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TEARING DOWN WALLS.
BUILDING UP HOPE.

MCC's Special Easter Offering 2006
Dedicated to the Eastern Europe Initiative

Special Thanks to the churches who will
give to MCC's Special Easter Offering:

          

During this Easter season, MCC invites you to make a generous contribution to help us launch our vital new outreach in Eastern Europe.

As we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, we also have an opportunity to nurture the powerful resurrections taking place right now across Eastern Europe, as spiritual faith, political freedom, human rights, religious hunger, and LGBT affirmation are all experiencing the “new birth” of resurrection.

Let us explain why MCC is ideally poised to nurture the spiritual and justice resurrections taking place in Eastern Europe:

Two years ago, Rev. Elder Diane Fisher launched MCC-led international actions that changed the course of a nation. The President of Romania and the Mayor of Bucharest had both refused to allow a Pride March in Romania. But they yielded to the international pressure brought of the MCC-led actions.

As a result, LGBT people across Romania held the first Pride March in their nation’s history – and MCC conducted  public worship services, offered workshops, and helped organize the LGBT community.

(PHOTO: Romania's Historic First Pride March)

That event was a catalyst across Eastern Europe. Responses poured in to MCC from people of faith and LGBT activists asking for MCC’s help to organize communities, offer workshops, support human rights, plant churches, and offer spiritual help to LGBT people.

Now, your generous gift to MCC’s Easter Offering for Eastern Europe will allow MCC to take advantage of these God-given opportunities – and will bring faith and hope to people now experiencing the power of resurrection.

In fact, your generous gift to MCC's special Easter Offering will accomplish two important goals: It will be used to plant new churches in Eastern Europe -- churches that will provide spiritual support to LGBT people and their allies – and it will also advance the cause of human rights and justice in these emerging democracies.

During May and June, Rev. Elder Diane Fisher and Romanian MCC leader Florin Buhuceanu will travel to Russia, Moldova, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania. We must raise $20,000 (US) to underwrite the cost of this initiative and to plant new churches.

Can we count on you to make a gift to this important MCC outreach?

(PHOTO: Protestors Jeer Participants in Romania's First Pride March)

Let me tell you what you will accomplish with your special MCC Easter Offering. Your gift will:

• Plant new MCC congregations in Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, and Russia.
• Provide staffing in Eastern Europe to support new congregations and to actively address the spiritual and justice needs in this area.
• Print MCC materials in local languages.
• Be used to conduct a campaign in May and June 2006 in which Rev. Elder Diane Fisher and Romanian MCC leader Florin Buhuceanu will train activists, hold local pride events, and help organize LGBT communities, as well as hold workshops for LGBT people of faith and conduct local worship services.

You can take part by making a contribution to your local MCC's Easter Offering for Eastern Europe.

(PHOTO: Rev. Elder Diane Fisher Leads MCC Worship Service Following Romania's Pride March)

I passionately believe in this new MCC Eastern European Initiative. We have a wonderful opportunity to carry MCC's gospel of God's inclusive love for all people to people who are hungry for faith.

And your generous gift will turn this opportunity into a reality! Won't you take a minute right not to make your gift on-line?

Thank you for your faithfulness to Jesus’ calling, and for your commitment to MCC’s "Unfinished World; Unfinished Calling" program!

If you prefer to send your gift by postal mail, simply mail your check -- made payable to "Metropolitan Community Churches" with the notation "Eastern Europe Initiative" -- to Metropolitan Community Churches, ATTN: Easter Offering for Eastern Europe, P. O. Box 1374, Abilene, TX  79604.

Also see: 

"MCC is Tearing Down Walls and Building Up Hope" News Release, March 21, 2006

"Easter Offering, 2006" Call to Action, March 6, 2006

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