Sunday, January 18, 2009

Dumping and Donations at the Mission

For those who do not know, The Upper Room Mission is a non profit Christian based organization that provides a day shelter, meals and services to the homeless and working poor. We are funded through our thrift store, grants and individual donations. Gracious community donations to the Upper Room Mission store helps generate sustainable funding for the day shelter and soup kitchen to operate. We are so thankful for the communities support!

There has been however, on more than a few occasions people misusing our drop off friendly parking lot by dumping over used and destroyed items after hours. It creates a terrible mess in front of the building and wastes The Upper Room Mission time and money to dispose of the items properly. We hope the installation of our new surveillance system inside and around our building will deter people from dumping.

We are very thankful to all of those people in the community who graciously donate new and gently used items to the Upper Room Mission store. We encourage the community to keep the support comming, Thank you!

You can drop off donations:

*Monday thru Friday from 9:00am till 4:00pm at the store

*Sat 10:00am till 3:00pm at the store

*After hour clothing donations can be put in our clothing chute

*Items too large for chute should not be left outside for they are generally stolen or destroyed

*Sunday donations can be given to Upper Room Mission Day Shelter staff (far left door)

Our doors are open because of the kindness of our
community, Thank you.


New Manager News!

We are very excited to greet our new Upper Room Mission manager Chuck Harper who is expected to arrive on March 1st! We wish you and your family a safe move from Manitoba and a very warm welcome to Vernon. See you soon!