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WJLA/ABC – Va. artists donate paintings to food center volunteers to show gratitude for their service – A group of artists wanted to show their appreciation for the charitable work of volunteers…

Homewood Star – Community comes together to craft crozier for new bishop – When the Rev. Glenda Curry was named the first female bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama…

The Brunswick News – Hello Goodbuy donates funds to community – Charities like to tell donors or customers their money is going to a good cause. In the case of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church’s hello Goodbuy thrift store, it goes to good causes, most recently 14 of them.

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Va. artists donate paintings to food center volunteers to show gratitude for their service

WJLA/ABC – Culpepper, VA

A group of artists wanted to show their appreciation for the charitable work of volunteers at a food organization in Culpeper, Virginia.

And true to form, these creators did it in their own unique way, they gave them the gift of art. Artists with the Blue Ridge Art League (BRAL) based in Culpeper donated several of their works of art to volunteers with the Food Closet.

The Culpeper Food Closet is an outreach ministry of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, operating as a full community effort with the work of over 90 volunteers from the area. The organization started in 1984 and receives food and monetary donations from local businesses, organizations, churches, and individuals. According to its website, the donations provide 3,500 meals weekly for families and individuals in Culpeper. […]

Community comes together to craft crozier for new bishop

Homewood Star – Homewood, AL

When the Rev. Glenda Curry was named the first female bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, she asked one of her fellow parishioners, Danny Whitsett, if he could make her crozier.

Whitsett had just one question: What is a crozier?

“I didn’t even know what she was talking about, but it’s basically the wooden staff,” Whitsett said. “It looks like a big shepherd’s hook.”

Whitsett does specialty paint finishes and woodworking, but he doesn’t do very detailed woodworking, he said.

“So this was a little bit beyond my comfort level,” he said. “But I was so honored, so I said I would basically just figure out how to do this.” […]

Hello Goodbuy donates funds to community

The Brunswick News – Brunswick, Ga

Charities like to tell donors or customers their money is going to a good cause.

In the case of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church’s hello Goodbuy thrift store, it goes to good causes, most recently 14 of them.

Since 2012, the store overseen by St. Mark’s Outreach Ministries has given $1,156,245 to more than 125 local charities including the $52,150 it gave a few weeks ago.

“That’s just money we’ve been able to give away,’’ said Louisa Nightingale, operations manager for the store. It also gives away some of the donated items especially quality clothes, household goods and furniture to those who don’t have the means to shop, she said.

Although it goods and prices may resemble those of yard sale organized and moved indoors, it is a Christian ministry.

Its location in what was a KFC then a Mary Miller Doll Museum, the store draws people from often busy U.S. 17. It has good word-of-mouth advertising, however, with quality goods at sometimes astonishing prices. The bargains start before shoppers can get inside with hardback books for a quarter and paperbacks for a dime out front. On a recent day, there was a barely used high chair, two children’s bikes, a couple of boogie boards, a charcoal smoker and racks of clothes sitting in front of the entrance. […]