Inman Park United Methodist Makes Final Push For Community To "Stuff The Bus"

For the last several weeks, the children of Inman Park United Methodist Church have been collecting school supplies as part of a project to help refugee children who have resettled to Georgia.

The effort was sparked by an idea to help kids in need, said Theresa Wolf, director of children and youth ministries at the 145-year-old church.

"The kids decided whenever they do things, they want to do it for other people'" Wolf said. "Everything we try to do has something to do with sacrificing. We were talking about what is something that kids really need."

And so "Stuff The Bus" was born.

The kids painted shoeboxes to look like school buses and placed them at area businesses to collect the items that will be given to the Refugee Resettlement & Immigration Services of Atlanta. The goal is to collect enough for 150 children.

On Sunday, all tha's been collected so far will be sorted, separated and counted before being delivered to RRISA.

As part of one final push, a schoolbus will be in front of the church today where givers can quite literally stuff the bus between noon and 2 p.m.

"We'll take anything," Wolf said, but they especially need book bags, crayons and markers.

The bus will be at 1015 Edgewood Ave. today. E-mail childrenipumc@gmail.com for more information.