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Williams will be taking a group of all ages to  the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La from Sunday August 7th through Friday August 12!  to do work for UMCOR (United Methodist Committee of Relief)  We will be assembling kits of some sort; probably health kits or cleaning kits due to the recent natural disasters.

Contact Kaitlin McMichael or Tommy Earl Burton ASAP if you would like to attend. Spots are limited!

According to the UMCOR Website At least 8 million Pakistanis are in dire need of emergency assistance—food, clean water, and shelter; more than 20 million have been affected. The United Nations says the disaster’s toll is comparable to the combined toll of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2004 Indonesia tsunami, and 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

Your help is urgently needed and you can do so in two ways. You may write a check and bring it to the church. Please make sure and put Pakistan Floods on the memo line of your check. Second you may donate directly by using the Disaster Response, International online donation form

photo courtesy Oxfam International

Our youths response to the earthquake in Haiti has been to challenge our congregation during the months of January, February, and March to raise enough money for 500 UMCOR health kits. As of February 11th, we have raised $1,956.10. At an approximate cost of $12 per health kit, we have so far raised enough money for 163 kits. We only have 337 kits or $4,043.90 to reach our goal.

As of February 9, 2010, over 100,000 health kits have been assembled at the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La. This has been a wonderful response to the earthquake. Health kits provide the basic necessities for those who have been forced to leave their homes. They are such a blessing to those who have lost everything. To learn more about health kits go to the following UMCOR web site. http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/supplies/health-kit/

“Thank you for your generous support. Health kits are still needed and being accepted at all United Methodist depots. UMCOR is securing warehouse space in Haiti to which the kits will be shipped and from which they will be distributed to a population that urgently needs them.” (From the UMCOR website http://new.gbgm-umc.org/Umcor/)

“The UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La., is the headquarters for UMCORs relief supply operations. Approximately $4 million in supplies are shipped each year from the Baldwin, La. campus. More than 2,000 volunteers that come through Sager Brown each year make these shipments happen.”

(From the UMCOR Sager Brown website http://sagerbrown.org/)

It is going to be many years before Haiti completely recovers from this disaster, and UMCOR has long range work plans in place that consist of 3 phases over the next 5 years. Our youth have plans as well. They are going to be volunteering this summer at the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La. Thank you for supporting UMCOR. Thank you for supporting our youth group. Please continue to pray for Haiti. God bless!

In Christian love

Tommy Earl Burton

Williams Memorial Youth are responding to the earthquake in Haiti. This Sunday WM Youth asks that all monetary donations go directly to Haiti earthquake relief. For the months of January, February, and March WM Youth “Change The World” campaign will focus on UMCOR health kits. The youth are challenging the church to donate 500 health kits at an approximate cost of $12 per kit. However; this Sunday the youth asks that you please give directly to Haiti earthquake relief. More information about our health kit challenge will be coming out soon. The following information has already been sent out, but is important enough to mention once again.