[Dialogue] UNCOR and small miracles

[aiseayew]

Thanks Linda and Suzanne for this timely message.

Here in Iowa we do a massive collection of items UMCOR distributes each 
fall.  They put out a call for all congregations that were assembling 
"health kits" for the fall in-gathering to send them immediately to 
collection points for distribution to hurricane victims.  This year our 
congregation was doing both health kits and seed kits, so on Thursday, our 
small congregation (fifteen people with an average attendance of ten) 
managed to have the after school program put together 47 "kits."  This may 
not seem like a big number, but it was really an astouding event to have our 
population of mostly Mexican chidren from the town work so hard to match 
towels and wash cloths and toothpaste and combs into ziploc bags.  The 
biggest struggle was "only" six bandaids, and then explaining to them why 
they could not put notes of encouragement in each of the bags.
Margaret