We gather together
12/04/09Photos by
Heather Hahn
More than 120 United Methodist volunteers from across the state turned out at the Arkansas Rice Depot’s warehouse on Nov. 7 to help with Ingathering 2009. Wearing bright red “Rethink Church” T-shirts, they unloaded truckloads of relief supplies and stacked them onto pallets for delivery to Arkansans in need and Sager Brown, the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s depot in Baldwin, La.
Throughout the fall, congregations have been collecting contributions to the Arkansas Conference’s biggest annual mission project. This year’s haul included bedding, towels, birthing kits, sewing kits, hygiene items, school supplies and buckets of cleaning equipment. At press time, donations for the effort were still coming in.
So far, the Rice Depot collected 696 cases and buckets to be sent to Sager Brown and 369 cases and buckets to remain in Arkansas for disaster recovery.
