Update from UMCOR

UM relief committee calls for specific supplies to meet shelter needs
September 8

The United Methodist Committee on Relief issued a call Thursday for the following items:

+ Health Kits

+ School Kits

+ New Twin Sheets

+ New Pillows

+ New Blankets

+ Air mattresses

Health Kits and School Kits are collections of specific items that can be found on the relief committee website at: http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/print/kits/ . (Note - info on health kits can also be found further down on the weblog)

The Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin , La. , needs the items to meet needs of tens of thousand people in shelters along the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.

Four Southwest Texas sites have agreed to be collection points for health kits, flood buckets, blankets and other items intended for Sager Brown Depot:

+ Austin : Memorial UMC, 6100 Berkman Drive .

+ Corpus Christi : Grace UMC, 11222 Leopard St .

+ McAllen : Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley , 2601 Zinnia.

+ San Antonio : Windcrest UMC, 8101 Midcrown, Windcrest

Susan Hellums, Volunteers in Mission coordinator, is arranging to have a truck take the flood buckets, health kits and other items to Sager Brown later in September.

If you have things that you want to give, I would be glad to have someone come pick them up if you can't get them to the church.

peace,

will