From the Bishop: Humble Place: How you can help

B. Michael Watson

The recent Wesleyan Christian Advocate article about our South Georgia/East Africa Partnership and the Humble United Methodist School in Uganda has caused several readers and churches to ask me to tell them again how they can help with this remarkable opportunity to be in Christian mission to the precious children in East Africa. I am happy to share this information with as many as are interested in joining this effort to make disciples of Jesus Christ as we minister to highly vulnerable children and battle the killer diseases of poverty such as HIV/Aids and malaria.

It is so easy to do a lot of good. By contributing through your local church to one of three South Georgia Conference Advance Special Mission Funds, you can literally make a world of difference in the lives of some of the poorest children in the world. A gift of $1,500.00 will feed, clothe, house, educate and medicate one child for one year. Humble Place, which is what we affectionately call the Humble United Methodist School, Church, Clinic, and related ministries, is currently seeking the funds to provide this kind of total care for over 200 children. Every gift of any amount is a blessing in this holy cause.

There are three funds to which you can give. Each one has a separate Conference Advance Special Mission number. They are: Humble Place Program/Scholarship Fund # 1754, Humble Place Capital Fund # 1764, and the South Georgia/East Africa Partnership Fund # 1696. Each one of these funds is a vital part of this wonderful ministry. We need money for programs and scholarships, money for buildings and upkeep, and money for the support of the partnership between our two conferences which enables us to continue this mission ministry.Surely we have 200 individuals; Sunday School classes; mission committees; other groups of children; youth, or adults; or local churches who would make a commitment to fund at least one child for at least three years. What about you, or your group, or your church?Dear God, let it be.

Bishop Mike Watson serves the South Georgia Conference.