Blood Drive
CLA Blood Donors are the Best!
Our Annual Blood Drive will take place on March 21, 2010 from 8:00 AM till 1:00 PM (extended hours for your convenience) in the Youth Center Atrium. Anyone in good health, at least 17 years old and at least 110 pounds may donate blood every 56 days or two months. The staff from Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank will provide you with excellent care during your 45 minute stay with us to donate your blood. There will be sign up sheets at the “Health Ministry” kiosk in the main lobby starting February 21to facilitate this process. Walk-ins are welcome but need to anticipate a brief wait. There also will be alot of information available to you to answer any questions you may have. Contact Liz Fite, RN, Health Ministry Director at 635-7234 or lfite@christian-life.com also check out www.cpbb.org web site.
One of the many benefits of being a member of Christian Life Assembly, is that you are automatically enrolled in our Group Blood Assurance Plan. This means that you become part of a continuing system that assures that blood will be available for you and your immediate and extended family (including parents, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews and in-laws), if needed. When an enrolled group meets an annual donation goal of eighteen percent of their family units, they are ensured that credits will be available for transfer to any participating hospital in the United States.
Did you know…?
- Forty-four percent of the population are eligible to donate but only about seven percent do
- One pint of blood can save up to as many as four lives
- The shelf life of a unit of blood is only 35 days
- The average male has between ten and twelve pints; whereas a female has between eight and ten pints of blood You are able to donate blood every eight weeks
- There is no substitute for human blood. Donors are the only source.
- Every three seconds someone somewhere needs blood. Chances are you won't know this person, but tomorrow, it could be your friend, your neighbor, or even a family member.
- IF YOU NEEDED BLOOD TODAY WOULD IT BE THERE?
