Grace raised over $14,000 for Bidwell Riverside the July. The August 29 loose change offering will be donated to Meals for the Homeless at Central Iowa Shelter (Formerly Churches United Shelter.)
DMARC Diaper Drive
Many of the young families receiving food assistance through the DMARC Emergency food
Pantry cannot cover their basic needs for diapers, baby wipes and infant formula. Because in-
adequate access to diapers is often a symptom of a larger issue of poverty or crisis, DMARC is
responding to this extraordinary and urgent community need by serving as a centralized ware-
house and emergency distribution network for baby diapers and hygiene items. For information
about how you can help, go to their web site: http://www.dmreligious.org/

This is the NEW Most Needed Items List:

100% Juice (tomato, orange or vegetable in a can or plastic bottle)
Fruit (canned in water or 100% juice, not in heavy syrup)
Canned vegetables (with no-salt added, i.e. tomatoes, green beans, mixed vegetables, sweet potatoes preferred)
Canned beans (refried beans, vegetarian refried beans and beans in water for example kidney beans, red beans, black beans,
garbanzo beans)
Dry beans Canned spaghetti sauce
Peanut butter Hot cereal, oatmeal (plain, no sugar added, instant or regular)
Canned meat (tuna or chicken in water) Cold cereal (whole grain Cheerios, Wheat Chex, Wheaties, granola or
Shredded Wheat prefer
Infant/baby formula Shelf-stable UHT milk (in aseptic packaging, low fat preferred, no canned)
Whole-grain dry pasta or egg noodles Diapers and baby wipes
Brown rice (regular or instant) Personal products (shampoo, soap, feminine hygiene, toothpaste, deodorant)
Vegetable soup (low sodium) Fresh whole grain bread items (with generous expiration dates)
Whole grain crackers (wheat saltines)
**NO OUT OF DATE ITEMS, PLEASE**
Your gifts in July 95 items and $365 are greatly appreciated! Thank you!


INGATHERING 2010, by
Heather Adams

We are beginning to prepare for what we hope will be another successful missions project ...the 31st
Annual Thanksgiving Ingathering on November 6th...and we need your help. Grace provides health kits and school kits for Ingathering: the health kits help disaster victims reclaim their dignity and self respect and the school kits provide tools for education for children in countries where such resources are sorely lacking. The kits are sent to areas of the world most in need. Last year Grace contributed 168 school kits and 84 health kits -- we would like to reach a goal of 175 school kits and 90 health kits this year.

You will soon be seeing ads for specials on back to school supplies and health items. As you are buying supplies for your children or grandchildren's return to school, we ask you to think about children who are affected by disaster or poverty and to consider purchasing some extra items to help Grace fill our kits. Please put any items purchased for the kits in the containers marked "Thanksgiving Ingathering" located in the narthex of the church or in the coat room beginning the first Sunday in August. All items must be new and unwashed.

HEALTH KITS
Hand towels ( 15" x 25" up to 17" x 27")
Bars of soap (bath sized, in wrapper, 3 oz or larger)
Toothbrushes (individual in original sealed wrapper, no child-sized)
Washcloths
Combs (large and sturdy, not pocket sized)
Nail files or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
Band aids

SCHOOL KITS
Notebooks (8 1/2 x 11 wide ruled, app. 210 to 250 sheets total, spiral or bound)
Rulers (30 cm metric)
Crayons (box of 24)
Erasers (2 1/2")
Scissors (blunt)
Hand held pencil sharpeners
Unsharpened pencils

Also, if you are able to sew any of the cloth bags for the school kits, please con-
tact Carolyn Nelson. Thank you for your help with this important mission