We had to close for a few months during Covid but during that time we were still busy helping out where we could.

Through donations received we put together care packages that were dropped off at many of our local nursing homes.

This is one of a few articles that were written up about our store.

We were blessed to have a reporter who would come by and ask "What are you up to now?" I think he secretly watched what we were doing. LOL.

This was another God ordained event. I am still amazed to this day about how it all came about. We saw roughly 400-500 families come out during that 4 hour period to receive free games, free food and lots of gift cards. The most important part of the event was when Brother and Evangelist Ryan Keel preached a message to the people. Him and his beautiful wife, Sister Nichole were a huge blessing to us and helped us out a lot.

We had lots of games brought in from Dallas with a focus on teens. While the games, food, and gifts were amazing, the best part of it all, the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached. Evangelist Ryan Keel and his precious wife, Sister Nichole swooped in and helped us by being on the mic the whole day. Thankful to them and Brother Bobby Hall and his friends. Great things happen when we all get together and help one another. 

This guy was a regular in the back of the store. He would come and pickup whatever I left out at the end of the day. This is him pointing up showing his thankfulness. 

This is the same guy you see in the picture beside this one. He wrote a note on the back of the door. Yes on the back of the door of the store. It blessed us abundantly to see it. 

This thank you note was left by the guy on the right of this picture. I would put little bags of food out every single night and that is what he had in his hand.

This gentleman left the note you see on the left of this picture. You can see it on the steps of the back door to my store, Crosshouse Thrift. I miss these days.

During Covid we received donations and also donated items ourselves to local nursing homes. In these care packages we put in things like hand sanitizers, masks, games, puzzles and more!

My children and I drove around delivering the care packages to the local nursing homes.

Christmas Joy program where we provided the food for a Christmas dinner. Turkey, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, vegetables and more. Little goodie bags with tracts were included as well.

Gifts for all the children up to 18 years old were provided. Did you know most programs that help with Christmas leave out the teens? Teens are included in Christmas Joy.

More pictures of the boxes that each individual family received. They didn't get just one present, every child received a few.

It's a joy to be able to provide help to struggling families at Christmas time. That's why the program is called Christmas Joy. We hope that Christmas is a happier time with the help they receive and we get to share Jesus with them!