Junior Karen Valde checks care packages before delivery.

After the devastation in North Minneapolis on Sunday, a member of the BSM community contacted BSM for help. This BSM community member teaches at Plymouth Learning Center, an alternative high school in North Minneapolis. Many of the teenagers who attend this school were greatly affected by the tornado.

BSM has responded to this need and is showing our care and concern for our brothers and sisters.

Groups of 2-3 BSM students, faculty and staff members signed up to “adopt” each of the 184 Plymouth Learning Center high school students and create an emergency care package for them. The care packages will include basic items such as toothpaste, soap, T-shirts, towels and more. Care packages are due back at school by Wednesday, June 1. Campus minister Mike Jeremiah will be saying a blessing over the care packages before graduating seniors deliver them.

As service coordinator Lisa Lenhart-Murphy says, “BSM has always been a community that reaches out to those in need. These are our neighbors. If they’re affected, we’re affected.”

**Update**

Lisa reports the following on the delivery:

PLC students were so excited about the care packages, espcially the new socks and the laundry detergent. One boy was most thrilled to see the candy! A female student was stunned when she saw the Target bags and the new clothes on top. She commented multiple times that she couldn’t believe some people had gone to Target and bought NEW things. Both the new and gently-used itmes were well received. My heart broke a little to see how much a new pack of socks and laundry detergent could mean to a 16 year old.