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A Dime A Day
Maritime Conference people
are generous!
We give to the :
United Way
Salvation Army
Canadian Cancer Society
Diabetes Association
Heart & Stroke Foundation
Hospital Foundations
World Vision
And many others!
People already give
in so many ways!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!
Churches and UCW’s
Already Give
United Church people give to:
United for Peace
Community Outreach Projects
People in need in their own areas.
Foodbanks
Social Service Agencies
Individuals who are in need
Seniors’ homes
Special Projects
Out of the Cold Programs
Providing free or nearly free space to other
organizations: like Weight Watcher’s, AA,
Mother’s and Tots
Giving to clothing drives, supporting shelters
etc.
United Church People Are
Generous!!!!!!!
Thank You!!!!
How many of these
projects are wrong???
None!
All of these projects more or less are
our Christian response to the
Biblical call to clothe the naked and
feed the hungry.
Matthew 25: 34-36
The United Church Response
The Mission & Service Fund!
We fund programs in all of these areas:
Feeding the hungry
Visiting the sick and imprisoned
Clothing the naked
Sheltering the homeless
Support and advocacy
Supporting Chaplaincies
Supporting First Nation’s Ministries
Supporting projects and ecumenical
partnerships around the world
Financing Church Transformational Projects
funding theological Schools
funding ecumenical endeavours
providing General Council and Conference
staff to assist with congregational programs
We provide all these services and more
with your financial support of the:
Mission and Service
Fund
Thank You!!!!!!
Where does your money go?
Your generosity supports
ministry and mission in every
presbytery!
In Maritime Conference
Last year we provided support to:
 Christian Council for
Reconciliation
 Karing Kitchen
 Brunswick Street
Mission
 Aboriginal Peace & Friendship
Project (Tatamagouche Centre)
 Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking
the Silence Network Co-ordinator
 CQS Care Centres
 Coverdale
 Campus Ministries
 Hospital Chaplaincies
 Pastoral Charges
 Transformational
ministry initiatives
We did all this
with the $335,000
provided for us
in Mission Support Grants
This Mission Support
grant money is
provided to
Maritime Conference
through your financial support of
the Mission and Service Fund.
Thank You!!!!!!
Our Challenge
Since 1988
givings to the
Mission and Service Fund
have remained steady at
$30,000,000
Since 1988, prices and salaries have
gone up substantially:
What cost $100 in 1988
Now costs
$161.73
That means if you gave
$100 in today’s money to the
Mission and Service Fund
It would be worth only
$61.83 in 1988 dollars
$30,000,000 of today’s dollars
does not compare to the 30 Million
dollars given in 1988. In fact it is only
worth $18.55 Million.
Inflation has eaten away the rest.
This means that it is
harder and harder to
support the important
ministries in Maritime Conference,
Canada and the world.
We already know
that you are a
generous people
We know that
the present economic
climate is uncertain.
In these tough economic
times, we are not asking
people to break their bank.
When organizations come
to your door asking
for donations
Please be generous
but please don’t forget
The Mission and Service Fund
The goal for 2010
for the Mission and
Service Fund is
$30,200,000.
We can only achieve
these goals if
we work together
A special project idea
from our friends in
Hamilton Conference.
What possibly can one
small dime do?
A dime buys enough gas to travel 1 kilometre.
A dime might buy two pieces of penny
candy.
Not much!!!!!
If every member of Maritime Conference
Redirected 10 cents of their charitable givings
To the Mission and Service Fund
Every day for a year.
That’s just ten
pennies… every day…
That would mean that
each member would
give an extra
$36.50 a year
to the
Mission and Service Fund.
That’s less than
the price of one full tank of gas
per year.
If all 85,000 plus
members of Maritime
Conference gave an
extra dime a day to
the Mission and Service Fund
Then we, in Maritime Conference,
would collect an extra
$3,102,500 million dollars
in M&S money
every year.
Remember:
We are not asking you to
break the bank.
We are asking you to
remember the power of
one dime a day.
Join Us.
Together we can do so much.
Pledge to give an extra dime
every day to
the Mission and Service Fund.
Remember…
The Mission and Service Fund
Renew…
Our commitment
Rejoice!
In the difference that we
make in people’s lives!
Thank You!