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Orphan Grain Train Announces Response Assistance Shipment

Volunteers for the Orphan Grain Train’s (OGT) New England Branch, located at 33 South Main St. in Terryville, Ct. loaded a 53-foot container of needed items on Sept. 21 to help with poverty and storm damage recovery in a multi-state area including North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, West Virginia and Virginia. OGT has the use of a warehouse in Terryville that is owned by Mr. Bill Allread, who has made space available for this charitable work.

The shipment was sent to the Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), one of our mission partners, which aids those less fortunate over this multi-state area and is headquartered in Kentucky. They will forward the items sent to the affected state organizations for distribution. This shipment included an estimated 30,000 pounds of supplies including Blankets, Bedding, Linens, Clothing, Shoes, Coats, 40Walkers, 34 crutches, Hygiene Diapers, seven sewing machines and supplies, three chain saws, Household and medical items, about 100 layette kits for newborns, three bed sets and a cot. Also, on the load were supplies to help with recovery from flood damage which the people there have repeatedly experienced. These items included about 90 – five-gallon buckets, 20 plastic totes, about 4,000 pounds of cleaners mostly supplied by the Phoenix Products Company of Terryville and numerous hygiene kits, towels and supplies to help with cleanup efforts. The shipment is scheduled to arrive on Sept. 22 for offloading at the CAP warehouse for distribution.

Other shipments have gone to missions in a number of countries e.g. Liberia, Nicaragua, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Nepal, the Philippines, Trinidad, Panama, Ghana and the Republic of Georgia, as well as previous hurricane relief for Puerto Rico, Florida and North Carolina. The Branch also helps those locally in New England, giving medical items that have been donated to individuals in need and thru the visiting nurse and hospice care organizations of the area. The effort is an Outreach Ministry of the Lutheran Church, and OGT is a 501(3)(C) charity affiliated with the church and supported locally by Holy Trinity Lutheran in Terryville and Immanuel Lutheran in Bristol and is open to all who want to help others. For more information, please call Holy Trinity at 860-582-0723 and/or check out the OGT.org website.