Around the world, millions of people lack access to sustainable food sources, clean water, sanitation, education, and opportunity. The three programs supported by One Great Hour of Sharing — Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, the Presbyterian Hunger Program, and Self-Development of People…
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Share Your Bread with the Hungry
GRANDMOTHER OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO FARM THE LAND THAT FEEDS THE CHILDREN IN HER CARE Through your One Great Hour of Sharing gifts, Christ’s concern for “the least of these” is being expressed and lives are being transformed. Let us pray:…
Loose the Bonds of Injustice
THE FRONT PORCH CAFÉ SERVES AS AN ENTRY WAY TO HOPE AND TRANSFORMATION Your One Great Hour of Sharing gifts help people move themselves from the depths of despair toward vistas of hope. Please give generously. Let us pray: Transforming…
Restore Streets to Live in
PRESBYTERIAN DISASTER ASSISTANCE RESPONDS QUICKLY TO HURRICANE RAVAGED PUERTO RICO Let us pray: Gracious God, we pray for the survivors of disasters. Comfort them as they struggle with unspeakable grief and the monumental task of rebuilding their lives. Help us…
This is Church
Have you ever taught a child to fold their fingers inside their hands and say the rhyme, “here is the church, here is the steeple, open the doors and see all the people?” The wiggling fingers teach children, and adults,…
Gifts at Work
YOUR GIVING REPAIRS THE BREACHES THAT SEPARATE PEOPLE FROM LIVES OF WHOLENESS. In places far and near, your One Great Hour of Sharing gifts repair breaches that pierce the wholeness that God wants for everyone. Please give generously. Let us…
Our Offerings at Work (SDOP)
SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE (SDOP) The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People continues to work with low-income communities across the United States to overcome oppression and injustice. In 2017, National SDOP entered into partnerships with the projects below. Projects focused…
Our Offerings at Work (PHP)
PRESBYTERIAN HUNGER PROGRAM (PHP) PHP works to alleviate hunger and eliminate its root causes. As a part of this mission, PHP gave over 160 grants totaling more than $1.2 million, impacting communities across the United States and 37 other countries…
Our Offerings at Work (PDA)
PRESBYTERIAN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (PDA) Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is the emergency and refugee program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It enables our congregations and mission partners to witness to the healing love of Christ through caring for communities adversely affected…
The Christmas Joy Offering helps form future leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Their student days may have been a generation apart, but both Lemuel Garcia-Arroyo and his nephew Jasiel Hernandez found the Presbyterian Pan American School (Pan Am) to be an incubator for Christian leadership in their lives. Lemuel, now Associate Director…
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