God's Bidding 2013

by offering an alternative to the consumer frenzy that has taken over the Christmas season. The story is simple: God loves the world and God gave a life-changing gift to the world.

The annual Alternative Christmas Market provides many opportunities to purchase gifts for loved ones that will, in turn, help alleviate human poverty and suffering. Our on-line auction, God's Bidding, is a wonderful and fun way to participate in compassionate gift-giving.
Auction: God's Bidding 2013
Starts: November 23, 2013 09:00 AM EST
Ends: December 08, 2013 05:00 PM EST
Participants:102 (view)
Auction URL: www.32auctions.com/godsbidding2013
Description:

This is the fifth year that the Alternative Market has included an on-line auction, called "God's Bidding." The auction represents gifts/donations from dozens of church members who offer their time, service, talents, or beautiful objects and vacation homes to help raise money for local and international poverty relief. When members, friends and others "win" these items through generous bidding, the money they pay goes not to the donor but to selected projects that help give people immediate relief from desperate situations calused by poverty, and opportunity to move out of poverty.

The goal for God's Bidding 2013 is $10,000 and the proceeds will be split between the IFC (Inter Faith Council, which supports the underserved in our community) and CWS (Chuch World Service).

Church World Service (CWS)
UCCH is raising funds to help children working as street and beach vendors, car washers, garbage classifiers, helpers in local markets and bus terminals to stop working or substantially reduce the numbers of hours in the street and go back to school, play, develop life-skills and healthy habits and discover and develop their potential. CWS is partnering with two communities - one in Nicaragua and one in the Dominican Republic.Through their partnerships with locally based partners, CWS works with one child, one family at a time. The United Nations has defined “child labor” as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.
It is overwhelming to think that there are 9 million children and youth in Latin American and the Caribbean (9 million!) who are victims of child labor and sexual exploitation. We can help to change that.
IFC: Inter-Faith Council for Social Services
The IFC helps families in our community dealing with food, job, and housing insecurity. In 1963, a group of seven local people united their volunteer efforts to address the conditions of poverty in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The Inter-Faith Council was created, “to discover unmet needs and to respond through the coordinated efforts of volunteers.” Since that time IFC has developed alternative housing, job coaching, free health clinics, safe shelter, community services, advocacy, legal advice, and food pantry.

Auction: God's Bidding 2023

This is the 14th year that the Alternative Gift Market has included an online auction, called "God's Bidding." The auction represents gifts/donations from church members who offer their time, service, talents, or beautiful objects and vacation homes to help raise money for local and international charities and organizations. When members, friends and others "WIN" these items through generous bidding, the money they pay goes not to the donor but to selected projects that help give people immediate relief from desperate situations caused by poverty, and opportunity to move out of poverty.

The goal for God's Bidding 2023 is $12,000 and the proceeds will be split between the IFC (Inter-Faith Council, which supports people with a variety of needs in our community) and CWS (Church World Service).

Church World Service (CWS)
UCCH is raising funds to provide assistance in relocating families and people displaced by disaster and armed conflict. While CWS offers support to all families, people within the USA who are displaced by climate disasters receive assistance from CWS.

IFC: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service
The IFC helps families in our community dealing with: food, job, and housing insecurity.

AGM HISTORY
In 1963, a group of seven local people united their volunteer efforts to address the conditions of poverty in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The Inter-Faith Council was created, “to discover unmet needs and to respond through the coordinated efforts of volunteers.” Since that time IFC has developed: alternative housing, job coaching, free health clinics, safe shelter, community services, advocacy, legal advice, and food pantry.

Contacts:
Henry Lister halister@bellsouth.net
Kati Ruark kruark@unitedchurch.org