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Extra Commitment Opportunities
There is a channel through which gifts can be designated for specific items that support the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s work around the world. These are called Extra Commitment Opportunities (ECOs). You can give directly to an ECO account online or by mailing your check designating the name and account number of the particular item you have chosen to:
PC(USA) Individual Remittance Processing
P.O. Box 643700
Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700 Your gift will go directly into the ECO Account designated,
and you will receive a letter indicating that your gift has
been received and will be used for the purpose intended.
Below are some ECOs related to Romania. For a complete
listing visit Mission
Funding's Web site and type Romania into the search box. |
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Children and Youth
Children of Romania
Contributions to this fund will give new hope to thousands of Romanian children living in poverty and isolation caused by this country's disastrous economic situation, dysfunctional families and poverty. The efforts of PC(USA) to help these children include joining the Orthodox and Reformed Churches in Romania in supporting AIDRom with its emphasis on street children. |
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Goal: $30,000 |
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Big-Hearted Grannies
Noroc is Romanian for "God Bless." This reflects the mission to share God's blessings by providing New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children spiritually, developmentally, socially and medically. Over 125,000 abandoned children are in need of love in Romanian orphanages. The Big-Hearted Grannies program provides them with loving care and also provides retired Romanian citizens a chance to make a difference. This program gives individual attention and sensory therapy to nearly 200 babies and toddlers in orphanages in Tulcea, Romania, while the Big-Hearted Teachers and Friends assist the school-age children. The Rev. Mary Ferris successfully nurtures the spiritual lives of these orphans and prepares older orphans to lead productive lives after they leave the institutions. |
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051603 |
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Goal: $85,000 |
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Casuta Noastra (Our Little Home)
Casuta Noastra is a Christian foundation based in Iasi, Romania, that is focused on meeting the needs of the orphaned and abandoned children of Romania. It carries out projects in three areas: assisting in the de-institutionalizing of the state orphanages; assisting in the educational, social, emotional and spiritual development of institutionalized children; and assisting the children in the transition from life in an orphanage to life in a family or on their own. |
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047983 |
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Goal: $40,000 |
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Shelter of Care Association
Shelter of Care is an outreach ministry that provides support, guidance and hope to young teenage girls who have lived most of their lives institutionalized in orphanages. Shelter of Care hopes to expand in order to touch the lives of children who currently have little hope or help for their future, to provide shelter, security, protection and the assurance that they are not alone and that people care about their welfare. |
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051672 |
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Goal: $6,000 |
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Education
Romanian English Language Project
Funds are urgently needed to provide educational materials and faculty training opportunities for the new PC(USA) English as a Foreign Language program in Romania. This ECO project will furnish textbooks, workbooks, teacher’s manuals, cassettes, visuals and related instructional aids. Funds will also be used for teacher development seminars, special lectures and TEFL symposiums. This exciting new educational ministry, which serves hundreds of seminarians, teachers and high school youth in the Transylvania district, is the first venture of its kind since the revolution, and it marks an immediate response to an invitation from our Christian sisters and brothers who are only now emerging from years of tyranny and oppression. |
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862454 |
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Goal: $20,000 |
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Evangelism
Roma Europe PFF
Gifts to this ECO will assist the PC(USA)'s effort to minister to the Roma of Europe. The funds will support this ministry and the program expenses of Burkhard Paetzold as he works with European partners to develop ministry that proclaims the Good News to the Roma in a holistic manner. |
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040061 |
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Goal: $15,000 |
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Mission Personnel
The Rev. Mary Ferris — Ministry to Orphans
Mary Ferris, an ordained PC(USA) minister, assists the staff of New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children with three programs: (1) Big-Hearted Grannies, which employs retired persons to give individual attention to infants and toddlers; (2) Big-Hearted Teachers, in which retired teachers tutor students; (3) Big-Hearted Friends, which focuses on life-skills training and transitional employment for older children.
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E074707 |
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