Buckets of Hope Update
A total of 855 buckets from KNCSB churches were shipped. At last count, Southern Baptists sent over 140,000 buckets to ports in Louisiana and Florida for onward shipment to Haiti and distribution by Haitian Southern Baptist Churches to people in need. HOKSBA is on record as having prepared 201 buckets. This was the most of any KNCSB association. Volunteers traveled over 5,500 miles collecting and delivering the buckets to the Garvey Public Storage Warehouse south of Wichita. A total of 68 volunteers (28 KNCSB Disaster Relief/40 others) were involved in the collecting, labeling, processing, and packaging for onward movement of buckets to Haiti.
HOKSBA stands for the Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association. This is the Southern Baptist association serving Sedgwick County Kansas, and the surrounding area.