Online charity drive benefits OK-related missions
1/10/2014
| Oklahoma-related missions and missionaries benefitted from Giving Tuesday, an online funding drive Dec. 3 for the worldwide Advance ministries of the Church. Among them: • Eight projects in Bolivia, $270,396 • Manos Juntas Mexico, $87,958 • Lydia Patterson Institute, El Paso, Texas, $37,895 • Meri Whitaker, Cookson, Okla., $13,606 • Cookson Hills Center, Oklahoma, $7,969 • Kristen Brown, Israel/Palestine, $4,530 • Carol Partridge, Macedonia, $4,350 • Alex and Brenda Awad, Israel/Palestine, $4,175 • Donna Pewo, Clinton, Okla., $2,625 • Marsha Alexander, Philippines, $1,970 • Fuxia Wang, Norman, Okla., $1,877.60 • Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference Parish Partners, $1,500 • Umba and Ngoy Kalangwa, Tanzania, $1,050 • Clinton (Okla.) Indian Church and Community Center, $843 • Carlos Ramirez, coordinator for Hispanic/Latino Ministry in Oklahoma, $575 • US2 Jerrica Becker, Cedartown, Ga., $564 • US2 Kristina Thorson, St. John’s UMC, Oklahoma City, $275 • Mount Sequoyah Conference and Retreat Center, Fayetteville, Ark., $50 • Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference Construction Project Fund, $10 This is only a partial list. It includes mission personnel in covenant relationships, from page 41 of the 2013 Oklahoma Conference Journal, and projects included in the Conference budget, as well as a few special selections. The 14-page full report was provided to Contact by Conference Secretary of Global Ministries Karen Distefano of Bartlesville. Among those gifts to projects launched through the Bolivia/Oklahoma Methodist Partnership, the Woodworth Estate matched about $88,000, according to David Stephenson of Tulsa, mission interpreter for the partnership. All donations on Giving Tuesday totaled $6.5 million, from donors in 34 countries. The General Board of Global Ministries matched the first $500,000. |