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July-August, 2003 We celebrate the tremendous amount of financial support we have already received from 97 churches, 200 individuals, and four Associations! We still need to raise funds, however, to pay the cost of the visit of the Freedom Schooner, Amistad, to the Boston Harbor and for our MACUCC Amistad Celebration Day on October 25th. We are still hoping for 100% participation from our MACUCC churches. We need and value your financial support for this mission and ministry. We have asked churches to consider gifts of $200 to $500, although we welcome any contribution. Please note that we will not and can not pay for the cost of the Amistad or our MACUCC Celebration Day from OCWM. Of necessity, this is a special mission project. We are grateful for the many stories of creative fund-raising about which we have heard: raffles, special offerings, auctions, bake sales, matching challenges. Even congregations with modest and struggling budgets have come forward to participate in this mission opportunity. Toward our goal of raising $90,000 from within the Conference for the Amistad visit, as of July 21st, we had received the following: $30,630 from 97 churches (out of a total of 429) To meet our goal of raising $90,000 from within the Conference we still need to raise $37,000. Gifts to assist in this effort can be sent to MACUCC, c/o Willie Sordillo, One Badger Road, Framingham MA 01702. Please mark the check and/or envelope, Amistad. Thank you for helping us to put wind in the sails of the Freedom Schooner
Amistad, a floating civil rights classroom whose port visits testify
to 53 heroic African captives and countless abolitionists, many of
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