Christmas
Fund
(formerly known as
Veterans of the Cross)
Please use the envelope below to make your
annual donation to the UCC
Christmas Fund. These donations go to retired clergy who are
in need
of financial assistance.
An emergency check to help a clergy family
pay mounting medical bills.
A grant to assist an annuitant couple meet unexpected increases for
nursing
home care. Pension and health premium supplementation to low-income
retirees.
Christmas checks to hundreds of annuitants, as a way of saying
“Thank You”
for their years of faithful ministry.
Your gifts to the Christmas Fund offering
are an expression of love
and thanks to those who serve the United Church of Christ. Last year
alone,
the Ministerial Assistance Program – funded, in part, by your
generous
response to the Christmas Fund – helped to provide:
$171,000 in Christmas Grants
$132,613 in Emergency and Disability Grants
$482,360 in Regular Monthly Grants
$982,177 in Pension Supplementation
$221,000 in Health Plan Supplementation
This year your gifts are needed more than
ever, to enable this ministry
of compassion and care to further reach those members of our UCC family
who need our support.
“From
Christ’s fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.”
- John 1:16
“You can help us
say ‘Yes!”
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