Glenn Memorial UMC raised nearly $59,000 through its 2024 Alternative Giving Catalog – all for programs and projects that reach out to people in need. From global schools to benevolences for the unhoused and hungry to victims of wars, Glenn cares. The catalog announced approximately $35,000 in wishes at the beginning of Advent, but generous contributions resulted in gifts far beyond that wish.
Glenn Memorial UMC, Alternative Giving Breakdowns
Here’s what these gifts mean to their beneficiaries:
Ecuador’s Methodist parish schools can expand services with more classrooms.
With Glenn-funded scholarships, women in Cambodia who left school before graduating can return to finish high school.
Methodist disaster relief programs — local, national, and global — can send more dollars for relief when disasters hit.
With Glenn funding, GIPL can provide grants to food-short areas in Georgia to replace invasive growth with community gardens.
A Glenn-sponsored, mostly volunteer, Habitat for Humanity work crew will enjoy one Glenn-hosted lunch during the build, and a jointly-hosted one when house keys are passed to the new owner.
Clients of Lost-n-Found Youth will enjoy a monthly lunch-n-learn meal prepared by Glenn chefs and can take MARTA more often for education, employment, and health appointments.
Out of Hand Theater can draw on the talents of more actors, sponsored by Glenn, to carry their messages of hope and justice to audiences around Atlanta, including ones at Glenn.
The Peace and Justice and the World Hunger and Poverty Advances of the UMC General Board of Global Ministries will be better able to address and seek solutions to pervasive problems.
Snack in a Backpack can carry on this year’s program of providing weekend food supplies for children facing food insecurity as its organizers develop a financial plan for the future.
Trinity Table can count on Glenn to serve a Sunday lunch for our downtown, capitol area neighbors and to help another church finance and serve a second lunch.
The 69 students on Glenn-sponsored scholarships in Zimbabwe will have the uniforms they need, and the schools they attend can bore a well so they can meet extreme draught conditions .