What We are Doing...

Thank you to everyone who is helping already with the relief effort. On Sunday alone, we raised over $4500 for UMCOR and local assistance. I am told that checks continue to roll in.

We have already distributed a number of health kits to local shelters. This is a continuing urgent need. The UMCOR-Sager Brown depot supplies these not only for relief efforts here in the U.S., they send them all over the world. Their resources are tapped and they cannot get them fast enough. We will be able to have these trucked right to Louisiana to restock the warehouse.

A Health Kit contains specific items:

1 hand towel (15"” x 25"” up to 17"” x 27"”)
1 wash cloth
1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)
1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz and up)
1 toothbrush (single brush only in original wrapper; no child-sized brushes)
1 large tube of toothpaste (4.5 or larger, expiration date must be 6 months or longer in advance of the date of shipment to Sager Brown)
6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages

All items should be placed inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag. No money, notes, religious or political literature, or other items should be placed in the kits. In a seperate envelope, please also provide $1.00 per kit to cover distribution costs. You can make that check out to Grace UMC and we will send one check with all the kits.

You can bring completed kits by the church, or if you need, I can pick them up.

You can read more about it here.

I will let you know as soon as I can the date the truck will be going. However, we can keep working past that. While the acute need will subside, UMCOR will always need these.

Thank you for all you are already doing.

peace,

will