The Mission Team of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Northfield
is spear heading an effort to collect supplies to help those in the
mid-west clean up after the recent flooding. Your help would make this
project a success! UMCOR is the relief agency of the United Methodist
Church. Here is a recent article from the Greater NJ Conference Digest.

UMCOR Sager Brown Depot has nearly depleted its supply of flood buckets
after shipping thousands of buckets in response to recent floods.  This
low inventory is a serious concern especially when the Atlantic
hurricane season is just beginning.

Depot executive, Kathy Kraiza, reports, "Since June 17, we have shipped
more than 5,000 flood buckets in response to requests from annual
conferences in the mid-west. We are down to only 200 flood buckets in
stock and we are only two weeks into the hurricane season."  Sager Brown
distributed 4,008 buckets in all of 2007. Increasing the supply of flood
buckets has become the most urgent need at the Depot, as communities in
the Midwest continue the clean-up process.

These five gallon buckets are filled with supplies to enable people to
begin the overwhelming job of cleaning up after a flood or hurricane.
UMCOR Sager Brown Depot and other United Methodist depots in the
connection collect, package and ship buckets to flooded areas all over
the United States.

UMCOR needs your help to ensure this kind of support continues to be
readily available. The many emergencies over the past months have
depleted response supplies with 6,624 flood buckets shipped to
emergencies around the country in the past six weeks.

Below is document with the items needed. If we get enough
buckets we will deliver them to Sager Brown in La.  If not we will ship
them UPS.

Together we can make a big difference.

Questions Contact: Howard R. Minnichbach, Mission Chair (seastarswg@comcast.net)