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Please PRAY for the people of Haiti!
Make your donation payable to St. Paul's with the Advance #418325 in the memo line. Every penny that is contributed to this United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) Advance will go directly to helping the people of Haiti. United Methodists have raised more than $1 million for relief work in Haiti.
ONGOING SUPPORT OF UMCOR
Health Kits for Haiti
- 1 gallon Ziploc plastic bag
- 1 hand towel (15" x 25" up to 17" x 27". No kitchen towels.
- 1 washcloth
- 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 brushes only in original wrapper, no child-size brushes)
- 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
- $1.00 to purchase toothpaste
St. Paul's will be collecting the Health Kits on an on-going basis. We have a volunteer who delivered the first batch (7 Boxes) to Mission Central. We would also like a volunteer or two to help organize and box up the kits, if you are interested please contact the Church Office.
Stories of and from Haiti
o http://www.oursoil.org/ If you are interested in on-the-ground info by those other than government or media, please go to this site.
o A website with all the Haiti UM news information and a Volunteer data form for people who would like to volunteer is now active at www.umvimhaiti.org
FROM MISSION CENTRAL
20,026 Health Kits were sent out last week with a pallet of toothpaste and a pallet of school kits. Now with the generous outpouring of so many, we are re-stocking and waiting for the next UMCOR call to ship supplies that are needed. This is the blessing of a “connectional system”--what a blessing to be working together across the Northeast Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Haiti.
Let me tell you just about Friday, Feb. 5th. As we faced a major winter storm in the forecast, these supplies, among others came in to Mission Central:
* 2 Mission Central HUBs delivered kits
* a BIG truck from the West Virginia Conference of the UM Church was unloaded with more than 8,000 kits from across their conference with equal money to purchase toothpaste and transport the kits
* another truck arrived from New Jersey with many kits
* a mother along with her 2 small children brought in some kits they had put together
* 3 1/2 pallets of medical supplies arrived from New York
THE VIM TEAM for PENINSULA-DELAWARE CONFERENCE is asking people to pray for God to lift up leadership for establishing a MISSION HUB [a smaller version of Mission Central] here in Peninsula-Delaware Conference. The site will be chosen by the leadership that emerges...so it is not yet set as to even which district it will be in. Once the leadership is in place, the location will be the easier part. Please prayerfully consider if God is calling you to serve in this new ministry. Contact Pastor Karin if you are interested.
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