Reaching Out to Our Community and the World
Equipment for Caring
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Our church supports Equipment for Caring which is a medical equipment loaner closet with the Shenandoah River District United Methodist Church. It began in 2015 and has grown moving first into our Mission Central building in Harrisonburg in 2018 and then in 2023 into a larger space with 4 side rooms and 2 storage sheds at Mt Tabor UMC in the Lacey Spring area.
During 2024 we have depended on an average of 16 volunteers who donate 70-100+ hours per month and we always welcome new volunteers who can help with cleaning, safety checking and organizing equipment and supplies as well as helping persons who come seeking equipment and supplies. Please get in touch with us if you have questions or needs that we may be able to help or if you would like to be a part of this ministry. We depend on the generosity of our local community for financial support and on persons giving us equipment they no longer need. We have met hundreds of people from the community with their needs for medical equipment or disposable supplies. Monthly we average 40-50+ persons needing medical equipment and another 30-50 persons getting disposable supplies. All equipment is loaned at no charge and disposable supplies such as incontinence products and wound care supplies are given for those needing and requesting. Some of the items that are most popular are wheelchairs, hospital beds, shower chairs and benches, bedside commodes, walkers, quad canes, rollators as well as smaller items. You are welcome to come by during our hours we are open to the public to check us out. I recently read this quote from Joyce Meyer and believe it speaks to the call from Jesus, "We are blessed to be a blessing, we are saved to seek and save others. We are healed to heal, forgiven to forgive. It is not about me, mine, us or ours. It has always been about others." . |
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