{"id":18758,"date":"2018-11-27T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=18758"},"modified":"2018-11-27T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:04:00","slug":"christmas-the-jamaa-letu-orphanages-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/christmas-the-jamaa-letu-orphanages-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, the Jamaa Letu Orphanages (and you)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By\u00a0Barbara Dadd Shaffer<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Looking for a very good gift for someone special? One which they will like and which you will like giving? Consider a gift in their name to the children and teens who live at the Jamaa Letu Orphanages in the DR Congo. Your special person will know that they are just that\u2014special to you.\u00a0 Together you will know that young people will benefit from your thoughtfulness, so appropriate during this time of celebrating the great gift of the Messiah.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to \u2018shop\u2019 for this gift. Make a donation in their name for the orphanages. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/?page_id=245\">visit the Jamaa Letu website<\/a> where there\u2019s an attractive gift certificate which you can print, tuck into an envelope or gift bag, and present to your special person. (Hint: it\u2019s on the honor system; no one is checking.)<\/p>\n<p>How to make the donation: Make it to your local church with a designation so the treasurer knows how to identify it when it\u2019s sent on to the conference office. Or, send the donation directly to the conference office, identified as \u2018JLO Christmas\u2019. Or, even faster, make the donation online with the website\u2019s \u2018Donate\u2019 button which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/\">on the homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are presently 60 children and teens living in the two Jamaa Letu Orphanages. The Pacific Northwest Conference provides the majority of the funds for the operations. Christmas gifts toward their support help ensure their continued care in their home in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about our shared work supporting young people in the\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.JamaaLetu.org\">www.JamaaLetu.org<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Barbara Dadd Shaffer<\/strong> serves as a member of the Bishop\u2019s Hope for the Children of Africa Task Force.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Barbara Dadd Shaffer Looking for a very good gift for someone special? One which they will like and which you will like giving? 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