Froslee donates supplies to Micah’s Mission in Moorhead
News | Published on June 6, 2023 at 12:14pm EDT | Author: henningmaster
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Norah Froslee donated the items that were collected as part of her American Heritage Girls Lenten service project. Effy Stonem of Churches United accepted the items on behalf of the organization.
Norah Froslee, of Vining, delivered a vanload of supplies to Micah’s Mission in Moorhead on Friday, June 3. Micah’s Mission is the central donation drop-off point for most of the items routinely used by Churches United in their mission to provide safe shelter, stable housing, nutritious food, and a path towards healing.
Churches United clients are experiencing homelessness, poverty, displacement, or other personal crisis. Churches United for the Homeless is the largest shelter in northwestern Minnesota and is the only shelter within 225 miles that is able to accommodate single men, single women, and both one and two parent families.
Effy Stonem, the Donations Coordinator for Churches United, said that the number of toiletries donated exceeded her imagination.
During this past Lent, Froslee organized this service project as part of an American Heritage Girls (AHG) leadership level award program. She gathered the mini-toiletries from the Henning and Vining communities. Collection boxes placed around town resulted in a few hundred mini-containers of shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, toothpaste, and other personal care products.
Additionally, a few dozen new slippers were also donated.
Sorting the mini-toiletries donations was primarily done with the help of the troop at an AHG meeting. Additional support for the service project came as others heard about it.
Big Foot Gas and Grocery in Vining donated a large box of items from excess inventory of hygiene products.
The St. Teresa’s Sewing Circle at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Henning donated their annual completed quilt. During St. Edward’s Lenten Fish Fry suppers, raffle tickets were sold and all proceeds went towards purchasing items requested by Churches United. $347 was raised.
The donations coordinator for Churches United was contacted to understand what their most urgent needs were for serving their clients. With that information, the quilt raffle funds were used to buy pillows, body wipes, dry shampoo, deodorant, cotton swabs and hairbrushes.
Froslee is thankful for all of the generous support she received in order to complete this service project.