Mark your calendars and start cleaning out those Attics, Basements, and Closets!!

This annual event provides everyone with the best of buys and opportunities for short-term service to the church and the community. It is a wonderful way to raise funds for worthy community organizations and increase fellowship in our parish community. You can help make this event a success by being a donor, a buyer and/or a volunteer.

Terrific volunteers have made this wonderful celebration of good will a reality for the community for the past 40 years. Last year $20,000 from the sale was donated to a variety of community services and organizations. Whether you participate to raise badly needed funds; to experience the excitement, tradition, and fellowship that is part of this sale; to empty your closets, drawers, or attics; or to shop for an incredible variety of merchandise at bargain basement prices; you make it all happen.

If you have only a few hours, a day or the whole week to give, you can be a big help. Volunteers serve in donating, sorting, arranging, picking up, pricing and selling merchandise, and in preparing the Church for, and cleaning up after, the sale. We depend upon our veteran volunteers and welcome assistance from any first-timers. Please check in the Help Wanted section of Crossings and stop by the ABC table between Sunday services to volunteer or to learn more about specific opportunities to join this enthusiastic group of parishioners.

We will need volunteers in all departments, a few vans and trucks (with drivers) for pick-ups, a strong and hardy clean-up crew, and possibilities for storage until the sale week. Peggy and Ted Pratt are the chairs for this year’s sale. Katherine Dauchert and Betsy Elkins-Williams will work closely with the chairs and will then chair the sale in 2004. Please call Peggy or Ted, 919-493-8059, if you have a specific interest.

The Sale Departments are Accessories, Adult Recreation, Bake Shop, Books, Children’s Toys, Children’s Clothing, Men’s Clothing, Women’s Clothing, Household Furnishings, Garden Shop, Linens, Treasures, and White Elephant. Other committees using volunteers are Publicity, Sorting, Parking, Cleanup, Sale Monitors and Greeters, Treasurer, Carol Woods and Carolina Meadows liaisons.

The Social Ministry Committee is now soliciting requests for funds from charitable organizations and will make recommendations to the vestry for disbursement of the sale proceeds. Anyone still wishing to make such a request should do so as soon as possible and may submit it to the parish office in care of the Social Ministry Committee. For more information, call Hugh Tilsonor Sandra McClaskey.

Send items for inclusion in future "Cross Roads."
The deadline is the first Thursday of the preceeding month.

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