Your gift is an investment in the future leadership of the church and the global community ensuring continuing ministry for generations to come. Express your heartfelt commitment to the Christian faith. Give generously on World Communion Sunday. It will make a world of difference.

Three-year-old Megan wasn’t her usual ebullient self when her parents picked her up from preschool. The car door was hardly shut when she dissolved into tears. “Taylor is having a birthday party and I’m not invited.” She cried as if her heart would break.

There’s something different about the invitation Jesus sends. Everyone is included. “Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another.”

In The United Methodist Church, the sacrament of Holy Communion is open to all believers. “Fbr where two or three are gathered in my name,” Jesus told his disciples, “I am there among them” (Matthew 18:20). As we celebrate Holy Communion in a variety of settings—local churches, college campuses, retreat centers—we unite with our sisters and brothers around the world.

Your gift is an investment in the future leadership of the church and the global community ensuring continuing ministry for generations to come.

Through your special World Communion Sunday gift you support:

• Crusade Scholarships for international and U.S. racial and ethnic-minority students to pursue graduate studies;

• scholarships for racial and ethnic-minority persons seeking second careers in church-related vocations; and

• Ethnic Scholarships for undergraduate students.

United Methodists participate in this special celebration, gathering believers in the name of Jesus Christ. Everyone is invited!

Express your heartfelt commitment to the Christian faith. Celebrate the connectional ministries made possible when you give through your local church. Give generously on World Communion Sunday. It will make a world of difference.