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Acts 20:35: "By this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

The 2012 Illinois Mennonite Relief Sale Board sincerely thanks everyone for supporting last year's Sale. Presently, the Sale Board eagerly seeks the help of everyone for the 54th Annual Illinois Relief Sale on March 16-17, 2012, at Interstate Center, Bloomington, Illinois.

Twenty percent of the Illinois Relief Sale net income is used locally by grassroots volunteers to provide food for the needy in Central Illinois.

Eighty percent of the net proceeds from the Sale are channeled through Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), an international relief and service agency located in Akron, Pennsylvania. MCC first began in 1920 in Russian and Ukrainian villages needing assistance. Today MCC, celebrating 92 years (1920-2012) of serving "in the Name of Christ."

During the past year (1) there were 1,126 MCC personnel in forty-nine countries; (2) from April 2009 to 2010, twenty-four countries received material resources such as health kits, relief kits, school kits, and others that totaled over $222,000.00 and also non-food resources such as bath soap, blankets, clothing, laundry soap, fabric, sheets, and towels that totaled over $4,000,000.00 and (3) from April 2009 to April 2010, sixty-two countries received financial support with over $5,300,000.00 coming from forty Relief Sales in America and Canada. MCC also received a large amount from cash gifts, thrift shops, grants, and other sources that was used in helping the needy.