One Great Hour of Sharing®

Presents…Susan Sanders

OGHS Administrator

OGHS Live!

OGHS Live! Schedule

Gathering & connecting to callOGHS Live! Begins

Welcome & IntroductionOpening Prayer & ScriptureReflection by featured Speaker

Interaction with the Speaker – Q & A Partnership Prayer

Commissioning & BenedictionOGHS Live! Ends

Introducing Susan Sanders

Susan M. Sanders is a life long memberof the United Church of Christ and a native of Ohio. She currently serves as Minister and Team Leader for Global Sharing of Resources,

with the UCC Wider Church Ministries. Susan also served as United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, Minister for Volunteer Services 1991-2000. Previously she served with Peace Corps in Liberia and the UCC at Bethany Children’s Home in Pennsylvania.

Susan is a member of Pilgrim UCC in Cleveland, OhioSusan believes passionately in the ministry of hospitality and service and finds her ministry with One Great Hour of Sharing to be a marvelous gift.

Opening PrayerWe come to worship you, O God, thankful that you call us your children. We come to follow Christ’s way, to grow in love

and service, to mature to see the face of Christ in all the faces of the world, and to treat each person with the compassion Christ has shown us. Open our hearts to receive your Spirit and grace. Amen. http://www.ucc.org/oghs/resources/Worship-Resources.html#Call_to_Worship

Sharing and changing… in Grahavo, Bosnia

Sharing and caring in Manila, Philippines

Sharing and caring in Manila, Philippines

Joy

Partnership Prayer Leader: God is the Giver of all Gifts. We thank God forthe opportunity to share resources that change lives through One Great Hour of Sharing®. We give thanks for theopportunity to join God in empowering people; and in that relationship to be empowered ourselves. As voices throughout the world call each other to faithfulness, hear our prayers ofgratitude, O God. One: “We help each other through the trauma of war,”says Amina in South Darfur, Sudan. “In the Dereig Camp for Displaced People we live and talk with others affected byviolence.”

Partnership Prayer continuedMany: Thank you, God, for the opportunity toparticipate in building a community center where there issocial and spiritual space for people to offer each othermutual support and encouragement.

One: We, in the Dominican Republic, must work toprevent waterborne diseases that cause death.

Many: Thank you, God, for gifts that make filters forclean drinking water available.

Partnership Prayer continued One: We, in Mindanao, Philippines, must educate ourchildren through lives disrupted and threatened by violence.

Many: Thank you, God, for making us part ofscholarships and assistance programs that enableeducational opportunities for children.

One: We, in Myanmar, in Somalia, in Iraq, and otherplaces must protect ourselves and our families from persecution by fleeing our own nationsor through forcible displacementwithin our own nations.

Many: Thank you, God, for the opportunity to openour hearts and use resources for the resettlement ofrefugees in the United States.

Partnership Prayer continued One: We in India must grow new crops to sell and support

our families.

Many: Thank you, God, for training programs that teach new cultivation techniques which empower women and unemployed youth to experience a better life.

One: We in Sierra Leone must train ourselves and fellow caregivers to provide trauma healing that encourages restorative justice and true reconciliation.

Many: Thank you, God, for training programs that include us in your acts for sustainable peace.

Partnership Prayer continued

One: We in the United States must find ways to survivein the midst of disaster and make daily decisions on how to \rebuild our lives.

Many: Thank you, God, for the ability to walk alongside uprooted families during disaster recovery.

Partnership Prayer continued One: We in Egypt must find our voices as women through leadership in local and national communitydevelopment projects and participation in the electoral process.

Many: Thank you, God, for the opportunity toaccompany communities as they identify their own needsand natural leaders and are empowered to make adifference in the wider society. All: O God, for the opportunity to be part of liveschanged throughout the world and to share resourcesthrough your love, we give you thanks. Through our gifts toOne Great Hour of Sharing® we commit ourselves to theseconnections and acts of life.

Thank you forparticipating with… Susan Sanders

If you have additional questions for Susan, please send them to sanderss@ucc.org

Thank you for joining OGHS Live!

We have enjoyed offering 5 weeks of Lenten Programming. We plan

To do it again next year.

We will be contacting those of you who registered for feedback and

thoughts about how we can make this a better program for you.

Also, if you have suggested speakers that you’d like to hear from,

let us know.

Contact: One Great Hour of Sharing, United Church of

Christ, 700 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115oghs@ucc.org or 1-866-822-9224 x-3215 (toll free)