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Through Week of Compassion, North American Disciples reach out in the name of Christ to:

• provide emergency and long-term assistance to people in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, droughts, civil war and other natural and human catastrophes. In a typical year WOC responds to a disaster about once every two days.
• respond with help, hope and hospitality to people who have been uprooted and displaced from their homelands by war, environmental catastrophe, famine and natural disaster. Many of the world’s 25 million refugees are children.
• support self-help programs of development and rehabilitation that empower people and communities to stand against and rise above hunger, poverty, disease, illiteracy, and other forces of injustice that deny and destroy human dignity. WOC supports projects in more than 80 nations on every inhabitable continent of the earth.
• encourage and support volunteer groups in "hands-on" mission and service opportunities. Annually, WOC partners with more than 50 Disciples work groups in mission projects in North America and abroad.

MCEF MECHANICSVILLE CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUNCTIONS Mechanicsville Churches working together to help meet the needs in our community P.O. Box 604 Mechanicsville, VA  23111   Monthly meetings - 2nd Monday of each Month at 7:00 p.m Trinity Christian Church (DOC)

  Disciples Mission Fund is a ministry of money that links congregations, regions, institutions of higher education and general units in the mission of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). This ministry is a faithful witness of receiving, caring and giving in Christian community.

Disciples Mission Fund receives contributions from more than 2,800 Disciples congregations to support the worldwide mission of the church. Our ministry in your community and to the world is important. Thousands of lives are changed daily because of Disciples generosity. The General Board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) encourages congregations to place a line item in their budgets for Disciples Mission Fund. Congregations provide opportunities to individuals to share their abundance in over-and-above giving through Special Offerings received at Easter, Pentecost, Thanksgiving and Christmas. These four Special Offerings are designated Disciples Mission Fund giving:

EASTER – for general ministries implementation of Disciples Imperative to strengthen congregational life.

PENTECOST – for new church development, divided equally between the region in which the offering is received and general new church ministry.

THANKSGIVING – for higher education institutions who are responsible for the theological education of the church’s leaders.

CHRISTMAS – for regional ministries in the region where the funds are contributed for implementation of the church’s imperative: “To strengthen congregational life for this mission.”

Our Mission as Disciples is “to be and to share the Good News of Jesus Christ, witnessing, loving and serving from our doorsteps to the ends of the Earth” (Acts 1:8).

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Last Updated:  July 8, 2008