A team of 10 from Lakewood spent a week in Baldwin LA volunteering at the UMCOR Sager Brown facility. The Lakewood team was one of four teams on the Sager Brown campus that week, there were also teams from Jasper TX, Tennessee, and Virginia. By the end of the week, after eating most every meal together and working side by side every day, all 40 of the volunteers were getting to know each other very well.
During the week the team helped assemble and pack UMCOR Health Kits and School Kits, worked in the Sewing Room making cloth bags that are used in School Kits, and helped in local Community outreach doing home repair.
The kit assembly and the sewing work was done in The Depot, which is a very large warehouse. The sewing is done in a separate room off of The Depot and the kit assembly and packing is done at tables setup inside. It is estimated that the 4 teams combined assembled and packed some 4100 Health Kits and 3700 School Kits during the week.
The team also did a little sight-seeing in the area one afternoon, and some visited a local shelter for women and children called Chez Hope.
All the team had a wonderful week at Sager Brown. The kits will one day go out and help others in need somewhere in the world, we all are humbled at this thought. It was a joy to be a part of the marvelous ministry that is ongoing at Sager Brown.
All the team is very grateful for this amazing opportunity and experience. It is a blessing to be able to contribute to this ministry, and we all want to go back again next year!
Thanks to Lakewood, Sager Brown, and our Lord God.
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