Drop-off points announced for hands-on project
Churches are gearing up for Annual Conference 2003 by collecting food, health, and school supplies for three countries in Africa.
The annual "hands-on" mission project involves all 931 Holston congregations, which are collecting supplies assigned by district. For example, Wytheville District is assembling 250 health kits (towels, toothpaste, shampoo) for Ishe Anesu mission in Zimbabwe. Morristown is assembling 300 teacher kits (chalk, dictionaries, notebooks) for Methodist schools in Liberia.
Kenya also is benefiting from the annual spring mission project. On May 4, churches took up a conference-wide offering with a goal of $125,000 for Kenya Methodist University. Abingdon, Kingsport and Johnson City Districts are collecting school supplies for school children in Kenya.
To download a brochure with details about Holston's annual missions project, go to www.holston.org/missions. Congregations should drop off kits to designated locations within their districts on the following dates:
Abingdon
Pleasant View UMC (Abingdon)
June 2, 9-noon or 1-4 p.m.
Big Stone Gap
District office
June 4 by 5 p.m.
Chattanooga
Brainerd UMC gym
June 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cleveland
First Cleveland UMC gym
June 4-5, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Johnson City
First Johnson City UMC
June 2-5, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Kingsport
First Broad Street UMC
June 5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Knoxville
St. Luke UMC
June 6, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Maryville
Fairview UMC
June 2-5 during business hours
Morristown
District office
By June 4
Oak Ridge
Kern Memorial UMC
June 2-3, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
June 4, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Tazewell
Ebenezer UMC (Bluefield)
June 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
June 5, 4-7 p.m.
Wytheville
Mt. Pleasant UMC
June 6, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
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