FROM THE FIELD
In Today's Hotline: Read how UMCOR is responding to needs around the world:
PHILIPPINES: VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES WORLDWIDE: 2009 GIFT CATALOG CAMBODIA: TYPHOON KETSANA RELIEF UMCOR: UMCOR DISASTER EXEC AWARDED FOR SOCIAL AWARENESSPHILIPPINES: VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES
UMCOR Philippines volunteers are hard at work purchasing, assembling and packing relief supplies for distribution to about 500 families in the Pililia and Angono, Rizal regions of the Philippines. An additional 1,500 families are scheduled to receive supplies in Talim Island, Binan Laguna, Santa Cruz, Laguna, and Tanay areas.
Volunteer students and faculty members from Union Theological Seminary in Manila, and Philippine Christine University offered their time after class to help UMCOR Philippines assemble supplies. The relief efforts are expected to be long term and students have already committed their time to help out this summer.
The Philippines endured a fourth storm on Oct 31 when Typhoon Santi struck Central Luzon. Volunteers were left without power or water.
Support ongoing relief work in the Philippines with your gifts to Philippines Emergency, UMCOR Advance #240235.
UMCOR's 2009 Gift Catalog is now available! UMCOR's Gift Catalog provides ideas for your gift giving this holiday season. Each item is an example of what your gift can accomplish. One hundred percent of all gifts will go to the listed Advance project.
You can purchase a beekeeping kit for a farmer completing UMCOR training, provide anti-malaria medication for 25 pregnant women with malaria, or provide clean water for 300 people in Sudan.
Download UMCOR's 2009 Christmas List Flyer and share it with others to encourage them to give differently this year. Also download UMCOR's 2009 Christmas Wish List church bulletin and share it with your local congregation or church community.
CAMBODIA: TYPHOON KETSANA RELIEF
UMCOR is assisting the Methodist Mission of Cambodia to provide 10 tons of rice for 15,000 people in eight provinces of Northern Cambodia, who were affected by Typhoon Ketsana, which struck the country in late Sept. About one million people have lost access to food and are in need of relief assistance.
Working through the Methodist Church in Cambodia, Community Health Agriculture Development, and local and non government organizations, UMCOR is helping distribute food to the most vulnerable in Kampong Thom, Banteay Meanchey, Takeo, Svay Rieng, Kampong Cham, Kratie, and Siem Reap provinces, as well as parts of Phnom Penh, which is mostly under water.
Food is desperately needed as thousands of families lost rice, vegetables and other cash crops due to damaging floodwaters. Please give now to International Disaster Response, UMCOR Advance #982450.
UMCOR: UMCOR DISASTER EXEC AWARDED FOR SOCIAL AWARENESS
Tom Hazelwood, UMCOR's US disaster executive, was among three honorees to receive recognition of contributions in the areas of religious education and social awareness from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., during the 25th annual Steel-Hendrix Awards banquet last month.
Tom Hazelwood, a native of Arkansas, received the Ethel K. Millar award for Religion and Social Awareness, in honor of three Hendrix College alumni who distinguished themselves in these fields. Hazelwood, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, serves as the Assistant General Secretary for disaster response in the US for UMCOR.
In 1984, Hendrix College inaugurated the annual Steel-Hendrix Lectureship to celebrate one hundred years of official relationship with the United Methodist Church. It was named in honor of Marshall T. Steel, a prominent minister and former president of the college.
You can support relief efforts in the US, by giving to US Disaster Response, UMCOR Advance #901670.
UMCOR provides emergency relief in many areas of the world. To find out more about UMCOR's ministries, please visit umcor.org. You can donate to any project by placing a contribution in the offering plate at a local United Methodist church; by sending a check to UMCOR, PO Box 9068, New York, NY 10087-9068; or by calling 1-800-554-8583, where credit card donations are accepted. You can also give online at givetomission.org. UMCOR is exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States and qualifies for the maximum charitable contribution deduction by donors.
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