7:00 pm – Sunday, March 17
UPDATE for COMMUNITY DONATION SITE:
Starting tomorrow morning at 9 am the Community Donation Site will be at the City Auditorium (925 N Broad St): The donation needs are: Shovels, mops, buckets, garbage bags, cleaning supplies, Towels, Hygiene products, Toilet Paper, Baby items,Non-perishable Food, Bedding, NEW pillows, and paper products and bottled water! No clothing donations needed at this time.
We are still in need of monetary donations. To donate:
- Text the message FREMONTUW to 41444 or
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Go to www.fremontunitedway.org and click on the GIVE button
Non-Shelter Volunteers need to go to Clarmar Elementary School between the hours of 9 am – 7pm.
Shelter Volunteers are still being coordinated at the shelter locations.
8:30 pm – Saturday, March 16
First Lutheran is still looking for volunteers to help in the shelter serve and clean up at meal times and to help collect and sort donations. You can call the church office 402-721-2959 to sign up or sign up on Sunday morning at worship.
ALL DONATIONS have been moved to a community donation site at CLARMAR Elementary School (1865 E 19th St)
All donations are then going to be routed to the highest need from location. Items that still need donations of are: Towels, Hygiene products, Toilet Paper, Baby items,Non-perishable Food, Bedding, NEW pillows, and paper products and bottled water!
We are still in need of monetary donations.
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! What a generous community we live in!
11:00 am – Saturday, March 16
UPDATE for Donations:
Each Emergency Shelter location at First Lutheran Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, Church of Nazarene and Salem Lutheran Church is of need of all these items and is accepting donations at all four locations:
- Air Mattresses (even pool air mattresses)
- blankets
- sleeping bags
- NEW pillows
- towels
- toiletries
- toilet paper
- feminine hygiene products
- sweatpants
- t-shirts NEW underwear and socks
- baby supplies
- wipes
- diapers
- bottle warmers
- formula bottles
- bottled water
- non-perishable foods
We are still in need of monetary donations. There are several options to donate:
- Text the message FREMONTUW to 41444
- Go to www.fremontunitedway.org and click on the GIVE button
- Or do cash or check drop off at the United Way office at 445 E. 1st Street (at the yellow Turner house)
8:00 pm – Friday, March 15
Amazing results gather items and needs for families and individuals that have been displaced due to flood waters. Fremont Area United Way is now seeking funds for recovery funds for recovery efforts of our neighbors that cannot go back to their homes. We have set up the following options to help:
- Text 41444, message FremontUW
- Give on https://www.fremontunitedway.org/
- Volunteers are needed to work 2-hour shifts (10 am-8 pm). Please call 402-721-2959 8 am – 5 pm Saturday.
4:30 pm – Friday, March 15
Our shelter is at capacity. Evacuees are being directed to Trinity Lutheran Church at 16th and Luther Road. At this time we have enough donations.
11:40 am – Friday, March 15
Watch here for more updates
Early Thursday morning we received word that First Lutheran Church would be activated as a Red Cross Shelter. We are working closely with the Dodge County Emergency Management, the Red Cross, and the United Way to help people who are affected by rising waters. Currently, we do have evacuees staying in our Mission Center while others are coming to First Lutheran in order to make necessary connections. Our own Red Cross Shelter Team is working around the clock to provide food, water, a place to sleep, along with other basic necessities.
If you would like to help with local flood relief, the United Way is accepting donations at their office at 445 East 1st Street in Fremont.
- bottled water
- towels
- blankets
- toiletries such as laundry soap, bar soap, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, shampoo, conditioner
- and shovels for clean-up
- packaged food items for relief workers
We kindly ask that these donations be taken directly to the United Way office since First Lutheran is unable to receive any tangible items or food during this time.
If you would like to give a monetary donation –
- Text 41444, message FremontUW and it will go to local flood relief including hotels, housing deposits, clean up, and vouchers.
- Go to www.fremontunitedway.org and click on the orange GIVE button.
Once the floodwaters reside, volunteers will be needed for clean-up. Please contact the United Way at 402-721-4157 for more information.
We invite you, in the meantime, to pray for all of those who are affected by flood waters.