PTCA Challenges Churches to Give to Help Haiti
Have you been wondering about the best way you and your congregation can support the emergency relief that is so desperately needed in Haiti after the devastating 7.0 earthquake of January 12? The Mission and Witness Committee is challenging our congregations and other individuals to join our drive as a Presbytery to collect $1 from every person represented in the membership of our churches and clergy in the PTCA. All of this special offering will be donated directly to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
The Presbytery of South Alabama has set a goal of $10,000.00 and challenged other Presbyteries to match them. Our goal is to raise $25,000 thru March 13th, our next Presbytery meeting. So far the Presbytery office has received $5300 in gifts for Haiti. In addition the Mission and Witness Committee granted $2000 to the special Offering for Haiti.
All donations can be sent directly to the Presbytery Office at 122 W. Franklin Ave. , Suite 508, Minneapolis, MN 55404 and should indicate Haiti Offering in the memo line. If your congregation has already responded with a gift of some sort, possibly through another agency, please let us know in the Presbytery office so that we may report the extent of our gifts to one another. Please email the Presbytery office at communications@ptcaweb.org and let us know other creative ways your congregation and members have reached out with loving support to our dear friends in this time of extreme need.
It was reported that the first night in complete darkness, the people of Port-Au-Prince raised their voices singing hymns to ward off their fears and help them through the night. We have much to learn from the strong faith of these sisters and brothers. And we each have much to give. Let us demonstrate Christ’s compassion through this opportunity to make an impact for good on a people who have been forced into long-suffering and grief.
The Staff of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area and the Mission and Witness Committee (Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area)
