Where Will the Money Go

In the spirit of the Millennium Development Goals we encourage you to send your gifts and spend your time in the place that best fit your passion.

Money collected through the Alleluia Booklet will be used to sponsor a woman on Kiva.org.

Kiva.org is a place where ordinary people can give micro-loans to unique small businesses in developing countries. Each person who receives a loan through Kiva.org is vetted by a credible non-profit and they have a high rate of loan re-payment.

Micro-loans have consistently lowered poverty and hunger and improved education levels. When we choose to give loans to women we directly empower them.

As a participant in this Easter journey we ask you to do one (or more) of the following:

• send your offering to Gethsemane to be given on Kiva.org
  
• send your offering to Gethsemane to be used for our Alleluia Fund - a fund we will use to further our mission in the world - we will discern the specific use of this fund during Lent
• send your offering directly to an organization working toward the Millennium Development Goals
  

If you choose to send money directly to an organization we ask that you let us know. We would like to track the effect of our community's efforts toward the Millennium Development Goals. We also love hearing about (and spreading the word about) organizations that others support.

Please share your favorite organizations with us by posting a comment or let us know through email - 50alleluias@gmail.com.