Church collects supplies for Haiti

By: Staff Reports | McDowell News
Published: January 21, 2010

With each passing day, the extent of the need in Haiti becomes more clear. With as many as 200,000 dead, the devastated Caribbean nation now must find support for more than a million left homeless by this month's earthquake.
Lisa Williams, the associate pastor for faith development at the First Baptist Church of Marion, has requested urgent help in gathering supplies to be sent to Haiti.
"We will be collecting emergency items for the people of Haiti beginning Sunday," she said. "Donations will be accepted in the church's fellowship hall from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. Sunday through Saturday of next week."
She said items needed include tents, tarps, ropes, generators, gasoline cans, cooking pots and utensils, towels, blankets, sheets, canned food (with flip open tops), canned pasta meals, powdered baby formula, bottles, diapers, garbage bags, shovels, buckets, rice, beans in 10- to 20-pound bags, cooking oil, peanut butter, jelly, batteries, flashlights, matches, gauze bandages, Neosporin and feminine hygiene items.
She suggested donors prepare personal hygiene kits in a 1-gallon Ziplock bag. Please pack it with bar soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, washcloth, Neosporin and adhesive bandages.
"One hundred percent of these donations will be given to Touch the World Ministries of Morganton," she said. "This organization will take all physical supplies collected from our area and truck them to Miami, where they will be loaded onto a ship bound for Haiti."
For more information, contact the First Baptist Church at 652-6030.

Church collects supplies for Haiti

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