We Are Helping So that Homeless Students can be successful.

It is hard to be successful in school when you are hungry. Fortunately, K-M HUB is there to help students with snacks, meals, and more. KUMC Outreach and Youth Group have partnered to help HUB, but we can’t do it without you.

HUB is a free resource center located in the K-M main office. HUB provides free access to food, personal hygiene products, and school supplies. KUMC has been assisting HUB for four years now. Staff are so grateful each time they see our donations. Thank you, KUMC, for helping to remove roadblocks to student learning. For more information, go to the HUB website at www.kmhub.org.

Support KM HUB

It is time for our monthly delivery of items to HUB, so I called the school to ask what they need. When I called, our contact said, “I was just talking about your church!” She went on to say that she was telling a couple of others at the school that they were in great need of supplies and wondered aloud if she could call us. I let her know that we at KUMC call that a “God- thing” because we were calling to find out what they needed in our next delivery. And I reminded her that, of course, they could call us any time. Your donations are making a difference in the lives of youth in our community!

The HUB at Kent-Meridian High School serves all of its students who may be hungry, cold, or in need of personal care items. We at KUMC have provided meal kits to them for several years. This Fall, they asked us to change up how we support them to best meet student needs. While we continue to ensure they have enough meal kits to meet demand, we now provide additional items. Through your generous giving, we have allocated monies from the Community Outreach Beyond Our Walls account for them each month. If you also feel inspired to donate any of the items, please feel free to drop those in the HUB donation basket located next to the Foodbank basket in the narthex. We deliver the items at least monthly. The families and staff of the high school are incredibly appreciative of all that we do for them.

Only New Items, Please

  • Snacks such as fruit cups, granola/energy bars, etc.

  • Full-sized shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant

  • Full-sized toothpaste

  • Washcloths

  • Lip Balm

  • Warm hats & gloves (preferred colors are black, gray, dark blue). Homemade or store-bought.

  • Low-cut socks

  • Feminine pads with wings

If you have questions about any of these, just contact Sandra Durbrow.

You can also purchase items from the HUB wish list and have them sent directly to K-M High School by using the HUB Amazon wish list:

How you can help:

  • Donate money to KUMC Outreach Committee, which will be used to purchase items for K-M HUB. Donate online using the KUMC app or our website at Give Now to Kent United Methodist Church (pushpay.com) by selecting Community Outreach Offering in the drop-down list and noting “Kent HUB” in the Notes field. You can also mail a check to KUMC with Kent HUB in the Memo line.

  • Pray for the students and HUB volunteers that their burdens be eased and their spirits be comforted.

In August, Outreach sponsored a donation drive for Kent-Meridian HUB. We received $1335, which will pay for nearly five months of meals. Thank you!

The K-M High School HUB program provides food, school supplies, and other essentials to students and their families in need. We at KUMC have assisted HUB’s mission by providing meal kits.

These gallon zip-lock bags contain dinner for four people. It’s designed to fit in a student’s backpack so they can walk around campus or take the bus home and still maintain privacy about receiving assistance from HUB. We aim to provide 40 meals every month from now through next July. 480 meals feeding 1,920 people over the next 12 months. Wow.

How it works is that Outreach purchases the food. Our KUMC youth group assembles the meal kits. Outreach volunteers deliver them to K-M HUB. Each delivery costs about $300.

If you’d like to help Outreach provide meals for HUB, you can drop a check or envelope marked HUB in the collection basket during service or donate online via the KUMC app or website KentMethodist.com and select Outreach in the drop-down list. All donations to Outreach in August and September will be directed to HUB.