Please Join with me, along with New Day UMC in welcoming Leia Williams, Conference Field Coordinator for "Imagine No Malaria", on Sunday, Sept. 18th at New Day UMC in Big Lake
Can you believe it? Churches from around the Minnesota Annual Conference have rallied to support Imagine No Malaria. Even in the midst of summer vacation, churches have already officially pledged over $100,000 to save more than 10,000 lives.
This was made possible by only 11 churches! Can you imagine what will happen once people return from the lake and are back to church attendance and involvement? We are well on our way to saving 180,000 lives or more!
To increase the incentives for significant commitments to Imagine No Malaria, the major donors who initially granted the conference a $600,000 matching gift decided this week to direct their match to churches that set goals to save 10 lives per average worship attendee. The match is dollar to dollar in 2011.
This means that all churches that set a goal to save 10 lives per attendee, complete a goal pledge form, and send it to the conference office by the end of 2011 will actually be saving 20 lives per average attendee!
The fun begins at 10:45am! Come and be a part of the United Methodist commitment to save lives, especially the lives of those who are most vulnerable.
Please contact New Day if you would like more information, and you can learn more about Imagine No Malaria by visiting www.minnesotaumc.org and clicking the Imagine No Malaria logo. You’ll find informational links and downloadable resources.
Have an awesome week, and be sure not to miss this awesome event!
Peace, Lauren
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