New Life Community United Methodist Church
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Bring New Life to your family...
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United Methodist Committee on Relief - new.gbgm-umc.org/UMCOR/getconnected/gallery/ Easter AIDS offering 2009 - $1057.66!!!!
Join New Life Community Church in our fight against the AIDS pandemic:
During the Lenten Season NLCC attendees are asked to sacrifice something with a monetary value. Examples such as; dining out, cable TV, cell phone, your daily cup of coffee from the corner cafe, your internet connection, movies, sporting events, other entertainment, etc. We then ask that you be willing to donate the money saved from these sacrifices as an offering for world AIDS relief. Our collection day for the offerings is Easter Sunday and this year we are giving our collections to UMCOR to help AIDS orphans. A big THANK YOU to our wonderful New Life Family for having such generous compassionate hearts.
AIDS Facts in brief:
It has now been more than twenty years since AIDS was first reported, but the disease continues to affect more lives each year. In 2003, nearly five million people were infected with HIV, the biggest number in any one year since the beginning of the epidemic. In 2001, there were 35 million people worldwide living with the disease. By the end of 2004, that number was approximately 39.4 million. As the most vulnerable section of society, children continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic. Nearly half a million children under the age of 15 died of the disease last year, while another 640,000 became HIV-positive. Today there are 2.2 million children living with HIV. Millions more have lost parents to the disease, left with others to take care of them.
In Africa AIDS has become the biggest threat to the continent's development.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. Almost two-thirds of the world's adults and children living with the virus come from this region. Last year AIDS killed 2.2 million Africans and an estimated three million people were newly infected with HIV, bringing the total number of people in sub-Saharan Africa living with HIV/AIDS to 25 million. There is some cause for hope, however, as there is evidence that HIV prevalence rates are declining in countries that have aggressively introduced education and awareness campaigns. In South Africa HIV prevalence rates for pregnant women under the age of 20, fell to 15.4% in 2001, down from 21% in 1998. A decline in HIV prevalence has also been detected among young inner-city women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, and Uganda. Eighteen million children have already lost one or both parents to AIDS, 12 million of them are from Africa. Unless more is done, there will be 25 million orphaned children around the world by 2010. We at World Vision believe we all have the opportunity to help.
World Vision spends 87% of what they receive for programs that make a difference in the world.
The ONE Campaign.
International assistance saves lives, directly helping and empowering individuals to help themselves. Increasing international assistance by an amount equal to just ONE percent of the U.S. budget will:
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