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ANNUAL CONFERENCE DONATIONS

Michigan Conference 2,988 pounds Indiana Conference 2,256 pounds

Minnesota Conference 6,011 pounds Iowa Conference 6,783 pounds

Northern Illinois Conference 5,081 pounds East Ohio Conference 17,425 pounds

West Ohio Conference 3,055 pounds Wisconsin Conference 16,807 pounds

Illinois Great Rivers Conference 3,601 pounds Kentucky Conference 2,625 pounds

Over 66,000 pounds of donations were collected at 10 annual conferences this year, thanks to the help of many dedicated drivers and volunteers! Your generosity and God’s grace are never more evident than when the Center is full of these donations. Teams are already hard at work sorting and counting and getting them ready to go where they are needed

most. This year the donations included Cleaning Kit supplies, School Kits, Hygiene and Personal Dignity Kits, Layette Kits, and so much more! At the Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference, supplies were collected for a new Tornado response kit

that has been created, on a trial basis, to better respond to survivors of tornadoes.

Dick and Judy Sena at the Michigan Annual Conference in Traverse City

Stan and Jennie Lowrey at the Iowa Annual Conference

in Des Moines

Dick and Judy Sena at the West Ohio Annual Conference in Lakeside. This is Judy with

one of the West Ohio volunteers.

Chantel Corrie, Pat Wright, and Maddy Barrett (not pictured) were at the Illinois Great Rivers

Conference in Peoria

Stan and Jennie Lowrey at the Wisconsin Annual Conference in Middleton

Board member Sandy Bittner and her team at the East Ohio Annual Conference

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.

SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS June YTD 2017

VOLUNTEERS 282 1,383 2,314

VOLUNTEER HOURS 3,402 16,774 33,217

DONATIONS RECEIVED (Pounds) 84,316 305,141 668,703

SHIPMENTS - International 0 11 29

SHIPMENTS - Domestic 14 87 201

DONATIONS DISTRIBUTED (Pounds) 37,858 256,365 909,031

JUNE VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

Donna Downen returned as Volunteer Coordinator for 2 weeks in June. Donna lives in Tolono, IL where she is active on the technology team at Tolono UMC. Retired from the University of Illinois, she now facilitates at The Giving Place, a food pantry and clothing ministry, and enjoys spending time with her son and his family, including her 3 teenage grandsons. Donna also has a daughter who is married and lives in New Hampshire. It is always a joy to have Donna here and she enjoys meeting all the volunteers serving at Midwest Mission.

With the month of June behind us, our thoughts turn to...school supplies!

It is hard to believe, but the requests for school supply kits are beginning to pile up in Illinois - 2 for the US and 1 for Columbia. There are also a lot of questions about this popular kit.

1) Are you still using the 1-handled cloth bag for Midwest Mission’s “Student School Bag”? Yes! These kits will continue to be shipped in the handmade cloth bags that so many of you love to sew.

2) Will you accept the 2-handled bags that were made for the UMCOR School Kit? (UMCOR recently announced that their School Kit will not include a cloth bag.) Yes, 2-handled bags will be accepted but if you are making them, we encourage you to switch to the one-handled bag or one of the many other sewn items we need. The patterns are available on our website at midwestmission.org/projects/patterns or we can mail them to you. UMCOR made this change because they are no longer sending their kits internationally, but Midwest Mission will continue to support local and international needs with the Midwest Mission Student School Bag.

3) Are there any changes to the MMDC Student School Bag? Yes. The recipients of these kits have suggested the protractor be replaced with glue, so glue sticks will be substituted for the outdated protractor.

3 spiral, 1 subject notebooks (8” x 10 1/2”) 3 Pens - blue or black 3 unsharpened pencils 1 pencil sharpener 1 pencil eraser - 2” or larger

1 ruler - 12” long with metric 1 box of 24 crayons 1 pair of round tip scissors (no plastic

scissors) 3 glue sticks

Each Midwest Mission Student School Bag Contains:

PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEWEST STAFF MEMBER

Barb Hedinger began at Midwest Mission as a volunteer before being hired as the Staff Volunteer Coordinator in April of 2018. She can be found anywhere from the Kit Room to the warehouses, coordinating and assisting volunteers and working with the visiting Volunteer Coordinators. Her goal is to make sure that everyone is having a wonderful experience at Midwest Mission. Barb lives in an 1869 farmhouse just around the corner from the farm where she grew up. She has a degree in education from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has taught Kindergarten, first grade and homeschool. She has a sweet husband (Steve), three fantastic daughters (Hallie, Hannah and Grace), and two crazy cats (Nelson and Lewis). Barb’s prayer for Midwest Mission: “That the love and prayers of the donors, volunteers and staff, infused into each item that passes through Midwest Mission, will envelop each recipient in God’s amazing and powerful love and peace.”