gifts that give 2009
World Vision Microfinance LoansJoin the Chapel Hill Family & Friends Group on the World Vision Micro site and give a micro loan to help a business owner succeed. Choose the entrepreneur you want to help in a developing country. Read their story. See their business idea. With one in five people worldwide surviving on less than $1.25 a day, the need is great. Plus, your donation is always tax-deductible.
Be part of an innovative program that has helped thousands of families overcome desperate poverty. The micro loans help impoverished people start small businesses — and build a better life for their children. Loan recipients will be carefully screened, and receive six months of training from World Vision. Your gift will be reinvested again and again to help family after family. Click here to go to World Vision.
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Build a Home for a Gig Harbor Family
Habitat for Humanity builds simple, decent, affordable houses (approximately. 1,000 sq. ft.) in partnership with those who lack adequate shelter to eliminate poverty
in our community. Habitat has been building in the Gig Harbor/Key Peninsula area since 2001. $25 buys Hardie plank siding for a home on the new Gig Harbor site. HFH $25
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Grant a Foster Child a Christmas Experience
Youth for Christ Foster Care is licensed by the State of Washington to serve foster children ages 0-18. These children have been removed from their families by either Child Protective Services or Law Enforcement due to physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect or abandonment. Youth for Christ is committed to mobilizing the church to help support the children in our community who find themselves in these unfortunate circumstances. A gift of $30 today will go towards helping YFC provide a Christmas experience for a child in the foster care system. #YFC $30
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Send a Terminally Ill Child to Camp
REACH serves terminally ill children who, through no fault of their own, are infected with HIV/AIDS. REACH Camp, traditionally held over Labor Day week, is the entry-point to year-round programs and services for families. A gift of $25 will go into a camp scholarship fund so kids can experience and grow in love, hope and courage! #RCH $25
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Giving Tree
Every year Chapel Hill partners with local social service agencies to make Christmas happen for over 1,000 children and adults in our community. Often at the top of their list is a gift card for their favorite store. Your donation of $25 will add a gift card to the other small personal gifts given by our congregation. #GT $25
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Support Nurture and Fellowship for an InmateThe mission of Kairos Prison Ministry International is to establish and nurture on-going weekly prayer and share groups. This starts with allowing incarcerated residents and prison staff to see and experience Christ’s love through the prayers and service of Christian volunteers during a 3 ½ day retreat Inside. Your gift of $30 would pay for one day of the retreat. #KAR $30
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Dress an Inmate Re-Entering Society
The Dress for Success Clothes Closet at Washington Correction Center for Women provides new and gently used clothes to inmates as they prepare to leave prison. Foremost on the minds of these vulnerable women is the need to re-enter the job market. The anticipation of their first interview is greatly affected by their wardrobe. Your gift of $20 helps Chapel Hill to supply socks and tennis shoes to supplement the donated used clothing. #DSC $20
The Dress for Success Clothes Closet at Washington Correction Center for Women provides new and gently used clothes to inmates as they prepare to leave prison. Foremost on the minds of these vulnerable women is the need to re-enter the job market. The anticipation of their first interview is greatly affected by their wardrobe. Your gift of $20 helps Chapel Hill to supply socks and tennis shoes to supplement the donated used clothing. #DSC $20
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Provide Communication for Incarcerated Women
Rebuilding Families Inc. has developed a mentoring program for incarcerated women to aid in their reentry process. A gift of $20 buys a 700 minute phone card for these women. The phone card enables them to establish and maintain contact with their family members as well as look for work and schedule the myriad appointments required when they are first released from prison. #RFI $20
Rebuilding Families Inc. has developed a mentoring program for incarcerated women to aid in their reentry process. A gift of $20 buys a 700 minute phone card for these women. The phone card enables them to establish and maintain contact with their family members as well as look for work and schedule the myriad appointments required when they are first released from prison. #RFI $20
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Offer Running Water to a Guatemalan Family
Through the Agros Foundation, Chapel Hill is partnering with the village of Villa Hortencia 1 in Guatemala. In this partnership, rural, poor families acquire agricultural land, attain self-sufficiency and realize their God- given potential. It is our goal for each family home to have a sink, or pila, in their yard. This is the only method of bringing water to their homes. $25 goes toward a pila (sink) for a family in Villa Hortencia 1. #AGR $25
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Give Burmese Children Sports
The Good Life Club school tour brings a children’s program to villages and Internally Displaced People sites in Burma. This program includes games for the children like soccer or volleyball. The team visiting the children leaves a sports pack that includes a soccer ball, badminton set, takraw ball set, long jump rope and volleyball set. A gift of $25 will go toward the sports pack.
