Stories & Vignettes: One Great Hour of Sharing

The following resources may be used as a part of your promotion of the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering (OGHS) for UMCOR.

• Banking on the Future
  A Story from Ghana
  By Jethro Pettit, Director of International Programs for World Neighbors
• A Crack in the Repression: Afghan Women Register to Vote, Signal Optimism
  A Story from Kabul, Afghanistan
• God's Touch After a Tornado
  A Story from Tennessee
  By Anita Kay Archer, First United Methodist Church, Jackson, Tennessee
• God Uses All Gifts for Big Purposes
  Several Vignettes
  By Linda Beher, UMCOR
• Surviving the Winter after the Earthquakes
  A Story from Turkey
  By Beverly Bartlett, former UMCOR staff
• More UMCOR Stories
  Feature Stories About UMCOR's Work Around the World

About the One Great Hour of Sharing and UMCOR

One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) is observed by United Methodists on the fourth Sunday in Lent but you can give all year around. The OGHS offering supports ongoing work of the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing allow UMCOR to work efficiently and effectively in disaster response, hunger and poverty ministries, and refugee ministries around the world. UMCOR does not receive support from World Service. Give generously in thanks for all that God has given you.

Choose one of the following four ways to order your free One Great Hour of Sharing resources:

1. Complete and mail the order form that was sent to pastors in September/October (Send to Customer Service Team, United Methodist Communications, P.O. Box 320, Nashville, TN 37202-9907.)
2. Fax order to 1-615-742-5499.
3. Call toll free 1-888-346-3862.
4. Go online at Resources for OHGS 2006