From Jon DeCarmine and Jayne Moraski:]
BLANKET AND JACKET DRIVE
Please donate new/gently used blankets, coats, hats, gloves and sleeping bags to any of these locations:
VA Health Care for Homeless Vets
620 NW 16th Avenue
Alachua County Housing Authority
703 NE 1st Street
Peaceful Paths Thrift Store
1730 NW 53rd Avenue
DCF ACCESS Program Office
1000 NE 16th Avenue, Bldg. J
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do NOT donate clothing other than the specific items mentioned above - coats, hats, and gloves - because these agencies do not have storage space for other clothing donations.
For more information, to schedule pickup of large donations, or to coordinate a drive at your church or school, please call Jon DeCarmine or Jayne Moraski at 352-372-2549.
BENEFIT FOR DUFFY'S HEART FUND
HOLIDAZE SAUCE, a revue directed by Sheila Bishop as a benefit for Duffy's Heart Fund and the Acrosstown Repertory Theater:
Where: The Acrosstown Repertory Theater
When: Friday December 18 at 8:00 p.m.
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=357468230092&mid=1...
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A friend sent me the following quote from the Catholic mystic Thomas Merton. It has never seemed more pertinent to the times and our ongoing struggles:
"In this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for Him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because He cannot be at home in it, because He is out of place in it, His place is with those others for whom there is no room. His place is with those who do not belong, who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak, those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, who are tortured, bombed, and exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in the world. He is mysteriously present in those for whom there seems to be nothing but the world at its worst. . . It is in these that He hides Himself, for whom there is no room."
— Thomas Merton
love and blessings,
arupa
The Home Van needs tents, tarps, Vienna sausages, creamy peanut butter, jelly, candles, white tube socks, mylar emergency blankets and latex surgical gloves in sizes large and medium. Call 352-372-4825 to arrange for drop off. Financial donations to the Home Van should be in the form of checks made out to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, earmarked for the Home Van, and mailed to 307 SE 6th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601.