Former pastors going on a mission trip!
Alta Smith is joining Rev. David and Marion Zaske on a mission trip to Sager Brown Depot. While we are there we will work in the depot and also on homes still in need of repair from Hurricane Katrina. While the mission team have paid all of their own expenses we are asking our churches to make donations to the Depot for their ongoing work rather than taking supplies which would entail shipping costs. On April 6th our church will receive a special offering for Sager Brown Depot which Alta will carry with her when she goes. Please consider a generous gift on that Sunday to help our mission work for the people beyond our doors.
Help Sager Brown Deliver Kits of Hope
In Georgia, happy faces, smiles and hundreds of cheerful voices filled a room when children saw the arrival of school kits, health kits and sewing kits donated by UMCOR last September. UMCOR Georgia and a local partner, the Fund to Support Disabled IDP Children, jointly distributed the kits to 300 displaced children, including 55 physically and mentally disabled children from Abkhazia, who live at the Collective Center for Internally Displaced Persons. Seven-year-old Gio said excitedly, “This is the happiest day in my life. Thank you for this.”
Every day lives around the world are touched by the gifts you give to UMCOR. Large tangible items like food, clothing, shelter and clean water are gifts of survival. But it’s also the smaller everyday gifts—a needle, thread, a ruler, a pen, a pillow or sheet—contained in an UMCOR supply kit that is bringing hope in a more personal way.
Supplies Are Low
UMCOR's relief supply warehouse, the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La., needs your support to provide much-needed bedding, sewing and layette kits for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Sager Brown has received fewer kits over the last year and stocks are becoming alarmingly low.
Sager Brown is especially requesting donations for 33,000 layette kits, 64,000 sewing kits and approximately 1,000 bedding kits to meet upcoming needs. Donations for all kits are needed to prepare for uncertain times and future relief efforts. The Sager Brown Depot is accepting complete kits as well as items in bulk.