Every few months, we roll up our sleeves and sponsor a blood drive with the American Red Cross. The Red Cross has over 135 years of experience providing humanitarian aid – including more than 75 years of supplying blood to those in need.
An estimated 38% of Americans are eligible to give blood or platelets, but of those, less than 10% actually donate each year. If you are healthy and eligible, please come out to donate. Most donations take about an hour, so book your appointment, roll up your sleeve and become a part of the lifesaving mission of the Red Cross and SUMC. If you don’t know if you are eligible, show up to find out. And if you can’t donate blood, we would love to have you as a volunteer at our drive.
Each pint of blood we collect can help save up to three lives and will touch the lives of so many more. What a great way to pay it forward and make an impact on people in our community and across the country. We are very excited about the drive and hope you are too!
Let’s show our community and the patients in need of blood just how much we can do. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Brie in the church office about joining the team, or reach out to her with any questions you may have.
There are many ways you can help, but most importantly we hope you come out to donate. It’s not every day that we do something that has such a lifesaving impact. Let’s blow this out of the water!
Thank you for making the Shepherd community what it is.
Upcoming Drive Details:
Date: TBA
Time:
SUMC Primary Contact: Brie Post | office@shepherdumcmi.org | 989-828-5866
