Alternative Christmas Giving 2007
Northaven in the World
Why alternative
giving?
We want to celebrate and honor the ministry of Jesus Christ in the world during the Advent and Christmas season.
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 holidays.
We want to reduce material waste and redirect the resources associated with consumerism—shopping, gift 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 gift
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 contribution 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
AIDS Interfaith Network –- an ecumenical agency providing social services and spiritual guidance to people living with HIV/AIDS, also working to reduce the growing incident of AIDS in the greater Dallas community and striving for prevention through public education.
Beca/Godparent Program -– a program of our sister parish to provide elementary and secondary students with medical care and school supplies each year in María Madre de los Pobres parish in San Salvador, El Salvador. Godparents support for an elementary aged child (6-13) is $240 per year and $360 for a secondary aged child (14-18).
Central Dallas Community Development Corporation ("CDCDC") --- a project of Central Dallas Ministries, promotes affordable housing initiatives. The CDCDC has its own 501 (c) (3) status from the IRS and has CHDO status from the City of Dallas. Currently operating more than 40 units of housing, the CDCDC has plans to develop more than 400 more units in the coming years (including 209 units in Downtown Dallas).
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.
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Inc. — a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of international human rights through local service to refugees and immigrants who have suffered human rights abuses.
JoAn Dwyer/ODIM — as a Northaven missionary in Guatemala, JoAn directs ODIM (Organization for the Development of the Indigenous Maya). ODIM is comprised exclusively of volunteers who donate their time to the betterment of indigenous life around Lake Atitlán, in the department of Sololá. The organization is based on the philosophy of an interdependent relationship with the Maya.
New Beginning 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.
Wesley-Rankin Center — a multipurpose community center serving the west Dallas area through its various programs for children, families, and seniors.
Wilkinson Center — an agency that helps low income families of east Dallas create a better life for themselves. Located at Munger UMC, the Wilkinson Center provides job counseling, emergency food and clothing, child care and general referral support.
We want to celebrate and honor the ministry of Jesus Christ in the world during the Advent and Christmas season.
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 holidays.
We want to reduce material waste and redirect the resources associated with consumerism—shopping, gift 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 gift
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 contribution 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
AIDS Interfaith Network –- an ecumenical agency providing social services and spiritual guidance to people living with HIV/AIDS, also working to reduce the growing incident of AIDS in the greater Dallas community and striving for prevention through public education.
Beca/Godparent Program -– a program of our sister parish to provide elementary and secondary students with medical care and school supplies each year in María Madre de los Pobres parish in San Salvador, El Salvador. Godparents support for an elementary aged child (6-13) is $240 per year and $360 for a secondary aged child (14-18).
Central Dallas Community Development Corporation ("CDCDC") --- a project of Central Dallas Ministries, promotes affordable housing initiatives. The CDCDC has its own 501 (c) (3) status from the IRS and has CHDO status from the City of Dallas. Currently operating more than 40 units of housing, the CDCDC has plans to develop more than 400 more units in the coming years (including 209 units in Downtown Dallas).
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.
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Inc. — a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of international human rights through local service to refugees and immigrants who have suffered human rights abuses.
JoAn Dwyer/ODIM — as a Northaven missionary in Guatemala, JoAn directs ODIM (Organization for the Development of the Indigenous Maya). ODIM is comprised exclusively of volunteers who donate their time to the betterment of indigenous life around Lake Atitlán, in the department of Sololá. The organization is based on the philosophy of an interdependent relationship with the Maya.
New Beginning 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.
Wesley-Rankin Center — a multipurpose community center serving the west Dallas area through its various programs for children, families, and seniors.
Wilkinson Center — an agency that helps low income families of east Dallas create a better life for themselves. Located at Munger UMC, the Wilkinson Center provides job counseling, emergency food and clothing, child care and general referral support.
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