Children from SBA churches to collect funds Saturday to help build a tiny house for Sumter United Ministries

Children from seven churches within the Santee Baptist Association will be collecting donations at five different locations in Sumter for Children's Missions Day on Saturday to raise money to build a tiny house for Sumter United Ministries.

SUM announced last October that it plans to include five tiny houses in its shelter ministry.

Children will be collecting donations at Walmart on Broad Street, Bultman Drive and Pinewood Road, and at Bi-Lo on Wedgefield Road and Simpson Hardware on Wesmark Boulevard.

"We're praying God will bless us and give us a whole house," SBA Women's Missionary Union board member and Providence Baptist Church Girls in Action director Cynthia Hardee said. "It's a great missions project to do as a mission and as a community."

Children in first through sixth grade will be participating in the event.

Baptist churches involved in the event include Providence, Lakewood, Graham, Grace, Wise Drive, Hickory Road and Crosspoint.

SBA hopes to raise $30,000 for the tiny house on this first association-wide Children's Missions Day.

Anyone who would like to make a donation but can't make it on Saturday to one of the designated locations can do so by mailing or dropping off a check to SBA, 234 Broad St., Sumter, 29150.