Your Generous Gifts assists:
- Community Developers Program, related to the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM);
- United Methodist Voluntary Services Program, GBGM; and
- Youth Offender Rehabilitation Program, General Board of Church and Society.
—LINDSAY UHLINGER, Seminar Participant, Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.
YOUR GIFT MAKES CHANGE POSSIBLE
Because of a Human Relations Day grant, United Methodists of all ages travel to Washington, D.C., where about 30 seminars on national and international affairs per year take place at the United Methodist building across from the U.S. Capitol.
The high-impact seminars date back more than half a century with luminaries such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Hubert Humphrey. The sessions empower and equip participants to put their faith together with action steps to change their world.
VIGILANT VOICES SPEAK OUT.
After each group chooses a topic — poverty and homelessness, human trafficking, immigration, environmental justice — seminar designer Susan Burton tailors a unique learning experience.
"The program," she said," offers us the opportunity to increase our knowledge of ourselves and our faith, increase our knowledge of injustices impacting our brothers and sisters in our own communities and throughout the world, and identify new ways to use our voices — staying awake and keeping watch."
Prayer of Thanksgiving for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gracious God, you create us and love us; you make us to live together in a community.
We thank you for Martin Luther King, Jr. and all your children who have been filled with your vision for our lives and who have worked to make bring your vision into reality.
Fill us with your vision.
Guide us to live by your vision, working to build the beloved community where everyone is welcomed, all are valued, power is shared, privilege is no more, and all your children know wholeness and well-being.
Through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.