Annual or Quarterly Support
Sock Collection Daybreak's Allentown daytime drop in shelter continues to need new and gently used socks. Please place your donations in the collection box in the chapel.
St. Luke's Winter Clothing Drive: During the colder months (November - March), GLC collects gently-used winter coats, hats, scarves, gloves, and sweat suits. These are given to St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in downtown Allentown, where they are distributed to people in need. Men’s, women’s, and children’s coats of all sizes are needed. During the season, please leave your donations in the large blue bin in the chapel. This past cold season, Grace collected and donated 55 coats and 105 hats, gloves, scarves, and other clothing items.
The Kindness Project: Backpacks and school supplies are collected during the summer and given out before school started. The Kindness Project gives support to Foster and Adoptive families across Eastern Pennsylvania.
Lehigh Mission District Ingathering: Through the Lehigh Mission District of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod of Lutheran churches, the annual Ingathering provides needed personal items and Christmas gifts to many different non-profit institutions in the Lehigh Valley. Grace collects the requested items during October and November. The items are then packed up and delvered to the organizations in need during the first week of December. For 2023, Grace was given two Lehigh Valley organizations to support: Daybreak (a weekday drop-in center run by the Lehigh Conference of Churches) and The Lutheran Home at Topton (Diakon).
Items collected for Topton: markers, pens, sidewalk chalk, glue sticks, popsicle sticks, children’s books, Scotch tape, washable paint, scrapbooking supplies, hand soap, and hand wipes for a total of 539 items.
Items collected for Daybreak: hats, gloves, scarves, sweat pants, sweatshirts, women’s t-shirts, men’s underwear, sweat socks, men’s and women’s slippers, and $10 Walmart gift cards for a total of 263 items.
Items collected for Good Shepherd children: ten wrapped gifts and a total of $740.00.
Thanks also to Thrivent Financial for their donation of $250.00, which was used to purchase some of the more items given. THANK YOU to all who contributed!
Ongoing Support
ELCA World Hunger Appeal: We give to help eradicate world hunger through the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Learn more about the ELCA's efforts at this link: https://www.elca.org/Our-Work/Relief-and-Development/ELCA-World-Hunger
Lutheran World Relief: We make health kits for disaster survivors, and also contribute financially. LWR gives lifesaving aid to those in emergencies around the world. Read more about their efforts and what you can do to support them: https://lwr.org/
