The United Methodist Church is collecting five gallon buckets filled cleaning supplies to send to victims of Super Storm Sandy.

The “Cleaning Bucket Drive” is an ongoing mission of the church that also helped during the 2009 floods in north Georgia.  So far 10,000 buckets have been sent from across the country this week and efforts to stock up on more are underway.

Mike Yoder, who is in charge of the effort for the North Georgia Conference Disaster Relief Committee, says pastors will be getting the word out to their congregations this Sunday.

“The first load is going Monday  afternoon at one o’clock, we had that trailer in our warehouse already filled up,” he tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish.

Yoder hopes to collect at least 1,000 more buckets to restock what’s being sent.  His disaster relief trailer sits behind Conyers First United Methodist Church.

“We’re shipping them everything they’re asking for, this is to replenish that because there may be another storm someday,” he says.

Besides cleaning supplies, Yoder says they are also looking for back packs filled with school supplies as well as health care kits.

For a complete list of supplies needed you can go to  umcor.org.