Missions and Service Team Newsletter The 2010 Missions & Service team has kicked off the year with a great start. We had our orientation meeting on January 31, 2010. Eleven of twelve members were able to attend the meeting. Ideas for the upcoming year were discussed and two projects have already been put into place. UMCOR/Sager Brown Depot Health Kit Project One of the projects we have just completed is the UMCOR/Sager Brown Depot Health Kit project in conjunction with students at Cherokee Elementary School. On Sunday, February 14th several church members gathered at the church fellowship hall to assemble the health kits and get them ready to be shipped to Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, LA. We are pleased to announce that we shipped out 60 health kits to Sager Brown on February 15, 2010. A big thanks from the mission team goes out to all members of Lee Street UMC and students at Cherokee who contributed to this project. We feel it was a big success.

Coat Project
	Another project underway is a winter coat project for needy students in our Sumter County schools. Mrs. Ann Bass is coordinating the collection of coats/jackets over the next few weeks. We know there is probably two more months of cold weather, so if you are interested in donating a coat for a child, please contact Mrs. Bass at 942-0740 for details.

"One Great Hour of Sharing" Sunday

March 14th has been designated as “One Great Hour of Sharing” Sunday. Please consider a special gift on this Sunday. This offering supports UMCOR’s vital work as our gifts to this offering underwrite UMCOR’s “cost of doing business”. That helps UMCOR keep their promise that 100% of every other gift we make to a specific UMCOR project can be spent on that project-not on home office costs. Our gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing lay the foundation for UMCOR to seek justice and mercy for suffering people everywhere. “And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 (NIV)