October 2020

PROJECT WARM HAS STARTED

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.  Isaiah 41:10

God's Hygiene will be collecting blankets, gloves, scarves, hats, socks and gently used coats all winter.  
We distribute them to children, senior citizens, police officers, and others we meet in need.  
​You may bring your donations to 1402 Oakland Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9:30am - 1pm.  If you live near Arlington,  you can deliver items to Terry.  If you live in north Columbus, arrange to deliver to Diane.  Let us know if you would like a tax receipt.  Thank you for helping us give others some love and a warm feeling!
Clients are also already asking if there will be help with Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We are accepting gift cards to buy turkeys and to help families with toys.
God's Hygiene plans to open up 5 Help Centers next month:    our main Oakland Park Help Center,  Police Substation #5 on 11th, and 3 community centers Barack, Douglas and Far East.
It would be so helpful if we had more monthly Dignity Donors so we can plan our spending budget. Would you pray about clicking on this link to help us #wherelovewins.  Thank you!
​ www.godshygiene.org/donate.html

IN KIND DONATIONS

God's Hygiene so misses receiving and picking up all the in kind donations from UALC members on Sunday mornings.
​Thank you to the Joe and Sarah Rumschlag Family--this generous family of 8 shopped and then delivered lots of needed hygiene items like baby diapers, toothpaste and more.  
​Thank you to others who have also shopped and gave  in kind donations.

Do you have any Christian books you realize you will not read?  Please consider donating them to God's Hygiene.  Clients love having a choice of a book to take along with their bag of hygiene.

Thank you to Becky and Jim Harrass.  They had collected donations of clothing and more for the victims of the hurricanes.  But they didn't want them.  So Becky offered the extra bags of donations to HARP, and they couldn't need them.  Becky then contacted God's Hygiene to see if we could use any of the items.
Tammy and Diane were thrilled to pick up stuffed animals, toys and games for Christmas giveaway.  She also had bags of baby clothes to share with young mothers and bags of women's and men's clothes to share with the Sober Living House.  ​They returned later that week to pick up another SUV load full of donations.
Thank you Becky and Jim for arranging for these donations!  We also talked to them about the need for Bibles and as they are involved with the Gideons, Becky came to our Oakland Park Help Center to help pass out Bibles to clients on several Tuesdays.
Bonnie Johnston had fun passing out Bibles another week.  She also got treated to a homemade lunch just like our other volunteers.  We welcome other volunteers to join us  to help share dignity and for the fun!

we love our caring police officers

We have the most utmost respect for our Columbus police officers, especially our liaison Officer Alesia Zacher.  Late one afternoon Tammy received a phone call from the officer.  "Come with me.  A "John" has just dumped a "working girl" out of his car on Hudson.  She is dying in the arms of her friend.   
Tammy remembered the abuse and pain of her former life and reached out to "Sarah" age 42 to share her testimony, counsel her and try to convince her that she too can get a better life.
Book bags were given to the kids who saw a shooting from their home while they were doing homework.   The young person ran, while shot, through their yard and died across the street from their home.  The kids saw all of the turmoil, and yelling and screaming, the police outside, taping off the scene, guarding their back yard.  Officer Alesia as able to return to the neighborhood to show love and caring to the kids and mother.
From donations of Carol Thacker, GHHC also has been able to give to Officer Zacher and Officer Jim Poole:  2 cases of adult diapers, 200 Blessing Bags for the streets, 10 blankets, 20 pairs of  gloves, few hats,  scarves, some socks, school supplies of 4 backpacks and 8 notebooks.
One of our men helping with remodeling upstairs shared today how much it meant to him when an officer helped his son and gave these items to his grandkids.
We just wish everyone in Columbus could hear about the caring that our police officers show to members of the community.

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kits of kindness

ODW Logisticswww.odwlogistics.com held a hygiene drive supporting local charities.  There is a great need for personal hygiene products in pantries and programs within our communities.  Hygiene products are among the most requested items, but are not donated as often as food or household goods.
In concert with their customer partners, ODW Logistics; philanthropy team, the Reach Out Rangers, launched an initiative:  "Kits of Kindness."  They assembled "kits" where several personal hygiene items are placed in a bag, then boxed and delivered to local charitable organizations for individuals and families in need.  Their goal was to build at least 2,000 kits, which will be distributed in Central Ohio and Southern California.  God's Hygiene was blessed to receive 500 of those Kits of Kindness.  
Officer Alesia Zacher was the first to receive 20 Kits of Kindness for her wellness checks.  Evangelist Priscilla McCullough picked up 20 Kits of Kindness for members of  New Hope Global Community Church in Linden.  The managers of the community centers which we partner with each picked up 100 Kits of Kindness:  Barack, Douglas and Far East Side to distribute to their families during October for Halloween and November for Thanksgiving.  The rest of the kits will be distributed from God's Hygiene Help Center on Oakland Park.

