2011 Northwest Washington Synod Assembly

Assembly Offering

Worship offerings were received in the amount of $3,305.16 from Friday morning service, and $2,671.70 from Saturday morning service.

This year's offering will be divided in the following manner: 40 percent to the ELCA Malaria Campaign and the ELCA HIV/AIDS Initiative, 40 percent to African Americans Reach and Teach Health [AARTH], and 20 percent to be divided equally between our companion synods.

ELCA Malaria Campaign
http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Responding-to-the-World/ELCA-Malaria-Campaign.aspx Going off site...
ELCA Malaria Campaign - Every 45 seconds a child dies from malaria. Malaria is preventable. Malaria is treatable. A healthier future is possible. The time to act is now.

ELCA Strategy on HIV AIDS
http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Justice/Poverty-Ministries/HIV-and-AIDS.aspx Going off site...
AIDS has claimed the lives of more than 25 million people worldwide, and has left millions of children as orphans. Also available in Spanish.

AARTH
http://www.aarth.org/ Going off site...
African Americans Reach and Teach Health [AARTH] is a faith-based capacity building nonprofit organization established to respond to HIV/AIDS and other major health issues affecting people of African descent.