Niagara Frontier District News
School Supply Pantry needs your help!
July 30, 2019 / By Beth Holdridge / .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Forget the fact that the temperature is close to 90, that we can almost bathe in the humidity – think of fall and school supplies! Look at the ads in the paper – look at the stores touting fall and winter clothing. No question that it’s time to think of Back to School! Niagara Frontier City Ministries is again asking for your help, while the sales are going strong, to replenish our School Supply Pantry for use during the long school year. Last year our Pantry helped supply paper, pencils, backpacks and much more to Seneca Street UMC and the Seneca Street after school programs, St. James UMC, Central Park UMC and the many refugee families who have found a home at Central Park, among others. This year we want to target supplies for Community Church Jehovah Jireh IMU (formerly Primera Iglesia), which has had an influx of members fleeing the devastating hurricanes and floods from Puerto Rico and Central Park’s Clara’s Closet Refugee Services, Inc. With over 100 new refugee families arriving in Buffalo from the Congo, it is a sure bet that many will end up “visiting” Clara’s for clothing, household goods and school supplies. Please collect as many of the school supplies at the current deeply discounted prices as you can. You can contact Beth Buckley of NFCM (716-913-5010 or efb816@aol.com) to arrange for pick up. Bless our churches for their loving and giving spirits!