One Great Hour of Sharing
The One Great Hour of Sharing offering is sponsored by nine U.S. Christian denominations, including American Baptist Churches USA, and Church World Service. Monies collected are used to build communities, teach skills, resettle refugees, respond to disasters, prevent disease, and promote hope and health among humankind. The OGHS offering has been taken for over 50 years and funds projects worldwide. Based on sobering figures such as that 32% of people in developing countries live on less than $1 a day and that one out of every six children in the U.S. lives in poverty, One Great Hour of Sharing helps fund short term and long term solutions. These include direct feeding programs, agricultural support, and literacy training. Other examples of One Great Hour of Sharing-supported projects include developing ministry opportunities in Russia, providing community health services in India, and flood rebuilding in West Virginia. This offering is collected each June.
What BCGV does
BCGV members gave $1365 at one time and then another $2,745 in 2011.
How you can serve
You can support One Great Hour of Sharing by sending your check to BCGV, Attn.: Financial Secretary, marking your check for OGHS, Haiti and Chile relief (if that is your desire).