Calling all donors to campus ministry yard sale for homeless
Janel Shoun |
Lipscomb University’s student campus ministry will hold an on-campus yard sale at 6 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 21, with proceeds benefiting the Nashville Rescue Mission. The sale will be held in a tent on the Quad.
The community is not only invited to come shop in the bounty of second-hand treasures donated by students, faculty and staff, but also to donate their own items to benefit the homeless of Nashville. Donations will be accepted in the Quad, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, and Thursday, April 19, and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday, April 20.
Items are expected to fill a 40- by 50-foot tent and may include everything from workout equipment and furniture to sporting goods, home décor and clothing. Anything not sold at the sale will be donated to the Nashville Rescue Mission.
This is the second time Lipscomb students and campus ministers have come together to host a yard sale for charity. The event was inspired in 2004 by a Lipscomb Bible professor who encouraged students to become less worldly and more spiritual.
“A good way to show that we are not bound to our material possessions is to sell something we perceive as valuable in order to help those who have more fundamental needs,” Assistant Professor George Goldman told the students in chapel in 2004.
Lipscomb University delivers a complete liberal arts education characterized by an integration of Christian faith and practice with academic excellence, preparing each student spiritually, intellectually, socially and physically for life and eternity.