How to Help
Tangible Love grants are supported through the church's Oblation Fund. Give to the oblation fund in the following ways:
- First Sunday Offering: All non-designated money shared in the congregational offering trays on the first Sunday of each month goes into the oblation fund.
- Offering Envelopes: Designate giving to oblation on the World Ministries side of your weekly Mission Tithes envelope.
- Contribute Online: Donate to oblation using your credit/debit card. This can be a one time-event or an on-going monthly charge.
- Pre-Authorized Monthly Checking Account Transfer (PAT): Donate to oblation through regular monthly contributions using electronic fund transfer.
- Postal Mail: Contribute through postal mail by sending your contributions to:
Community of Christ
ATTN: Presiding Bishopric
1001 W. Walnut
Independence MO 64050-3562
Types of Projects Funded by Tangible Love grants
Continued contributions to the Oblation Fund will make the following types of ministry possible as congregations and other jurisdictions of the Community of Christ join with their community members to bring together leadership, volunteers, and financial resources.
These are the types of projects that have been funded to date:
- Advancing peace and understanding among diverse religious and cultural communities
- After-school program for neighborhood latchkey children
- AIDS education and hospice care
- Brick Making
- Camping experience for abused and neglected children
- Chronic mentally ill adults
- Clothes closet and computer lab
- Community reconciliation/mediation services
- Family Focused Parenting
- Furniture Program
- Helping multicultural persons to integrate in American culture
- Homeless families to progress to self-sufficiency
- Kids after school drop-in center
- Learn and explore peaceful resolution of disputes
- Neighborhood enhancement using gifts of teens
- Parolee and immigrant assistance
- Peace Mobiles, museums, and community Young Peacemakers Club initiatives
- Recently released prisoners and at risk children
- Domestic violence shelter
- Temporary shelter for families with children
- Training disadvantaged, low-income persons on new technology
Be assured that your jurisdiction is NOT limited to these ministries. You may very well be called to create a new ministry to address a unique need in your community.