HELP: 5 Families in Need Following Fire
June 5, 2010 by Brian Smith
update: 6/9
We have determined that there is a need for furniture, especially bedroom stuff as the bedrooms of the units were destroyed since they were on the upper levels. Stuff that we can take: beds (frame & mattresses), dressers, cribs, change tables, kitchen tables, chairs, sofa, tv stand/entertainment center, etc… Please contact us BEFORE you drop stuff off by emailing Brian here.
We have an opportunity to BE the church for some people in our community with a BIG need….
Last night a fire claimed the homes of 5 families in a complex in Cottage Grove. A big need for these people is clothing, cards to Target, Cub, Rainbow, etc.
We are collecting the following clothing items, if you can help out please bring items to church and place in/around the shopping cart where food shelf donations are made:
- L-3XL Women’s Clothing
- 0-3mo Boys
- 2T-5T – Boy’s & Girls
For questions and/or more information please email Brian by clicking here.
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Hello my sister in law attends your church and told me about the families in need after the fire. I have a lot of baby boy clothes they are very gently used and only for one child I would love to have someone who needs them I was also wondering if they needed a bouncy chair, baby toys and blankets I would like to drop the things off on tuesday and was wondering what time is best thank you , Shannon
what a great way to help out our community please let us know if the families have any more special needs. lots of prayers tonight
Shannon,
I do believe the other items you talked about would be helpful as well. I live in these townhouses and was lucky enough that the fire stopped before hitting my house. I believe 3 of the families have recently had babies and I was told one women is due in a few weeks. I have a 7 month old boy and will be donating his old clothes as well.
@shannon waite – Thanks for the offer of help. We unfortunately won’t be in the Cottage Grove office today (Tuesday) but will be all day on Wed.
Thank you!!
Would money be better or gift cards….I don’t want to make people spend money at Target if they already have a lot of gift cards already. Let us know.
We will do what we can to help…