Monday, October 03, 2005

Send a truck load of supplies from your church


Jason Corder from Crowley, LA (www.foresetparkchurch.org) has sent word that the victims of Hurricane Rita need our help.

They could use the following items.

  1. shampoo
  2. soap
  3. men’s/women’s razors
  4. shaving cream
  5. feminine products
  6. toilet paper
  7. diapers
  8. underclothing but no other clothing
  9. cleaning supplies
  10. bleach
  11. buckets
  12. mops
  13. disinfectants
  14. dish detergent
  15. laundry soap
  16. brooms
Do NOT send:
Clothes other than underwear
Furnature
Baby wipes

Why not have your church send a load of supplies down this week?

These are all the towns Crowley had sent help to after Katrina. Now they need help after Rita!


2 Corinthians 8:1-14 "And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. 3 For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints. And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God’s will. So we urged Titus, since he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. But just as you excel in everything— in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us—see that you also excel in this grace of giving. I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have. Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality..."