embark and kindway

In October Tammy packed 2 Clean Start Baskets for men in Embark and 3 for women in the Kindway program.  Thank you to Crystal Anderson and her daughter for helping create these beautiful baskets.  
Jan Roberts, Kindway coordinator, said the women literally cried when they received their own beautiful basket full of hygiene cleaning items and other goodies. Look at the smiles on their faces! Only residents who have completed the Kindway and Embark program can receive a Clean Start Basket.
To learn more about the Kindway program, watch  their PIVOT! virtual fundraiser held on October 18.  https://youtu.be/sTLItIqRoWE

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 NIV

insulating our warehouse

Thank you to all the willing volunteers who have worked for days and hours on the upstairs of our warehouse.  Thank you to Mark, Jim, John, Ross and Cody Jewell, and  others, we now have insulation and drywall up.  On October 20 it was a little rainy and chilly, so we realized we needed some heat.  God nudged Tammy to call her brother's neighbor John McClanahan, who is an electrician, for help.
These are our drywall angels led by John finishing up what our other angels left.   Together we got it going.    Looks great!  Thanks guys for all our drywall angels.  
Huge thank you to John McClanahan for locating   a huge and affordable heater for our upstairs, then he donated it to us!  Wow!  We will be able to use the upstairs for office space and break room this winter and stay plenty warm.
​Thank you to our friend and supporter Jim Gericke of Durable Floors for donating the carpet for upstairs.

“Through Christ, God made peace between us and himself, and God gave us the work of telling everyone about the peace we can have with him.”​2 Corinthians 5:18 (NCV)

BLESSING BOX SANDWICHES

We want to thank a special family, the Hauglands,   who will help feed hundreds and hundreds of families.   We will make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and put them in the blessing box.   Over and over we are feeding many in our community; we accept everyone, how they are the way they are; we love our sisters and brothers as Jesus orders just to love each other as ourselves.   This family shows us how to do it.   Thanks  so much HAUGLAND family we are so appreciative of all this food.    God bless you and the kids!  All my love,  Tammy thank you thank you thank you thank you love GHHC where love wins.
Thanks to Freddie's  brother who delivered  loaves of bread to God's Hygiene.    This bread will help feed many families peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.   Thank you Tony Tomas for the bread.  
Thank you to Sue and Judy, the angels who come to restock the Blessing Box several times a week.  People are often waiting in line at 8 am for this food!

WELCOME VOLUNTEERS

We have open several  volunteer positions:  pick up hygiene product orders, bring to warehouse, and help stock shelves. Enter client forms in our Inventory Management System.   Communications Coordinator.  Development Coordinator. Please click on this link for more information or just ask Terry Starr.  Hours are very flexible for these volunteers.  ​

Welcome to Sandy Taylor and Jason Dobos, as God's Hygiene Help Center volunteers.  Sandy helps greet clients, pack their 6 desired items into a bag and delivers to them with a smile.  Sandy also joins volunteer Andrea on Monday evenings at Tammy's home for dinner and Alpha on Zoom led by Alan and Terry Starr.  Congratulations to Sandy who just accepted a full time position with the Limited Corporation.  You will be missed!
Jason has helped with clean up and will serve as security.  He first asked to volunteer for a community service requirement.
God's Hygiene takes good care of our volunteers by  always providing healthy snacks, bottled water and lunch for our volunteers.  Plus they receive bonus items.  Please complete the simple application on the Volunteer tab. ​

watch and pray by Bob Apel

Thank you Bob Apel for creating this pencil on mylar artwork for the 7 Day Bible Art Challenge on display at UALC at Mill Run.  Sales of prints will benefit God's Hygiene Help Center.  Contact Bob at rapel@directedlifestyle.com to order your desired size of  print.

tammy hears from the Holy Spirit

"Stay in and be at peace.  It's ok not to understand everything.  Calm down.  Don't try to work everything out.  I will make the right things happen.  Tammy, don't worry, you will get heat for the upstairs at the warehouse."  That day we got heat!
A woman had reached out crying to Tammy 4 times.  She lived in a domestic abuse situation and appealed to Tammy to call the police.  Instead Tammy called CHOICES and just handed the phone to the woman.  That's another reason Tammy opened up God's Hygiene Help Center--to share resources and hope with others.  
"I long for you to trust Me enough to be fully yourself with Me. When you are real with Me, I am able to bring out the best in you: the very gifts I have planted in your soul."  from Dear Jesus  page 60
But the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.  1 John 4:4