Sending 54 boxes full of donated Christian material to those in need.

On Thursday September 17, a group of men from Laurentian Wesleyan Church shipped out 54 Banana Boxes full of donated Christian material, such as Bibles, hymnals and Sunday School material, to the Christian Salvage Mission (CSM). Since 2007 Laurentian Wesleyan Church has shipped out over two hundred boxes of donated Christian resources to the CSM which equals to over 11,000lbs of material or one third of a shipping container.

The CSM which is based in Hamilton, Ontario is a nondenominational Christian organization that is dedicated to providing free of charge resources to churches, ministers and missionaries in third world nations. Retired Pastor Lauren and Dorothy Redinger who founded CSM back in the spring of 1994 realized that there were many Christian books and resources in Canadian churches and homes that were no longer in use but were very much in need in other parts of the world and so the CSM was created to bring those resources together and to send them out to those in need.

Laurentian Wesleyan Church partnered with the CSM back in late 2006 with Ed Vitunski a member of Laurentian Wesleyan Church being the Area Coordinator for CSM. The resources that Laurentian Wesleyan Church is able to send out are collected from churches in North Bay and the surrounding area as far north as Cochrane and also through individual donations. The materials are shipped to the CSM by Erb Transport who support the work of CSM. Pastor Chris Lang minister of Laurentian Wesleyan Church says, “It is thanks to the generosity and the hard work of so many people that we’ve been able to make a positive difference and to help people get the resources that they very much want and need.”

If you have any Christian resources that you would like to donate to the Christian Salvage Mission please contact Ed Vitunski, CSM Area Coordinator at Laurentian Wesleyan Church at 494-9710.