Phyllis and Will Townsend deliver items for sale at the thrift shop.
Holy Cross supports the new Weare Thrift Shop. Outreach and involvement in the gospel work of justice and peace can be dramatic (see “Jonathan Daniels” below). But it can also be simple, practical and close to home. The wonderful group of women who have been operating the Weare Food Pantry for the past few years have now opened a thrift shop. Located in the center of town, it offers a wide variety of nicely displayed goods at very, very reasonable prices. The women are pleased to accept items, clean and in good repair, for sale. They could also use some help in sorting and other tasks. Thrift shop hours are Wed-Fri 10:00-3:00 and Saturday 10:00-1:00. All proceeds from the shop go to support the food pantry. Stop by and check it out. You’ll be impressed and want to help support it.
Jonathan Daniels as a seminarian.
Local saint Jonathan Myrick Daniels. The Episcopal Church honors a wide range of women and men as saints, based not on miracles attributed to them but on the example they set of holy lives dedicated to Christ and his Kingdom. One saint close at hand, whose commemoration falls on August 14, is Jonathan Myrick Daniels. Born in 1939 and brought up in Keene, NH, Daniels entered seminary after an experience of conversion on Easter Day 1962. Responding to an appeal by Martin Luther King for volunteers to help register voters in Alabama, he went south in the Civil Rights Summer of 1965. There he was gunned down on the steps of a country store by an angry white man who had been aiming at a teenage black girl whom Daniels pushed to safety as the shot was fired. More information is available by clicking on this link: http://satucket.com/lectionary/Jonathan_Daniels.htm