Five representatives of the United Church, including Moderator Mardi Tindal, travelled to Haiti to show love and support for our Haitian sisters and brothers after the earthquake in January 2010. Our Haitian partners, including the Methodist Church of Haiti, asked the five visitors to thank you. Your generosity to the Mission and Service Fund has enabled them to provide education, sustainable agriculture and more. Your donations through the Haiti Earthquake Appeal in 2010 helped provide essential supplies of food and water. We can keep on supporting the people of Haiti through funds raised by the continuing appeal and M&S.

The Mission and Service Fund logo has many meanings. Here are a few of them.

• The logo can be thought to symbolize the different races, for our mission is shared with others. The colours symbolize different nationalities and races, but different people united as one -starting from one place but fanning out in different directions.

• Another interpretation might be to think of the logo as a table for a base filled with holy food. This is the wealth we share in common as a country, community and church. The table is bending in on itself due to the weight of the abundant possessions we have in North America. Yet in bending, the table moves toward being a circle, reminding us of the need for balance and completeness in life.

• Or the logo can be thought of as open hands, giving freely and lovingly to others. The Mission and Service Fund logo works as a reminder of our ongoing support to the Mission work of our church.

Your gifts to the Mission and Service Fund make this work possible.

M&S BUGLE, February 2008
M&S BUGLE, November 2006