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Summer Grove Baptist Church Establishes Disaster Response Relay Center
Summer Grove Baptist Church Establishes Disaster Response Relay Center
Posted by: Brian D. Prucey on Thu, Sep 1, 2005
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Summer Grove Baptist Church
8924 Jewella Ave
Shreveport, LA 71118
Phone 318.686.1470
Fax: 318.688.7922 |
News Release
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Contact: Sheila Phipps or Cyndi Thornton
Phone: (318) 686-1470 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: September 1, 2005 |
---- Shreveport Church Uses Mall to Help Katrina Survivors ----
Shreveport, la, September 1, 2005: When Summer Grove Baptist members voted to purchase South Park Mall to relocate their church, they had no idea of the impact it would make on northwest Louisiana, much less the whole state. Summer Grove is helping the local shelters with one of their biggest needs…storage.
Using the huge amount of inventory space in the mall, Summer Grove has created almost overnight, a huge Disaster Relief Relay Center (DRRC).
- Citizens and churches who desire to donate food, clothing, toiletry, cots, blankets, pillows, etc. should bring items to Entrance #1 of the former South Park Mall at the corner of 3132 Interloop and Jewella.
- The DRRC will be open Monday through Saturday from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- Credited Disaster Relief Shelters that are in need of help in organizing supplies, please send donation to the DRRC.
- Credited Disaster Relief Shelters that are experiencing shortages in these items are encouraged to call the Summer Grove DRRC at 318-686-1470 to obtain supplies.
- DRRC will be receiving supplies from states such as Wisconsin and Oklahoma
- Many of the survivors escaped with what they could carry and little else. There is a tremendous need for clothing, bedding, and other basic items. Many people have clothing that is clean and totally suitable for use, but the Red Cross cannot accept material items (called “in-kind” donations) because the financial and personnel cost of receiving, sorting, transporting these types of gifts is simply too high. Therefore Summer Grove created the DRRC to meet a unique need.
- “Everybody can do something to help.” Said Senior Pastor, Dr. Rod Masteller. “There are many people in our community who may not have a lot of money to donate to the Red Cross but they do have clean clothes, bedding, etc. that they can give immediately. We had to give people a practical, immediate way to help our brothers and sisters who have had their lives so horribly disrupted by this disaster. If we can meet the needs of the shelters, then the shelters can more efficiently meet the needs of the people.”
- Area churches are encouraged to contact the DRRC and cooperate in this relief effort.
- The DRRC is being manned by volunteers from Summer Grove Baptist Church.
- Financial donations to the Summer Grove DRRC are also being accepted for the purpose of assisting credited Relief Shelters.
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