Church group will gather donations - and also try out life on the street
An
outreach group made up of adults, teenagers and kids from St. John's
United Methodist Church will have a makeshift cardboard box camp set up
in the parking lot of the Stockton Hill Road Taco Bell Saturday.
They'll
be showing solidarity with the homeless, holding up signs to raise
awareness and collecting toiletries to give to the people staying at the
Cornerstone Mission and Diana's Faith House as part of Hunger and
Homeless Awareness month.
"This is the first time we're doing
something like this," said Linda Chevalier, the chair for the church's
mission's team. "It'll be a big awakening."
Whether you can spare
a couple bottles of shampoo and conditioner or several tubes of
toothpaste makes no difference because all types of hygiene products
will be accepted, Chevalier said.
The group will be in the
parking lot from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. From there, they'll head to
the Cornerstone Mission, where they plan to stand in line for a meal
and eat dinner with the residents, she said.
Then they'll head
back to the church, where they'll sleep outside in the cardboard boxes
they used at Taco Bell for the hygiene drive.
"Hopefully we can make it through the night," Chevalier said.
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