Kits Day at the Harrisburg Depo. Photo: Rose Sharp/CWS

If you have an opportunity to promote CWS Kits in your congregation, please do so! Inventory of CWS School Kits and Baby Kits at the Brethren Service Center is extremely low and CWS is unable to fill pending international and domestic requests because of this lack of adequate inventory. Please help us fill requests by providing these much needed Kits. Looking for a good Mission Project for your summer VBS program, the CWS School Kit makes a tangible connection with the children and their global “classmates” in need of these basic items for education.

Listed below are the 2008 Depot dates and locations. Please see the CWS website for Kit contents or call the Pennsylvania Regional Office. Kits may only be dropped at the below listed churches within the dates provided. Please be sure to drop off only CWS approved kits at these depots.

2008 Eastern PA Depots
(The truck will pick up kits Thursday June 5; items must be at the church by June 4)

Colonial Park UCC
5000 Devonshire Rd., Harrisburg
ch: 717-545-3782
Contact: Kathy Neely
Will accept items: April 1 to June 4, Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 3:30

First Presbyterian Church
Mill Creek Rd. & Montgomery Ave., Ardmore
ch: 610-642-6650
Contact: Anne Foote
Will accept items: May 5 to June 4, Monday - Friday, 9:30 -3:30

2008 Western PA Depots
(The truck will pick up kits Tuesday, October 7; items must be at church by October 6.)

St. Paul's Lutheran Church
215 N. Main St., Zelienople
ch: 724-452-8832
Contact: Ruth Voegtly, 724-452-7649
Will accept items: Mondays of September 22, September 29 & October 6 between 9:00-12:00 and 4:00-6:00 and Oct. 4 (Sat.) 9:00-12:00

Zion Lutheran Church
Church & Sixth Sts., Indiana
ch: 724-465-5597
Contact: Peggy Mosco
Will accept items: Starting September 22 through October 6, M-W-F between 9:00-12 and 1:00-3:00

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"After an active early winter (Southern tornadoes, Midwest floods), we have only 48 CWS Emergency Clean-up Buckets on hand at our New Windsor warehouse. What makes this even more dire is timing: After record snowfalls across the upper Midwest and northeast, March thawing will likely cause flooding soon," reports Bonnie Vollmering, Associate Director for Domestic Response of the CWS Emergency Response Program. "We ask you to spread the word of this need throughout your denominational and other contacts."

We need all of the completed Kits we can gather. Please see the CWS website for Kit contents or call the Pennsylvania Regional Office.

Updated 3/13/08

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Volunteers are needed to help sort through CWS Kits at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Maryland. Volunteers for a day or longer will help process kits for distribution. Call 410-635-8700, the Brethren Service Center Hospitality Office, if you would like to schedule a time to help!

Updated 6/1/07

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Roy Winter of the Church of the Brethren reported:
“When Hurricane Katrina hit, the auction committee decided to have an auction to help assemble CWS Health Kits. Then as Rita approached they decided to make even more,” he wrote. “So, they purchased supplies for 25,000 kits. With over 200 volunteer involved, the kits were assembled boxed and put on trucks ready to head to New Windsor in about two-and-a-half hours. It was really amazing to see.”

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• Visit the CWS Kits page for instructions on assembling and shipping your kits.
  
  
• Order materials online or phone our national service center, 1-800-297-1516

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