#CCB $25
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Offer an Opportunity for Reconciliation
Musalaha Ministries provides hope to Israeli and Palestinian followers of Christ and helps them overcome the significant religious, racial and cultural differences that often divide them. A gift of $25 will help provide a camping experience this summer in the Pacific Northwest for twenty Palestinian & Israeli teens where seeds of friendship and reconciliation will be planted and nurtured. #MRM $25
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Send a Kazakhstan Teenager to Camp
In association with CIS, Transition House offers a home for orphaned teenagers who are preparing to transition to independent living. Each summer they take 20 to 25 of these teenagers into the mountains of Kazakhstan to play together and to consider the teachings of Jesus. A gift of $25 provides a scholarship for camp. #CIS $25
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Feed a Moldovan Foster Family
Moldovan Hope Foundation provides love, prayer, and vital resources for foster families in Moldova. $25 buys a basket of food for these foster families and the orphans they welcome into their homes. #MHF $25
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Give ChickensIn response to the current HIV/AIDS crisis in Swaziland, New Life Homes (NLH) makes a significant and sustainable contribution to the lives of the most vulnerable children. A gift of $25 buys four laying hens for NLH families which provide nutrition for growing children through meat and eggs as well as extra family income when the eggs are sold to local people and stores. #NLH $25
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Provide Hygiene Kits for Impoverished RomaniansHeart of Hope Ministries International provides humanitarian aid and spiritual nourishment to children and families living below the poverty level in Romania. This year at camp it was discovered that many children had come with only 1 or 2 pairs of underwear because that’s all they had. A gift of $25 will provide underwear, socks, toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo and deodorant for these children. #HHM $25
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How to use this online catalog (all donations are tax-deductible)
*Choose an item. (Please note that any dollar amount can be given towards any ministry or project.)
*Choose a friend or loved one to honor (optional).
*Choose the method of ordering most convenient for you:
In person: At the Festival of HOPE, November 6-8; or on Sundays,
November 15 - December 27, at Chapel Hill Mission Control; or
weekdays at the church office.
By phone: Call 253-853-0238. Please have your order form ready.
By Mail: Mail your order form along with a check, money order or credit card information to:
Chapel Hill Church – Gifts of HOPE
P.O. Box 829, Gig Harbor, WA 98335
*Choose an item. (Please note that any dollar amount can be given towards any ministry or project.)
*Choose a friend or loved one to honor (optional).
*Choose the method of ordering most convenient for you:
In person: At the Festival of HOPE, November 6-8; or on Sundays,
November 15 - December 27, at Chapel Hill Mission Control; or
weekdays at the church office.
By phone: Call 253-853-0238. Please have your order form ready.
By Mail: Mail your order form along with a check, money order or credit card information to:
Chapel Hill Church – Gifts of HOPE
P.O. Box 829, Gig Harbor, WA 98335
Online: Click here to give online! Here you will be able to choose the gifts you’d like to purchase and pay securely by credit card.
Please note: 100% of your donation is tax-deductible and will be used toward the ministry you’ve selected. When projects are fully funded, additional donations will be used where the need is greatest within that ministry.