December 27, 2004 The United Methodist Committee on
Relief is responding
through its ecumenical partners to the catastrophe in South Asia. On Sunday,
December 26, a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the west coast of the
northern Indonesian island of Sumatra caused tidal waves that have so far
claimed the lives of more than 22,000 people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India,
Thailand, Malaysia, Maldives and Bangladesh, according to news reports.
Thousands of people are still missing and tens of thousands of people have been
displaced. The full extent of the disaster is still not known in more remote
areas in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia, where ecumenical partners are
responding.
Please give to Advance #274305 and
designate "South Asia Emergency" on the memo line of your check. Give
through your local United Methodist church or mail contributions to: UMCOR, 475
Riverside Dr., Room 330, New York, NY 10115. Call 1-800-554-8583 to make a
credit card donation. One hundred percent of your gift goes to relief and
recovery efforts. United Methodists' generous giving to the One Great Hour of
Sharing, part of their on going contribution to mission around the world,
supplements the cost of Advance gifts.
Rev. J. Fay Cleveland |
