Benefit Garage Sale Helps Tornado Victims and More

Yea, I know...we don’t really have Pews. But at Saint Matthew's we always have news and this BLOG is the place that you will find it. So here goes, the first post on our new site.
This weekend with the leadership of Tracy Arnold and Francis Whitworth, Saint Matthew’s held a benefit garage sale. The Parish Hall and Courtyard were filled to overflowing with items some considered trash and others considered treasures. The sale was held on Saturday after a week of sorting, piling, rearranging and pricing. At 8:00 am Saturday morning customers began filing in and filling bags and boxes with their color coded treasures. Tracy and Tracy, (Arnold and Oswell) manned the cash drawer while the rest of us did our best to help customers with prices, sizes, and any other questions they might have. Caleb and Caitlyn Oswell, Sarah and Dallas Goldammer and Morgan Arnold ran errands and promoted the sale with signs at the gate while Val Soper handled the refreshment coolers.
As an added way of "spreading the wealth", the ladies of the Abriendo Puertos program were invited to set up craft stalls along side our sale. Three ladies did so, offering hand made bags, hair ornaments and other things.
At the end of the day the sale had netted almost a Thousand Dollars, all of which will go to help the victims of the tornados in Alabama. Those items that did not sell were bundled up and delivered by Tracy O and Mark Goldammer to the Family Crisis Center in Harlingen.
Thanks to those two wonderful women, Francis and Tracy, for doing something that helped Three different groups of God’s less fortunate.

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