Why
A Relief Sale?
Why Hold a Relief Sale?
$5,000,000 in U.S. funds were raised
at relief sales across the United States and Canada
in 2004, with 88% sent to the field. Many churches
join together to set up food booths, accumulate
items for auction, provide children’s activities,
and organize other kinds of booths to raise funds
for MCC. Having the community atmosphere of a
festival, a relief sale invites the general public
to “give to Jesus” since all proceeds from the sale
go directly to MCC.
In addition to many on-going
projects and workers in the field, a current project
of MCC is the allocation of $10,000,000 in response
to the Asian earthquake and subsequent tsunami. MCC
is even now involved in a drive to collect 22,000
relief kits for the Aceh province, Indonesia where
the deadly wave claimed an estimated 100,000 lives
and made 500,000 people homeless.
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