Many Sacred Heart parishioners took time after Mass on Wednesday, June 1, to help assemble Disaster Relief Kits. Our parish purchased the supplies with funds that came from the Social Justice and Charitable Outreach Commission budget.  The Commission voted at their May meeting to answer the call from the Arkansas Rice Depot to help provide personal care kits, food kits and cleaning bucket kits for the victims that were devastated from the tornadoes and floods during the April storms.

Bernie Kernen, John Bodensteiner and Dick Hill did the comparative shopping and purchasing of the items to make up the disaster relief kits. Thank you to all that helped in the assembly of the disaster relief kits.

The Arkansas Rice Depot is still in desperate need of emergency food kits, flood bucket kits and personal care kits to distribute to the needy. Gathering the supplies and assembling the kits is an ideal project for Vacation Bible School, summer programs and men's and women's groups.  The kits can be dropped off at Arkansas Rice Depot at 3801 W. 65th St. in Little Rock or call Lauren at (501) 565-8855 and ARD can send a truck to pick them up.