Fifth Week in Lent (March 29-April 5)
Metal nail clippers (attached file optional)

As part of our Lenten journey this year, we will be collecting items to assemble Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). We will be helping to provide basic hygiene items to people throughout the world who are afflicted by war, displacement, poverty and natural disasters. This is a simple, but important way to share God’s grace and love by providing some of life’s essential items, as well as reminding them that they are not alone. Each week during Lent we will collect a different item for the kits. Each Personal Care Kit consists of a bath towel, 2-3 bars of soap, and a toothbrush, comb and nail clipper. All items should be new. LWR also adds toothpaste when the kits are given to those in need at the destination site. Please put all items in the marked bin in the narthex. After Easter, the 6th grade Sunday School class will be assembling the kits and preparing them for delivery.

Fourth Week in Lent (March 22-29)
Sturdy combs

As part of our Lenten journey this year, we will be collecting items to assemble Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). We will be helping to provide basic hygiene items to people throughout the world who are afflicted by war, displacement, poverty and natural disasters. This is a simple, but important way to share God’s grace and love by providing some of life’s essential items, as well as reminding them that they are not alone. Each week during Lent we will collect a different item for the kits. Each Personal Care Kit consists of a bath towel, 2-3 bars of soap, and a toothbrush, comb and nail clipper. All items should be new. LWR also adds toothpaste when the kits are given to those in need at the destination site. Please put all items in the marked bin in the narthex. After Easter, the 6th grade Sunday School class will be assembling the kits and preparing them for delivery.

Third Week in Lent (March 15-22)
One adult sized toothbrush in original packaging

As part of our Lenten journey this year, we will be collecting items to assemble Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). We will be helping to provide basic hygiene items to people throughout the world who are afflicted by war, displacement, poverty and natural disasters. This is a simple, but important way to share God’s grace and love by providing some of life’s essential items, as well as reminding them that they are not alone. Each week during Lent we will collect a different item for the kits. Each Personal Care Kit consists of a bath towel, 2-3 bars of soap, and a toothbrush, comb and nail clipper. All items should be new. LWR also adds toothpaste when the kits are given to those in need at the destination site. Please put all items in the marked bin in the narthex. After Easter, the 6th grade Sunday School class will be assembling the kits and preparing them for delivery.

Second Week in Lent (March 7-14)
Two or three bars of bath soap (8-9 oz. total), in original wrapping

Link to Amazon Wish List

As part of our Lenten journey this year, we will be collecting items to assemble Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). We will be helping to provide basic hygiene items to people throughout the world who are afflicted by war, displacement, poverty and natural disasters. This is a simple, but important way to share God’s grace and love by providing some of life’s essential items, as well as reminding them that they are not alone. Each week during Lent we will collect a different item for the kits. Each Personal Care Kit consists of a bath towel, 2-3 bars of soap, and a toothbrush, comb and nail clipper. All items should be new. LWR also adds toothpaste when the kits are given to those in need at the destination site.

Please put all items in the marked bin in the narthex. After Easter, the 6th grade Sunday School class will be assembling the kits and preparing them for delivery.

First Week in Lent (Feb. 29-March 6)
One light-weight bath towel, dark color recommended, size between 20”x40” and 27”x52”

Link to Amazon Wish List

As part of our Lenten journey this year, we will be collecting items to assemble Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). We will be helping to provide basic hygiene items to people throughout the world who are afflicted by war, displacement, poverty and natural disasters. This is a simple, but important way to share God’s grace and love by providing some of life’s essential items, as well as reminding them that they are not alone. Each week during Lent we will collect a different item for the kits. Each Personal Care Kit consists of a bath towel, 2-3 bars of soap, and a toothbrush, comb and nail clipper. All items should be new. LWR also adds toothpaste when the kits are given to those in need at the destination site.

Please put all items in the marked bin in the narthex. After Easter, the 6th grade Sunday School class will be assembling the kits and preparing them for delivery.

February is our month to stock the ECHO food pantry. Our goal is 3,000 pounds of non-perishable food and detergent. We are hoping to provide enough laundry detergent to see ECHO through 2020. As of February 19, we had collected 2,235 lbs. Items can be brought through the end of the month.

Abiding Presence is collecting old prescription eyeglasses through November 13 for the Lions Club vision project. Since 1925 the Lions Club has collected and sent usable prescription glasses to people throughout the world who are sight impaired, but are unable to afford eyeglasses and/or have no access to regular vision care. Please bring in your old glasses and put them in the designated collection bin located above the coat rack in the entrance. Glasses can be dropped off anytime the church is open.

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