A Call to Action to Help Homeless Families in Our Community

Collect and donate your good quality used books to the BOOK DRIVE 2010 and know that the online sales of those books will result in dollars which benefit Out of the Woods (OTW). OTW is an OUUC program which provides emergency shelter for families who are homeless in our community. Due to the current economy the need is urgent to raise funds that allow OTW to meet the needs of the homeless families it serves. Your contributions of used books and other efforts WILL make a positive difference for these families!

Here’s how YOU can help.

  • First, gather and bring your own good condition, used books to the shipping container in the south parking lot on Sundays.
  • Next, ask your family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to donate their used books to benefit OTW — and bring those books to the container.
  • Then, pick up an empty, labeled collection box to take to your workplace or club meeting and ask co-workers and colleagues to help fill that box with used books for the OUUC Book Drive.
  • Purchase used books online from Once Sold Tales, an online bookseller that does not charge shipping fees! The need is urgent. Book collecting begins NOW and ends Feb. 27. Your help will make all the difference for the families served by OTW.
  • Finally, donate cash to Out of the Woods.

The Book Drive Committee will be soliciting additional book collection sites in the community and seeking buy-in and support from the newspaper as well as other organizations and groups who may support projects of this nature. The committee will provide ongoing information to the Congregation about the progress of our Book Drive.

Finally, a few words about the decision to replace the annual Books-Brownies-Beans Sale with a Book Drive this year. Due to construction, timing for the permit for occupancy, scheduling and parking issues, for 2010 the committee has decided to replace the Sale with a BOOK DRIVE in which sales will be online only. This company, Once Sold Tales, has, in the past, sold our leftover books from the B-B-B Sales to the considerable benefit of OTW. The planning team has every hope and expectation that online sales from books collected by our Drive will raise the necessary funds for OTW.

Questions? books@ouuc.org. Planning team: Carol Allen, Linda Crabtree, Evelyn Greenberg, Michele Hendrickson, Jean Phillips, and Jan Spiller.

—Michele Hendrickson