Thanks to everyone who donated money for UMCOR relief in Haiti.  We have delivered over 75 medical kits  as well as cash donations.  We will keep you posted on other ways to assist the earthquake victims. 

 For UMCOR updates and videos go to www.UMCOR.org to see videos of current relief efforts

Thanks to everyone who sewed and decorated stockings for children of inmates and residents of juvenile detention halls in Kentuckiana. Shiloh delivered 112 stockings to Evangel Prison Ministry to be delivered ! Remember, you can sew stockings all year, so get a head start!

And scissors, and paper and glue and…
This is your chance to return to the aisles of colorful crayons and glue sticks.  This is your chance to make the first day of school for a child a pleasure, not an embarrassment.  This is your chance to support our Hispanic neighbors without struggling through a word of Spanish.

What: ‘adopt’ a child and provide supplies for their first day of school

How: take a tag from our display at church, with the supply list we’ll give you, and make a trip to Target, or Wal-Mart, or some office supply store

How (alternative): take a ‘shopper’ tag at church, give that person the money needed for that child and your personal shopper will do the rest

When: we need the supplies back, in a bag, tagged with the child’s name, by Sunday, August 10th

Why: The rabbis call it the 11th commandment from God:  “You do too know what I mean.”  So, remember that we, too, were strangers in Egypt and we, too, were told by Jesus to care for the hungry, the thirsty, the poor.  And crayons are fun to buy and a happy child is always a good thing.