United
Methodist Women kit-up for disaster responseGAINESVILLE
The Gainesville Districts United Methodist Women (UMW) spent a day recently sorting
and assembling more than 240 school kits and 170 health kits at the Florida
Conferences Disaster Response supply depot in High Springs, Fla., according to Lisa
Rhan, one of the conferences disaster response coordinators.
The supplies for the school kits were collected by conference youth at the Confirmation
Convocation last March. The UMW sewed 90 bags for the school kits and is asking women from
the conferences other 13 districts to sew more cloth bags. The Gainesville women
collected supplies for the health kits.
The day at the depot was the annual workday for the Gainesville UMW and involved women
from many of the districts churches. The UMW are active kit collectors
year-round, but plan this annual event to help the depot catch up on kit stock, Rhan
said.
For more information on the various kinds of kits churches may collect, contact Lisa
Rhan at 386-454-7775 or LISAXBIRD@aol.com