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GHDA Appeal

Four Ways to Give:

  1. Add your gift to your regular
    congregational giving and
    designate it to GHDA

  2. Make a cheque payable
    to the Evangelical Lutheran
    Church in Canada, write
    GHDA in the memo portion
    and mail to:

    Evangelical Lutheran
    Church in Canada
    att GHDA
    302-393 Portage Ave.
    Winnipeg MB R3B 3H6

  3. Click on the 'Donate Now'
    button below to donate
    online through the secure
    web site at
    Canada Helps.org
    and designate your gift
    to GHDA. You may
    indicate a specific
    appeal in the message
    to the charity area.

    Donate Now Through CanadaHelps.org!\
  4. You can set up an Pre-Authorized Remittance which will allow you to make automatic monthly contributions to GHDA. This can be done by filling out the form which you can find by clicking here and then send it to the ELCIC national office (302-393 Portage Ave.
    Winnipeg MB R3B 3H6)
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GHDA General Appeal

GHDA allocates your gifts to help people help themselves. Poverty-focused development is the best way to fight hunger in the long term. Therefore, most of your contributions go toward helping people improve their lives in their communities. This is done through long-term, sustainable development which breaks the cycle of chronic hunger and poverty. It is achieved when poor communities are assisted to find solutions to their problems that are based on their own assets, resources and labour.

But GHDA also provides important support to projects that address the causes of poverty here in Canada. Synod GHDA committees are responsible for allocating the 9% of national GHDA receipts that are returned to them to support poverty-alleviation projects on their territories. Community gardens and kitchens, out-of-the-cold programs and school breakfast projects are examples of local initiatives which receive GHDA support.

GHDA allocates funds to work for justice and peace through advocacy and education. GHDA contributions support coalitions and agencies that encourage justice in government policies and programs that touch the lives of the poor and the marginalized. GHDA also assists to help ELCIC members of all ages learn about the reality, causes and cures of hunger and poverty through education materials and resources.

GHDA is important because it is a faithful response to the call to God's people to love their neighbours as themselves. With each gift to GHDA, discipleship is exercised across the street and around the world.
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