Each month we designate a community partner and give you the opportunity to donate items for them. In January we partnered with the Covenant Presbyterian Food Pantry. In February our Refugee Team leads the initiative, and we partner with the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
We are helping IRC put together “Go-Bags.” The go bags are specifically for survivors of human trafficking. The human trafficking and refugee communities experience cross-over, and IRC is partnering with the Lighthouse Project for this initiative. Our contributions will provide IRC with a supply of bags that they can hand off to someone ‘on the go,’ someone escaping trafficking. A survivor leaving trafficking is unlikely to have anything more than the clothes on their back.
Each bag has items that help get them started in a new life. A donation was made to cover the cost of 50 duffle bags, and now we get to help fill them. There are a few ways to contribute:
- Go here Flocknote and sign up. You sign up for what you want to donate, and you are emailed a link that tells you how/where to purchase the items. The sign up allows us to keep track of donations.
- After you sign up you can go here to order: Amazon
- Call the church office and have Teresa help you with the online sign up process.
- Make a donation to Grace, marked for IRC Yellow Bags.
If you want to learn more about Wichita IRC go here: https://www.rescue.org/united-states/wichita-ks
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