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Beyond The Community
Bread for the World Covenant
Berwyn UMC is a Covenant Church with Bread of the World.
Churches across the country have strengthened their hunger ministry by
becoming covenant churches. These churches make a commitment to
integrate hunger concerns into the life of their congregations.
Bread for the World provides opportunities to learn more about hunger,
to pray for hungry people, and to take action to end hunger through advocacy.
Penny Jar
As the children come forward to hear the Children’s Message during the 10:30 a.m.
worship service, they gather pennies from congregants in the pews and place the coins
in the Penny Jar on the altar steps. Part of the Penny Jar collection will help support Tamara Phiri, a young girl
in Africa, through
Children International. She is six and lives with her parents.
Our support will enable her to go to school which her parents can not afford,
and provide her with health care.
The balance of the collections will go to
Cookson
Hills Mission to provide support for their Christmas Shop
which allows persons to buy new gifts at a price they can afford.
In the past, donations have also gone to The Methodist Church's Hope for the Children Fund which aided children
in Africa and the United States, The Chester County Bridge of Hope (a woman and child shelter in West Chester
and Lancaster County), and other projects which have an emphasis on children.
Soup Labels for Methodist Mission at Cookson Hills
Berwyn UMC continues to support the work of the Methodist Mission at Cookson Hills,
located in the poorest county of Oklahoma. We collect Campbell soup labels for
the mission in an envelope posted on the Missions Bulletin board.
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