Some notes on Missions

Had a great day Saturday. The Laity of the United Methodist Church in Iowa have what we call Ingathering on the 1st Saturday of November. We have five sites in Iowa where we collect money and various types of kits. Some of the kits go to Nigeria as part of Iowa's Iowa-Nigeria partnership. Most of them go to the UMCOR depot in Louisiana, where they are stockpiled for disasters around the world including here in the US. Our site raised $235,000 in cash and kits for Ingathering. The preliminary total for all five sites is $965,892. We filled at least two semi's with kits. When people and churches work together, a lot can be accomplished.