In case you were wondering...

In case you have been in the gym at Grace and are wondering why all the flood buckets and health kits are still there, here is the info from the conference office:

The United Methodist Committee on Relief has asked Southwest Texans to delay their shipment of hurricane-recovery supplies for a week. With the approach of Hurricane Rita, officials at the committee's Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin , La. , have said they may send the flood buckets and health kits from Southwest Texas straight to a disaster site. That's the word from Susan Hellums, Southwest Texas Conference Volunteers in Mission coordinator. Southwest Texas United Methodists have been assembling flood buckets filled with cleanup supplies and health kits containing personal hygiene items since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Aug. 29. Items were to have been picked up Tuesday. Church members now have an additional week to gather aid items, Hellums said.

Feel free to keep bringing them in! UMCOR needs them more than ever.

peace,