Midwest Mission Distribution Center 1022 New City Road, PO Box 56 Chatham, IL 62629 Phone: 217.483.7911 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.midwestmissiondc.org
April 2016
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Save the dates for Annual Conference!! Great Plains—NE & KS
June 1-4
Iowa
June 4-6
Northern Illinois
June 5-7
West Ohio
June 5-9
Detroit & West Michigan
June 8–13
IGRC
June 8-11
Indiana
June 9-11
Wisconsin
June 10-13
East Ohio
June 13-16
Minnesota
June 21-23
We would like to thank Marilyn Spatz from Overland Park, KS for being the Volunteer Coordinator for the first 3 weeks of March. Ron and Sharon Monroe from Fairbury, IL were back to finish off the month!! We appreciate all your hard work!! Wash Cloths - new Hand towels - new- no kitchen, cleaning or microfiber Bath size bars of soap - no Ivory, Jergens or Oil of Olay
Please send all monetary donations to MMDC PO Box 56, Chatham, IL 62629
Check our new wish list at www.dollardays.com/midwestmission/wishlist.html
ADK (Alpha Delta Kappa—Beta Epsilon) - Ambitious teachers from Basehor, Kansas (metro KC) spent Martin Luther King Day (their day off) making school bags. At the regular meeting of ADK in November, teachers donated 5 boxes of teacher school supplies.
We want to thank them for all their dedication and hard work.
First UMC - Pana, IL United Methodist Women raised $342 for MMDC’s Cleaning Buckets by selling cookies. What a great way to spread a little love at their own church and impact many more nationally.
March
YEAR TO DATE
191
509
2,381
6,654
12,615 pounds
73,048 pounds
19
39
34,769 pounds
125,769 pounds
VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEER HOURS DONATIONS RECEIVED SHIPMENTS DONATIONS DISTRIBUTED
Shipments in March 2016 Hope School in Cabaret, Haiti (1st UMC - Springfield, IL Mission Team) - 59 Children’s School Bags Springfield Bike Club for the Boys and Girls Club of Springfield, IL - 14 bikes UMCOR Sager Brown– 1,872 cleaning buckets Mission International, Haiti - Medical Supplies - 1,485 pounds Faith Coalition for the Common Good - 55 Children’s School Bags Camelot Center - bike; stuffed animals; cleaning, health care and school supplies and refrigerator
The mission of the Midwest Mission Distribution Center is to compassionately help God’s people in need locally, nationally and around the world and to offer a center to fulfill the call for service to our neighbors in Christ’s Name.