Clothing Exchange Event at First United

On Saturday, June 5, we did not celebrate the D-Day Landing of 1944 early, but the Clothing Landing at First United Lutheran Church in Dallas! The Clothing Exchange (check this out: http://www.theclothingexchange.com/) is an official Green Event, which encourages folks to pass on outgrown and no longer needed clothes to others AT NO CHARGE! At First United, a local community volunteer (Meredith) organized everything, as she has done this for years. We members of the church served cookies and lemonade and orange slices and good cheer to the overheated "shoppers." Persons come in with bags of unwanted clothing and get the same number of bags to fill from others' discards (which the volunteers have carefully categorized). What wonderful Stewardship, caring for resources responsibly, plus helping out the community. As Meredith pointed out, it is also a kind of "loaves and fishes" event because there are always many bags of left over clothing that go to shelters and other non-profits for their use. Thanks "The Clothing Exchange" for letting us host! Watch for a late-Summer/early-Fall Back-to-School event.