Goodwill Creates Great Feeling

My year is starting out great I have to admit. A year of giving back and providing stewardship to my community is becoming a true reality and not just a wish!

I started out the year with a great volunteer opportunity – Extreme Makeover. While I was there I met some great people. A lot of them spend hours volunteering on different projects around their community. Listening to these people speak about their stewardship left me energized to do more.

I immediately got online to ABC’s website to take a look at other volunteer opportunities. There are a lot of opportunities, you should check them out. While on the site I saw the Goodwill logo and emailed for further information. Goodwill is part of ABC’s “Give a Day/Get a Day” program. You volunteer there for a couple of hours and you get a one day pass to Disney in return.

This past Saturday I volunteered 3 hours at a Goodwill store in Katy. Goodwill earns money from retail sales and donations. They provide back to those in need by finding job opportunities and learning skills for those individuals getting back on their feet. The first half-hour I went through an orientation process of learning about the store. The rest of the time I put out merchandise from the back racks and sorted through clothes for the Goodwill employees to price. The three hours went by real fast, before I knew it the hour had come to leave. It was a different experience and I really enjoyed learning about Goodwill and their program. BTW…if you ever take clothes to these places just little tidbit they will throw away clothes with tears, stains, and severe fading. My bad stack was growing more than my good stack. I don’t really have a vacation planned for Disney, but if I decide to go at least I know that I have one day to get in free. I may just donate it back to another organization, which I can do.

Oh I have to mention while I was working, I found some awesome finds. You need to visit your local Goodwill you never know what treasure you will find. My friend Holli had been looking for a kitchen set for her son Nathaniel for a while, but had been unsuccessful. Wouldn't you know that in the kiddie toy section there were two kitchen sets – one pink and one green. I called Holli to let her know that there were two there, well the pink one was out of the question! Now Nathaniel has a new kitchen set and can you believe it was only $10!

I now need your help:
I found another charity that needs your help and mine! I will be the delivery person to this organization. I just need your help in getting me the items. I NEED YOUR SHOES. I will be collecting these for Soles4Souls. Please help me in providing shoes for the needy here in the USA and other countries. My goal is to collect a 100 shoes from friends and family and send them to this organization. I would appreciate your donation! They do not have to be extremely new, but at least in some sort of decent condition.
Thanks!