The Jones County Baptist Association will be sending more than 240 “Buckets of Hope” today for the people of Haiti.
Allan Nix, the association’s missions director, said Monday that the North American Mission Board began the “Buckets of Hope” program earlier this month to deliver food to the people of the earthquake-ravaged country.
“We’re just one link in a big chain,” he said. “The Florida Baptist Association actually has a long-standing partnership with Haiti and provided some initial response.”
Robert Wade, project coordinator, said approximately 242 5-gallon buckets were filled with enough food to feed a family of four for a week.
“They include two 5-pound bags of long grain enriched rice, a 48-ounce plastic bottle of cooking oil, two 2-pound bags of dry black beans, one 5-pound bag of all purpose flour, one 20-ounce cylinder container of granulated white sugar, two 1-pound boxes of spaghetti noodles, one 40-ounce plastic jar of smooth peanut butter and one 2-gallon plastic ziplock storage bag (used to wrap the bottle of cooking oil),” he said.
Food to fill the bucket cost approximately $30 with another $10 to help with shipping costs.
“We’re shooting for 300 buckets,” said Wade, noting that more churches may be bringing buckets by Tuesday morning.
Nix said a number of Jones County’s 53 Baptist churches, individuals and two fourth grade classes at South Jones Elementary School participated in the effort. More than 10 churches across the state are serving as dropoff sites, including ones in Hattiesburg and Kosciusko.
“I was real encouraged by the response, especially because it happened during a relatively short time,” he said. “We were just brought into this project about four weeks ago.”
For more information on the “Buckets of Hope” project, visit www.namb.net/bucketsofhope.
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