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About Our Auction
The Alternative Gift Market includes "God's Bidding Online"a silent auction featuring gifts & donations from church members who offer their time, service, talents, or beautiful objects and vacation homes to help raise money to Church World Service (CWS) and the InterFaith Council (IFC).
When members, friends and others "win" these items through generous bidding, the money they pay goes not to the donor but to Church World Service (CWS) and the InterFaith Council (IFC). This is our third year of providing support to CWS's School Safe Zones project in Eastern Kenya.
The goal for God's Bidding 2018 is $12,000 and the proceeds will be split between the IFC (Inter Faith Council, which supports people with a variety of needs in our community) and CWS (Church World Service).
About United Church of Chapel Hill
The congregation of United Church of Chapel Hill is a community of people from diverse religious traditions; from that diversity comes much of its richness and strength.
In keeping with the heritage and policy of our denomination, the United Church of Christ, and our local church, United Church of Chapel Hill is a congregational church, governed by the will of the congregation through elected governing boards that establish and supervise our policies and programs. This democratic process ensures that United Church, its ministry and programs remain vital and relevant to the congregation and the community we se
UCCH’s annual Alternative Gift Market has reclaimed the Christmas story by offering an alternative to the consumer frenzy that has taken over the Christmas season. The story is simple: God loves the world and God gave a life-changing gift to the world.
The annual Alternative Gift Market provides many opportunities to purchase GIFTS THAT GIVE TWICE for loved ones that will, in turn, help alleviate human poverty and suffering. God's Bidding is a wonderful and fun way to participate in compassionate gift-giving.