The Peru Gazette

Peter Lake and Jackie Douglass

By John T. Ryan

(Updated 11/8/12) Peter Lake and Jackie Douglass were two of the Peru Community Church volunteers who have collected and packed non-perishable food to ship to Hurricane Sandy-ravaged Brick, New Jersey. Thanks to contributions of food and over $1,900 in cash from many generous people and the hard work of several volunteers, 43 large boxes of goods are being delivered to Brick, a community where many homes were destroyed and many people are suffering.

It didn’t take long for the Church’s Mission Committee to arrange the shipments. They asked for contributions on November 4th. On November 6th twenty-two boxes left Peru and twenty-one boxes left today, November 7^th. St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Brick, N.J will arrange for distribution of the goods.