URGENT NOTICE - October 7

Major Hurricane Relief Underway

     Orphan Grain Train—Michigan (126 E. Main St., Sebewaing) is currently mounting a major hurricane relief effort in response to the widespread catastrophe of Hurricane Helene.

     Our American neighbors are hurting badly and so many of their vital properties, homes, businesses, and livelihoods have been destroyed.

     There is no time to spare
for carrying out relief efforts.

    Orphan Grain Train--Michigan is presently gathering the widest possible assortment of desperately needed material goods.  These include non-perishable foodstuffs, cleaning supplies and associated tools, hygiene provisions, blankets, and articles such as rubber boots, generators, portable lighting, or whatever one might conceive as immediately needed following such an extensive disaster. 

     For this pressing effort we are not shipping clothing, quilts, or furniture.  Please just use common sense in determining what might be most needed.  Non-perishable food is the easiest as are diapers and child care supplies.

     Churches and organization are invited to consider assembling hygiene kits (components of which can be found listed at https://www.ogt.org/), or flood buckets with liquid laundry detergent, dish soap, scrub brushes, cleaning wipes, scouring pads, clothespins and clothesline, trash bags, dust masks, and work gloves.  Any supplies of this nature are needed.

    Orphan Grain Train--Michigan has a five year history of sending humanitarian relief around the world to locations where people are in desperate need.  Orphan Grain Train—Michigan has shipped multiple tons of mercy care to Kyrgyzstan, Panama, Moldova, the Republic of Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Malawi, South Sudan, and Peru.  Previous domestic distributions have also gone to Ohio and Kentucky, and medical equipment is routinely given away locally.

This crisis following Hurricane Helene
calls for an immediate response.

    Orphan Grain Train—Michigan will remain open daily for the next two weeks (Monday--Saturday)  9am--5pm. until October 19 to receive any material or financial support from those wishing to contribute. 
 

     Updates and information will be posted on this branch blog (https://ogt-mi.blogspot.com).

     The Orphan Grain Train—Michigan work and warehouse Center is located at 126 E. Main St., in Sebewaing.  Call for information: 989-600-2264 or email pastordavereed@gmail.com.
A secondary drop-off location for those in the greater Flint region is St. Mark Lutheran Church, 5073 Daly Blvd., Flint.

More Important Than We May Know

 How simple and yet how important a small comfort can be to a child.  An array of small clutch teddy bears were sewn by Nancy Pinnow and given to Orphan Grain Train.

     Only God knows which little one of His lambs may come to love and rest with a small companion like one of these.

To Give Wherever Needed

         Our thanks to the Honor Corp  -- of Saginaw Valley State University who prepared a substantial quantity of hygiene kits which will now likely be included with our Hurricane Henene Disaster response.

       The university students who completed this project didn't know who would need these kits.  Would it be a destitute mother on the other side of the world or an American neighbor.  Whoever it might be, they wanted to help.