One Great Hour

of Sharing

Sharing resources, changing lives

http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/specialofferings/one-great-hour-sharing-offering/

Since 1949, Presbyterians have joined with millions of other Christians through One Great Hour of Sharing to share God's love with people experiencing need.  Our gifts support ministries of disaster response, refugee assistance and resettlement, and community development that help people find safe refuge, start new lives and work together to strengthen their families and communities.

Recognizing that the hope we have in Christ is lived out in our hope for one another, we respond with gifts that help our sisters and brothers around the world find the hope for a brighter future.

The Presbyterian Hunger Program receives 36 percent of undesignated One Great Hour of Sharing gifts, while the Self-Development of People and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance each receive 32 percent.

Most congregations receive the offering on Easter Sunday. Palm Sunday or both, while many receive it throughout Lent.

Presbyterian Hunger Program

http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/hunger/

The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) works to feed hungry people and end hunger in our community, our nation, and our world through raising awareness, providing opportunities for response, and reaching out to those in need.  It addresses hunger and its causes in five program areas outlined in the Common Affirmation on Global Hunger:

Direct Food Relief Influencing Public Policy Education and Interpretation Development Assistance Life-style Integrity

 

 Who is Self Development Of People?

http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/sdop/

"A ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Self Development of People is a partnership of love, justice and empowerment reflecting the image of God who stands with all people."

Self-Development of People is a ministry that affirms God's concern for humankind.  We are Presbyterians and ecumenical partners dissatisfied with poverty and oppression, united in faith and action though sharing, confronting, and enabling.  We participate in the empowerment of economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people, seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression and injustice.

'Why we do what we do'

SDOP is the reaction of a church that knows the call to love your neighbor as yourself: "whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them" The Church that claims to love kindness, do justice and walk with the God who walks with the poor.  We are who we are and do what we do because God has called us to embody the Word in the power of the Spirit who once called the prophets, the example of the Lord and his indescribable passion for justice.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance enables congregations and mission partners of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to witness to the healing love of Christ through caring for communities adversely affected by crisis and catastrophic events.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is the emergency and refugee program of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.  The core budget, including staff and administrative cost, is funded through the One Great Hour of Sharing, and its program work is additionally funded through designated gifts.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

Focuses on the long term recovery of disaster impacted communities and provides training and disaster preparedness for presbyteries and synods.

http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/pda/