One Great Hour of Sharing
Special Offering of the Presbyterian Church USA
In this season of Lent, we follow Jesus’ example and walk alongside the most vulnerable to partner in repairing harms inflicted upon them. Each gift represents our step to improve the lives of God’s beloved community members.
Typically received during the season of Lent, each gift to One Great Hour of Sharing supports efforts to relieve hunger through the Presbyterian Hunger Program, promote development through the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People, and assist in areas of disaster through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. All three programs work in different ways to serve individuals and communities in need. From initial disaster response to ongoing community development, their work fits together to provide people with safety, sustenance, and hope.
One Great Hour of Sharing is the single, largest way that Presbyterians come together every year to work for a better world. Our donations are distributed to three branches of Presbyterian witness, each of which receives about 30% of the funds: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA); Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP); and Self-Development of People (SDOP).
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance works alongside communities as they recover and find help after the devastation of natural or human-caused disasters and support for refugees.
- Supporting the eradication of poverty through grants to vulnerable populations.
- Working to end systemic racism through centering Black, indigenous and communities of color and refugees in its grant-making.
- Promoting congregational vitality through volunteer work teams, Story Ministry, spiritual and emotional care for pastors and grants to help congregations respond in their own communities.
- Addressing climate change, militarism and other forms of oppression.
Presbyterian Hunger Program takes action to alleviate hunger, care for creation, and the systemic causes of poverty so all can be fed.
- Working so that people have sufficient money, seeds, land, water, equipment, and training to feed themselves and their families and making sure that everyone in the food production process is treated fairly.
- Working in solidarity with vulnerable communities to change unfair structures and to pass more just policies around wages, labor, trade, housing and job opportunities.
- Caring for creation to assure a more livable environment by addressing pollution, extraction and harm done to the environment that significantly worsen social and economic conditions for people who are hungry.
Self-Development of People invests in communities responding to their experiences of oppression, poverty, and injustice and educates Presbyterians about the impact of these issues.
We will learn more details on how these funds are utilized from presentations during Minute for Mission and inserts in our Sunday bulletins during Lent. You can contribute to OGHS through congregational giving on Palm Sunday April 13; online at pcausa.org/give-oghs or by texting the letters OGHS to 91999.
Thank you for your gifts. If we all do a little, it adds up to a lot!
– Your Outreach Team
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