October 18, 2008 Annual turkey dinner –
Woodson Chapel
October 19, 2008 Fall Family Fun Day at
LLC
October 25, 2008 Bible Trivia Night –
Oakland Christian Church
November 1, 2008 Dodge Ball Tournament –
Gower
December 5 & 6 Orrick Homes Tour
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Week of Compassion Updates
Third Quarter Response Fund Report
Greetings from Week of Compassion, and thank
you for your continued support. Your generosity, concern and
prayers bring help and hope to countless people throughout the
world. We are grateful here; many more elsewhere are grateful.
Within the WOC budget, the single largest line
item is the Compassion Response Fund. Through this allocation
(and special designated accounts), WOC is able to respond
promptly to emergencies, disasters and other urgent humanitarian
requests as they arise. Below is a brief summary of responses we
have made through September 30, 2008, from the Response Fund and
certain designated disaster accounts. This, of course, is only a
snapshot and does not include other resources we are providing
for long-term sustainable development projects. But we do hope
it will offer an overview of the many emergency needs to which
we Disciples are responding. Three-quarters of the way through
this year, WOC has provided $1,218,148 in relief and recovery
grants to 216 requests/situations for an average of once every
1.2 days! Thank you for helping make this ministry around the
world, around the year.
AFRICA: [$197,800]
$3,500 - Burkina Faso, floods
$6,000 - Burundi, returnee appeal
$5,000 - Chad, refugee crisis
$3,500 - Congo, medical supplies
$6,000 - Ethiopia, drought
$20,800 - Kenya, civil unrest
$5,000 - Liberia, food aid
$6,000 - Mozambique, floods
$6,000 - Somalia, refugee assistance
$7,500 - South Africa, civil unrest
$106,000 - Sudan, Darfur support
$22,500 - Zimbabwe, flood, hunger crisis
EAST ASIA and the Pacific: [$42,500]
$20,500 - China , winter storm, earthquake
$22,000 - Philippines , typhoons, human rights
LATIN AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN: [$71,500]
$2,000 - Bolivia , floods
$12,000 - Caribbean, hurricanes
$25,500 - Dominican Republic , hurricanes, medical supplies
$18,000 - Haiti , hurricane, hunger crisis
$14,000 - Mexico , floods, emergency housing
MIDDLE EAST and EUROPE: [$40,000]
$6,000 - Bosnia , housing crisis
$10,000 - Iraq , refugee crisis
$6,000 - Georgia, emergency relief
$1,000 - Moldova , floods
$13,000 - Palestine/Gaza, emergency relief
$3,000 - Tajikistan , winter storm appeal
$1,000 - Ukraine , floods
SOUTHERN ASIA: [$306,083]
$9,000 - Bangladesh , cyclone
$191,083 - India , floods tsunami recovery
$21,000 - Indonesia , floods
$80,000 - Myanmar , typhoon
$2,000 - Papua New Guinea , medical supplies
$3,000 - Sri Lanka , civil unrest
GENERAL: [$18,000]
$18,000 - Action by Churches Together Rapid Response Fund
Indonesia, Java/Sumatra floods
Zambia, floods
El Salvador, winter storms
Mozambique, floods
Uganda, Kenyan refugees
Afghanistan, winter freeze
DR Congo, earthquake
Cameroon, Chad refugees
Bolivia, floods
Southern Sudan, civil conflict
South Africa, civil violence
Colombia, earthquake
Sri Lanka, floods
Costa Rica, floods and landslides
India, floods
Philippines, Cyclone Fengshen
Pakistan, floods
Georgia, conflict
India, flash floods
Nepal, floods
Philippines, Mindanao emergency
Ethiopia, Gambella floods
Nepal, floods
DOMESTIC: [$542,265]
$3,500 - Arkansas, tornadoes
$6,000 - Arizona, water emergency
$11,500 - California, wildfire, local mission
$6,500 - Colorado, wildfires, tornadoes
$44,000 - Florida, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes
$22,500 - Illinois, floods
$97,850 - Indiana, floods
$46,000 - Iowa, floods
$6,500 - Kansas, tornadoes, homeless ministry
$3,000 - Kentucky, tornadoes
$41,000 - Louisiana, hurricanes
$1,000 - Michigan, winter storm
$500 - Minnesota, tornadoes
$5,000 - Mississippi, hurricanes
$6,750 - Missouri, floods, church fire
$1,000 - Nebraska, floods
$2,000 - Nevada, floods
$2,665 - New York, refugee pastoral support
$5,500 - Ohio, floods, fire, community food appeal
$3,000 - Oklahoma, church fire, floods
$16,000 - Oregon, winter storms
$10,000 - Tennessee, migrant child appeal, tornadoes
$151,000 - Texas, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes
$500 - Virginia, tornadoes
$6,000 - Washington, fire, floods
$43,000 - U.S. CWS appeals, storms, floods, hurricanes
WOC Map/Poster
Click below for the complete listing of this
week's responses. For a complimentary copy of the map/poster for
your congregation, call the office at 317.713.2442 or send an
e-mail to
ecleveland@woc.disciples.org .
Map for Congregations
Have a Blessed Day,
Jan Shrewsbury
Northwest Area Administrative Assistant
816-632-2237
