Service for Ike victims

Our Church is involved in thousands of humanitarian projects in hundreds of countries around the world, most of which are not Church-related. These include aid for disaster areas such as the Southeast Asian tsunami, cyclones in Myanmar, Hurricane Katrina, and the recent Hurricane Ike. Some ways we can help is by donating money or time in the efforts of clean up and first aid. We can also put together "hygeine kits" to be sent for relief of victims with no homes or very little resources.

So last night we and several other families spent our Family Home Evening time assembling these hygeine kits to be sent mainly to recent Ike victims in Houston. Every family brought a bunch of one item to add to the kits (towels, toothpaste and toothbrushes, soap, combs), and then we put them together in ziploc bags to be sent to the Church storehouse in Naperville, IL, and then to the disaster area.

We had a great time. The children learned about service to those in need, and we all had a good time visiting and eating lots of goodies. Thanks to the King family, the Price family, the Christiansen family, the Upton-Rowley family, the Reade family, and the Schilt family! And especially thanks to April for putting this all together!

Our master assembly line for the hygeine kits- children hard at work!

Still going... the children proved much more efficient at this process than I did.


Elin obviously enjoyed the service project, and especially the pumpkin cheesecake.