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How to Help
There will be a great need for volunteers to help rebuild once the initial crisis has settled. At this time, it is not safe or possible for volunteers to go to Haiti.
Gifts to support UMCOR's Haiti Relief efforts can be made to Haiti Emergency, UMCOR Advance #418325.
Please send your individual or special congregational offering money to:
Treasurer, SWTX Conference
Attention: Haiti Relief
United Methodist Church
16400 Huebner Rd.
San Antonio TX 78248
Gifts can be made online via the General Board of Global Ministries/UMCOR website: http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?code=418325&id=3018760
100% of gifts made to this advance will go to help the people of Haiti.
UMCOR Sager Brown is coordinating a shipment of health kits to provide individuals with basic necessities. Instructions for assembling and shipping health kits are available at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/supplies/health-kit/ .
Haiti Relief Donations
Qualify for Immediate
Tax Relief
People who give to charities providing earthquake relief in Haiti can claim these donations on the tax return they are completing this season, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Taxpayers who itemize deductions on their 2009 return qualify for this special tax relief provision, enacted Jan. 22. Only cash contributions made to these charities after Jan. 11, 2010, and before March 1, 2010, are eligible. This includes contributions made by text message, check, credit card or debit card. The new law only applies to cash (as opposed to property) contributions. The contributions must be made specifically for the relief of victims in areas affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. Taxpayers have the option of deducting these contributions on either their 2009 or 2010 returns, but not both.
Click here to see where you can send donations.
Mission Trips to Haiti
A great many United Methodists are indicating a willingness to serve as relief or rebuilding volunteers in Haiti.
In response to this outpouring, Global Ministries has prepared an information site on the internet. It is at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/about/us/mv/haiti.
A letter on volunteers from Bishop Martinez, interim general secretary, to members of the Council of Bishops is linked to the site.
Please note that the bishop requests that groups and individuals not set out on their own for Haiti at this time. Reasons are given.
Letter from Methodist
Church in Haiti
On behalf of the Methodist Church in Haiti and the Haitian people, we thank you. Thank you all
for your outpouring of love, support and Christian brotherhood in our great hour of need. Haiti
has suffered a great tragedy, and to rebuild, recover and strengthen, it will take us all.
Read more
Clint Rabb, Mission Executive, Dies of Earthquake Injuries
New York, NY, Jan. 17, 2010 The Rev. Clinton Rabb, 61, a
leader in The United Methodist Church extensive mission volunteer
program, died on January 17 in a Florida hospital of injuries caused
when he was trapped for 55 hours in the ruins of a hotel destroyed by
the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
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