Good Friday Offering

Although this bulletin insert from the Episcopal Church Center was for the eighith Sunday after Epiphany (February 27), we put it in this Sunday's bulletin since Good Friday is this Friday.

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Excerpt From a Message From the Presiding Bishop

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:

For almost a century, the Good Friday Offering has been a source of support, love, and hope for our brothers and sisters in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. … This offering expresses our own commitment to seek and serve Christ in all persons and to walk with the church of the Middle East as they continue to work toward justice, reconciliation, and peace. Through our prayers for and support of these churches we are helping to realize God’s vision of shalom. … Please join with me in giving thanks for the work of the Good Friday Offering by generously sharing the gifts we have been given with our sisters and brothers throughout the Middle East.

I remain, Your servant in Christ,

Katharine Jefferts Schori

(To read the complete letter , see http://www.episcopalchurch.org/110049_126699_ENG_HTM.htm.)

Some of the projects funded by the 2010 Good Friday Offering include:

• St. Peter’s Elderly Home in BirZeit, which offers housing for elderly Christians


• St. Andrew’s Day Care Center in Ramallah, a new clinic for diabetic cardio treatment


• St. Andrew’s Housing Project for Young Christian Couples, which helps young couples afford apartments


• Needy families on the West Bank


• Ras Morbat Clinic in Aden, Yemen, which provides unlimited access to basic health services in a low-income area


• Scholarships for religious education for Christian children (who represent only 1 percent of the population)

Collected funds can be sent in the form of a check, payable to “The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society” (please write “Good Friday Offering” in the memo line of the check) to:Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society Good Friday Offering PO Box 12095Newark, NJ 07101For more information contact the Rev. David Copley(800) 334-7626, ext. 5461; dcopley@episcopalchurch.org.

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