ALTERNATE ADVENT GIVING

Transformational Christmas Gifts

Some ideas for Alternate Christmas Giving, to give “light” at Christmas.  Jesus is Savior of the World.  He came to change us.  We can be transformational too, while we wait.

Haiti Water Plus.  Donations are administered by the Missouri Conference UMC, to place filters in homes in Haiti.

Missouri Annual Conference
Attn: Haiti Clean Water
3601 Amron Ct
Columbia, MO 65202
or give online at http://haitiwaterplus.org/

There are 65 million refugees in the world today.  Today is “Global Migration Sunday,” with donations administered by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).  Make your check payable to ADVANCE GCFA. Write the name of this offering (Global Migration Sunday) and the Advance code number (#3022144) on the memo line of the check.  Or donate directly at www.umcor.org.

Rainbow Network may be the most efficiently run charity and served 144 locations and 44,000 people in Nicaragua.  For $30 a month, $60 a year, you can provide a fully funded high school education.

The Rainbow Network
2840 E Chestnut Expressway
Suite A
Springfield, MO 65802
or give online at www.rainbownetwork.org.

Central Asia Institute focuses on education, especially for girls, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.  If we want to solve the problem of extreme terrorism in this century we need to education Muslim girls.

Central Asia Institute
PO Box 7209
Bozeman, MT 59771
or give online at www.centralasiainstitute.org