Show SHARING One Great Hour This Sunday March 12 there wilt will occur one of the most mot unique events In the history of 01 spiritual elevation and mans man's efforts to help http his hb fellow lellow man For on that da day some churches with approximately 25 million members will Join in a coordinated appeal for the support of ot overseas relief and reconstruction re ref construction projects THE TIlE APPEAL will be conducted under the slogan One Great Hour of 01 Sharing and will win be made simultaneously in all cooperating churches as part of 01 the regular worship of the day Church World Service which is fa conducting the campaign Is the overseas relief relict agency of 01 23 cooperating coop crating Protestant and Eastern Orthodox church bodies In addition addi lion tion to the denominations affiliated with it it Is supported by the following lot fol lowing interdenominational agencies agencies agen agen- cies Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America Foreign Missions Missions Mis Mis- Missions Conference of 01 North America America Amer Amer- ica tea American Committee of the World Council of ot Churches and the United Council of Church Women These affiliated organizations organization understand understand understand un un- better than perhaps any other organization can the vast need of relief and reconstruction overseas That so many millions of helpless people may be helped that they can be given new hope for the future fa is one of the chief goals of these many organizations Last year Church World Service shipped materials amounting to more than eight million dollars to 50 foreign countries These relief shipments included about 24 million mil mU- million lion pounds of farm products c clothing o ng bedding medicines hos boa pital l equipment and miscellaneous I items But nut Church World Service knows that more much more Is needed It is for that reason that the unified unIfied unified uni unI- fied campaign of One Great Hour of Sharing Is to be conducted so that all who wish to may have a hand in the organizations organization's humanitarian humanitarian human human- tartan work |