Root Cellar Christmas Shop Set Up

A Morning at the Root Cellar Christmas Shop

On the morning of December 9, 7 members of the PUMC congregation journeyed to Washington Avenue in Portland to help set up the Christmas Shop for local residents. Folks would later be coming in to buy Christmas gifts for friends and loved ones at much reduced prices. We were told that not as much merchandise had come in as in other years, but that a major gift of money had been received to go and buy more items.

Carol Bruneau, Dick Matthews, Kathy Brann, Barbara Kenney, Keith Snoddy, Art and Marlene Tordoff, arrived around 9:00 AM and found many of the donations that had been received from businesses, churches and other groups already set in place. Christine from the Root Cellar said that we could place price tags on any of the goods that didn’t have one. We did find that many of the coats and boots and other clothing had not already been tagged while most of the toys, games and other merchandise had already been taken care. She also told us that much of what had already been done had been accomplished by a sizeable group of students who had come in from North Yarmouth Academy the day before.

While buyers were not in our midst on this day we were pleased that we could help in any way that we could.

As you may know some of the donations had come from a collection of new toys that we had collected over the previous three weeks at Peoples, one of the many mission collections that we have been involved with at Peoples in recent weeks. We do hope and pray that the hall at the Root Cellar is filled with Joy and a number of homes will experience that Joy during this Christmas season.