UMCOR Sager Brown Depot

Summary

A facility in Louisiana for collecting, processing, storing and shipping material goods for response to emergencies.

Description

To provide facilities for processing material goods which will be made available for worldwide emergency response. Support of this program will also target the use of volunteers to resource this global effort through UMCOR.

In 1992, UMCOR began a program of "In Kind" resourcing to provide critically needed items to areas of the world that had been impacted by disaster. This program received churchwide recognition with the "Russia Food Box" program. This particular program produced nearly 2,000 metric tons of food boxes donated from across the church. Following this program was the "Armenia Coat Project" in 1993 that supplied over 125,000 winter coats to the refugees and displaced persons in the Armenian conflict.

During this time, UMCOR has in progress the "Contain Your Joy" program, which works with Annual Conferences to prepare and ship containers of resources to the developing world. This program produces several million dollars (in value) of needed items to locations globally each year.

UMCOR has developed this program and now has constructed a 47,000 square foot processing/warehousing facility on the historic property at the Sager-Brown Center in Baldwin, Louisiana. This Advance project will provide the program support, which will target the use of volunteers to resource this global effort through UMCOR.