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It is with much emotion that I share the announcement of the closure of the Sager Brown Depot. FUMC has sponsored 18 teams to work at this facility. We sent our first team in 2006 and have since sent over 170 missioners to work at the UMCOR Depot.
The United Methodist Committee on Relief has announced it will conclude operations at the Sager Brown Depot as it reimagines how disaster relief supplies are assembled, stored, and deployed.
For nearly three decades, Sager Brown in Baldwin, Louisiana, has played a global role in disaster response. Millions of relief supply kits have been assembled, verified, prayed over, and shipped to communities facing crisis across the United States and around the world.
UMCOR announced it will no longer operate the Sager Brown Depot, starting January 2027. Plans are to modernize the way the relief agency manages materials while reducing costs to strengthen its disaster response ministry. UMCOR will seek an experienced logistics partner and expand collaboration with affiliate warehouses across the country, the release said.
The relief agency will continue its work preparing and shipping relief supply kits at the Baldwin campus through the end of the year, in partnership with United Women in Faith and the Louisiana Conference. The depot will host all scheduled mission experiences.
I wish to thank all of the people who have supported the Sager Brown Depot through volunteer service, assembling disaster relief kits, financially, and with their prayers.
Yours In Mission – Maxine Schultz
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