congregation of mainly Latino immigrants with projected ministries to overcome joblessness, lack of education, violence in their community, and discrimination.
Dallas Peace Center—a non-profit, interfaith organization dedicated to peace education, research and action to build a more peaceful world; publishes the Dallas Peace Times, offers programs for all ages including workshops in Alternatives to Violence and Dismantling Racism.
JoAn Dwyer/San Juan La Laguna—JoAn, a Northaven missionary in Guatemala, is working with two Maya communities near Lake Atitlán. In San Juan La Laguna, the community plans to refurbish an old Methodist church and turn it into a community center and medial clinic. In San Pablo, the community plans to establish a seed bank to provide corn, bean and squash seeds so that local farmers may feed their families.
New Beginnings Center—A residential counseling service and shelter for abused women and their children, located in the Garland area, but serving the greater Dallas community.
North Dallas Shared Ministries—an interfaith agency that serves low income clients by providing job referral services and counseling, a medical clinic as well as emergency food and clothing.
Reconciling Ministries Network—a national organization to advocate for and enable the full participation of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the life of the United Methodist Church.
Inner City Community Development Corporation—a local non-profit agency in south Dallas that strives to create a stable, safe and vibrant south Dallas-Fair Park neighborhood through its programs such as the Housing Resources Center, Business Assistance Center and Youth Entrepreneurship Program.
Wesley-Rankin Center—a multipurpose community center serving the west Dallas area through its various programs for children, families, and seniors.
Wilkinson Center—Located at Munger Place UMC, this agency helps low income families of east Dallas create a better life for themselves.

Posted: Tuesday - November 28, 2006 at 02:51 PM           |

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