Children’s Home this spring.
(Chelsea Update would like to thank Kathy Carter for the information in this story.)
This month, youth at Chelsea First United Methodist Church (CFUMC) are “Kids Helping Kids” through two projects that the
middle school groups have organized.
The kids want to share their efforts to help foster children through the Methodist Children’s Home Society and sick
children through C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital with the community.
They’d also like to get others involved in collecting items such as a housewarming kit, art supplies, and fleece blankets.
“God and Church 6th graders” are helping foster children at the Methodist Children’s Home Society (MCHS) who are becoming adults and moving out on their own. These foster youth leave the care facility with nothing to get started in their own apartment or room, so the 6th graders are collecting items for a housewarming kit.
Items they’ve chosen for the kits are cutlery, bed and bath linens, and similar necessary items to start out on your own.
They’ve created a cardboard house to display the items needed and are asking community and church family to help provide
the items.
This is the group’s final project for the God and Church award, an interdenominational national award program for middle
school youth, which 6th graders have been working on Sunday mornings since September.
They have also led church participation in the CROP Walk, helped create items for the Children’s Christmas Bazaar, and
learned about the United Methodist Church.
Helping one of the church-wide ministries was chosen as their final project.
OUTLET Youth, an after school-program for middle school children, which meets weekly at Chelsea First for fun, fellowship, and learning. They are helping children at Mott Hospital through two projects: collecting art supplies and making fleece blankets.
To pay for the blanket supplies, they have organized a pop can collection with a drop box at the church.
Previously, the group has done projects for Faith in Action and Cass Community.
The program needs new and unused to avoid the spread of germs):
- Drawing pads
- Sketch pads
- Colored pencils
- Colored Markers, Sharpies
- Duct Tape designs
- New books for ages 9-14
- Silly putty, modeling clay
- Travel size games and cards
- Beads and string
- Girls’ hair items such as clips
- Stickers
- Journals
Details about each project and what to donate can be obtained by contacting Kate Horazdovsky, youth minister, at 475-8119.
Pop cans and other items can be dropped off at the church.
Donations are needed by May 19.
