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LINK Seeks Used Winter Coats for Distribution to the Needy
LINK Seeks Used Winter Coats for Distribution to the Needy
Record Number 600 Families Apply for Assistance
Established in 1972, LINK is one of the legacy “all volunteer” emergency support organizations in Northern Virginia. LINK provides emergency food assistance by request on a daily basis and distributes holiday food baskets for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The organization is comprised of 14 member churches (consisting of Baptist, Brethren, and Catholic, Episcopal, Fellowship, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian churches) in the Herndon and eastern Loudoun communities united in a common cause to provide food, grocery gift certificates and financial assistance to qualified people in need 52 weeks a year. LINK retains no paid employees. Volunteers do all the work and most goods are received from local donations.
Sterling United Methodist Used Coat Distribution
This year a record number of 600 families have registered for the LINK Thanksgiving Food and Used Coat distribution event on Saturday November 22. The 600 families comprise 1,263 adults and 1,608 children totaling 2,871 needy people. Jim Krips (Used Winter Coat Coordinator) put out a special plea for used winter coats. We ran out of coats last year (510) and had to request additional coats from the Good Shepherd Alliance Thrift Store in Sterling. The coats don't need to be new, just in good condition and clean.
SUMC Coat Distribution in Full Swing
Coats can be brought to Sterling United Methodist at located at 304 East Church Road from November 16 to 22, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. There will be a collection box in the Narthex. Other winter garments are also welcome; hats, mittens, scarves and sweatshirts are desperately needed to have in supply to support the record number of registered families this year.
If anyone is interested in donating coats, please contact the LINK representative via email at HolidayFoodBasket@LINKAgainstHunger.org.
The LINK web site is www.linkagainsthunger.org
God's grace is great!
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