A good spring clean may help sweep away the hopelessness felt by those doing it tough in our community.
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St Matthew’s Archdeacon Peter McLeod-Miller is hosting a garage sale in the grounds of his Adamshurst property on Saturday from 8am to 1pm to raise funds to help the homeless.
Truckloads of donations have been pouring in for the sale, which is set to include antique chaise lounges, paintings and jewellery, according to Father McLeod-Miller.
There are also 70 car spaces available for those who want to hire a spot for $20 and sell their wares from there, he said.
Father McLeod-Miller said the garage sale was the first step in a “community driven homelessness initiative” to support those struggling on both sides of the border.
Entry is by gold coin donation and some of the money raised will go towards the St Matthew's Crisis Care project, which includes plans to build a shower block and clothes washing facility for the homeless at the church.
He said the community had been roused to act in light of The Border Mail’s recent series on homelessness.
Only this week more than 200 emergency shower packs – towels and toiletries – were delivered on the back of a ute from Anglican parishioners at Rutherglen, Barnawartha, Chiltern and Browns Plains.
Father McLeod-Miller said it was grassroots action like this - “understanding someone else’s humanity” – that would make an immediate difference to the lives of people doing it tough.
“It’s about people in this community thinking of a good idea and just doing it; if we don’t do it who will?”
