Today several of us stayed after church to fill buckets with cleaning supplies. This is part of supplying materials to Presbyterian Disaster Relief and will be sent to Louisiana to help with the clean up after Hurricane Ida. We've done this several times before, after various disasters, but not since before the pandemic. This was very well organized. All of the materials, many donated (including the big blue buckets with lids from Lowe's) or sold to us a a reduced price, were lined up on long tables. Each of us, one by one, picked up a bucket and walked along the tables filling it with detergent, a clothes line, clothes pins, scrubbing cloths, cleanser with bleach, rubber gloves, heavy work gloves, scrubby sponges, insect repellent and more. It's amazing how much can be fitted into a big bucket. What pleases me the most is how many people stay to help. Thanks to many hands we had those buckets packed in 25 minutes. A similar phenomena happens when we gather weekly during the school year to pack 'blessings in a backpack,' assuring school children weekend food. Like most regular church attenders, I give money weekly in the collection plate (actually on line these days) but I find it very satisfying to actually handle materials and feel like I'm doing something real, and evidently so do many others. Also, it's fun.
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