SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Youth and adults are responding to the needs of African
children.
Working toward Bishop J. Lawrence McCleskey’s challenge to raise $75,000 for
Hope for the Children of Africa, South Carolina United Methodists have responded
with open wallets.
On the last day of Annual Conference, children and youth collected an offering of
more than $58,000 – an amount that doesn’t include other money
collected. McCleskey asked all churches in the S.C. Annual Conference to hold a
special offering before the 1999 session of the annual conference met.
Hope for the Children of Africa is an initiative started by the United Methodist Council
of Bishops.
Its goal is to rebuild institutions that directly effect children, including children’s homes
and schools that were destroyed in the multiple civil wars in Africa.
During the 1999 session of Annual Conference, Bishop Emilio J. M. de Carvalho of
the Western Angolan Area said Africa’s children suffer from many problems because
many are orphans or abandoned.
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