 GHHC is hosting our first fundraising event "Divine Dignity" on Thursday, September 16, 2021 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at The Reception House on Trabue Road. Please join us to learn about our mission and vision. We will host a wonderful evening of great food catered by Schmidt's, music, fellowship, and testimonials. We will share our mission, how we are serving our neighbors in need and our vision to grow and expand to help more in our Columbus communities. Interested in attending? Please email Terry Starr at executivedirector@godshyiene.org Reservations are due by SEPTEMBER 10, 2021. SERVING WITH LOVE Opportunities for Growth and Expansion We have been working to develop partnerships with local area churches and organizations so that we can expand to help more people in need in our communities. There is a HUGE need in many communities, and we are being called to serve! We are being asked constantly to open more hygiene help centers and to partner with organizations like Helping Hands Health and Wellness Center and Lower Lights Christian Health Center to help to give hygiene to their clients. There is a list of community centers which have requested opening a hygiene help center at their buildings. God is calling us to grow and expand so we are making plans to do just that! As you lie down to sleep, may the Lord Himself rise up and fight for you! May He draw by His Spirit your loved ones who do not love Him. May He bring the breakthrough where there's only been a roadblock. May you remember this day and everyday that the battle is the Lord's! Sleep well tonight knowing God fights for you! #SusieLarsonBlessings Matthew 9:38 ~ So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields. because school matters is a success
Wow! We are beyond grateful for your love and support in helping to make “Because School Matters 2021” a HUGE success! We served hundreds of students and families with backpacks, school supplies, hygiene bags, shoes, toothbrushes and toothpaste, pizza and Cheryl’s Cookies. So many smiling faces, grateful hearts and shouts of “Thank you” and “God bless you!” We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the 45 volunteers serving with love with us! 134 parents registered. Gave out all 250 backpacks and needed more. Over 300 pairs of shoes were given away. 60 pizzas were donated and eaten! Over a dozen police officers attended including the K-9 dog and therapy dog. #16 Fire Engine with firefighters attended. Thanks to a Thrivent Action Team project, Diane was able to order a banner for our Because School Matters project which we can hang up each year. We also were able to order Bible scripture bookmarks to hand out at our Prayer and Resource Table. Thank you Thrivent! We could not have done it without you! God bless you, Tammy, Terry, Elizabeth, Diane, Chris, and Lesley Comments received: Volunteers: "it was so well organized" Columbus Police officer: "it was perfect" Officer Alesia Zacher: "I attended a lot of events this year and GHHC was the nicest." Christy Meister, Youth Services Supervisor, MLIS, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Linden Branch: Also, later in the day last Saturday, I met two students who were here at the branch that had been at Huy Elementary for the backpack giveaway. They both shared their excitement with me about their new backpacks and supplies. They had visited the library to use the computers and check out some more books. It was nice connection for me to share in their excitement for school and how they both felt prepared. Thank you for the work you do in the Linden community! For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. EPHESIANS 2:10 GHHC gives away shoes on national night out14,000 pairs of shoes were anonymously donated to God's Hygiene Help Center. That is a lot of shoes to be given away at just one event. So Tammy Jewell, her friend Crystal Anderson, and Diane Hendrickson decided to give away pairs of shoes on Tuesday, August 3 at National Night Out. We had planned to attend the event at the new Linden Community Center. Instead God told Tammy there was a greater need at the Milo Grogan Community Center. The highlight of Tammy's evening was meeting our. new City of Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant. Chief Elaine of course fell in love with our founder and our GHHC mission to provide hope and dignity through hygiene to those in need with the compassion of Jesus. She then offered to take a selfie with Tammy. Welcome Chief Elaine Bryant to Columbus and as head of our wonderful police force! more shoes given awayMore shoes were donated to VFW Post 4044. Our veterans and members truly appreciate God's Hygiene sharing with them. Then even more shoes were picked up to be given away. Dr. CeCe Harris came to get boxes and boxes of shoes for the Far East Community Center giveaway on Saturday, August 21. Our South Linden Police Liaison Alesia Zacher picked up a police car full of shoes for the Police Substation at 11th and Cleveland Avenue. Police officers always meet neighbors in need of shoes. So glad we can help pass them on to those in need. It takes more than a village to give away 1400 pairs of shoes! Thank you to our anonymous donor! community centers and backpackstGHHC is blessed to partner with Columbus Recreation and Parks. Hygiene is available for the Center Managers to distribute each month to their clients at the following Community Centers: Douglas in South Linden, Far East next to Walnut Ridge High School, and Barack in South Columbus. We plan to also put a HelpUu Center in the William H. Adams Center near East Elementary as soon as we get additional funding. Because of the generosity of UALC donating backpacks and of various donors of school supplies, we were able to partner with the Community Centers to provide backpacks for their students. So instead of one, there will be four giveaways of GHHC backpacks: Saturday, August 14 at Huy Elementary parking lot hosted by GHHC; Sunday, August 15 at William H. Adams Center; Saturday, August 21 at the Far East Center and in September at the Douglas Center. The Center Managers and their communities are so appreciative. American Heritage Girls  A wonderful group of young ladies from one American Heritage Girls group led by our friend Karen Schneiderhas been helping to collect and donate hygiene, personal care and cleaning products for GHHC. They donated a Clean Start Basket, school supplies and held a "Hygiene Collection" drive by giving out flyers and bags to their neighbors. They collected the hygiene donations and brought them to us to be given out at our hygiene help centers. THANK YOU for your heart to serve and help our neighbors in need!  columbus police help others At 8:45 am on Sunday, August 15, South Linden Liaison Officer Alesia Zacher, called Tammy for help. Other officers had seen panhandlers on the street corner and they wanted to get a young mother and her baby help and off the streets. The baby had a terrible rash because of dirty diapers. She was begging on the corner for money to buy diapers and crying about wanting to kill herself. Officer Zacher knew where to find that help--God's Hygiene Help Center. So Tammy went to the Help Center and packed up needed dignity items. Diapers, hygiene, cleaning items and shoes were then delivered by Officer Zacher to the young mother. The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 kindway recipients of clean start basket
celebration of andreaCongratulations to Andrea Yantone! We are so happy and proud of Andrea in her new life! Andrea has been a regular volunteer at God's Hygiene this past year helping stock inventory, greet and fill client orders. Our GHHC staff is excited that she will also share what a difference God's Hygiene has made in her life at our upcoming Divine Dignity fundraiser in September. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
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