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Back Pack School Supply Give-away coming August 16th, 2017 Children from kindergarten thru 8th grade will receive back packs & school supplies this year at our Back Pack School Supply distribution Wed, Aug. 16th. Students must be present with a parent, grandparent or guardian. Thank you to the Tremont Apostolic Church and the New Beginnings Church, both of Tremont, for helping us help many students this year!! Plus thanks to Your donations of school supplies or cash for this project. It was greatly appreciated.
The Distribution will be Wed, August 16th from 1:00-4:00 pm or until supplies run out. The student must be present to receive the back pack. |
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PEKIN IS CLOTHING THE WORLD!!!!!
Several of you have seen & asked about the 53' trailer that sits outside of our warehouse on Peoria St just next to our Drop Off Center at The Hope Chest of Pekin. Many of you have asked me or a staff member what this is for??? In a given month, The Hope Chest Stores of Central Illinois receive close to 30,000 pounds of donated clothes, linens, purses, shoes, belts & toys. That is 15 ton of receivable merchandise! We sort through all of these donations every single day. It is a never ending cycle. I tell our staff it's job security. Our donors like yourself are generous & very supportive. Not every donation goes onto our sales floor. Because of our commitment to being a green company, any items that are not broken are recycled. For example, all of our winter clothes right now are being recycled or what we call "Remains". We work with a company in St Louis called Remains that drops off this trailer at our location. We then sort through our donations and separate it into bags of clothes, bags of rubber-banded shoes, bags of purses & belts, bags of hard toys & soft toys, & bags of linens & fabric. Many of these items have stains or years in them. When we fill the trailer in 2-3 weeks, Remains brings us a new trailer to fill up. Remains then pays us in pennies literally per pound. They then bundle & bale these items up & send them overseas to impoverished countries. These items are then given to mission organizations to distribute to poor people in countries all over the world. So the community of Pekin is clothing & extending hope to people in need over the entire world. That's what the trailer is there for. None of these items end up in a landfill. I share this information with our supporters so you understand the impact all of us are making in the world around us. Thank you so much for your donations & support. God bless you all. ~ Dave Craig, Ex. Director and Founder |
Happy 5th Birthday to us!!! HOPE Chest celebrates
5 years of Helping Other People Excel!!!
Thank you Pekin KROGER for donating delicious birthday cakes!!!!!
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Your music was fabulous Justin Robbins!!! Thank you so much!
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Thank you to The Amazing JR for amazing our customers!!!
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Thank you Mike's Knot Just Ribs!!!!
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Thank you to
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The HOPE Chest and our customers have raised $1,060 to sponsor an Amtryke. Together we will help a child with special needs become MOBILE... |
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THANKS for having a Heart of HOPE and helping make 1-2 children with special needs MOBILE!!
The HOPE Chest would like to THANK the PHS National Honor Society and Breanna Besimi for the nice check they presented to our organization!!!! The National Honor Society hosted a Student-Teacher Volleyball Tournament to raise the funds!! We are very grateful to you all!!!!
T H A N K You!!!
T H A N K You!!!
Join the Team... HOPE 365It's simple. And it's transforming. Register for a free HOPE 365 Change Bucket. Take it home. Put your loose change in the bucket every day. Fill it up and bring it back when it’s full. This money will go to support our ministry in Central Illinois and our community wide programs. Our recruiting goal is 100 individuals or families and 25 businesses who will commit to raising 365 dollars or more during the year to Help Other People Excel. Your change will bring HOPE to so many. And HOPE will bring change to a person's life.
So join the HOPE 365 TEAM. To register, simply do one of two things: 1. Email a message to communityserviceshopechest@gmail.com that you want to sign up and we will get back with you. 2. Stop in at any of our 3 stores to sign up. Thank you and God bless you. (ALL contributions are tax deductible.) |
Your Change brings HOPE
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You may bring a gift into the Pekin Store.
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Paws of HOPE Pet Food Pantry opens on Tuesdays & Thursdays 1-4 pm
In the month of February, the HOPE Pet Food Pantry served 237 DOGS, 243 CATS, 1 Rabbit, 4 Birds, 1 Fish. |
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Pekin HOPE Cupboard Food Pantries serves over 1,940 in the month of March!!!
In March, the HOPE Cupboard Food Pantry of Pekin served 1,509 individuals representing 462 families, also 240 SNAP, and 100 Snack Packs to the Boys and Girls Club locally. The Havana Food Pantry served 433 individuals representing 174 households. 94SNAP were served.
Thank you to those who have contributed in any way towards the ongoing ministry of the HOPE Cupboard.
We also welcome VOLUNTEERS for our Food Pantry. Inquire at the HOPE Chest how you can help bring hope to others!!
Thank you to those who have contributed in any way towards the ongoing ministry of the HOPE Cupboard.
We also welcome VOLUNTEERS for our Food Pantry. Inquire at the HOPE Chest how you can help bring hope to others!!
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Listen to an interview with our Ex. Director Dave Craig and his wife Alice on WPEO's program 'What in the World is God Doing?' It aired Sat. Nov. 15th. http://www.wpeo.com/audio/WWGD.html
Thank you Eli Beltran and Nelson Hostetler from WPEO for this interview! |
Thanks for visiting our website. Enjoy your stay here, but we invite you to stop in at both of the HOPE Chest Stores for the real deal.
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Pekin Store HoursMonday thru Saturday
9:00 am - 6:00 pm Closed Sundays Havana Store: Tuesday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm Saturday 9 am - 4 pm |
"I absolutely love your store. Your employees are amazing and thank you so much for helping people in need. You are all God's little helpers and I thank you for everything. I will continue to always donate and I encourage all of my customers to shop and donate there or CCO. God bless you all!" ~Becky M. |
The HOPE Chest Thrift Store of Central IL is a...
...501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Pekin, IL whose primary mission is to Help Other People Excel. We will do whatever it takes to be a store that is family friendly, low-cost, and provides many experiences for people to excel in life & become all that God has purposed for them. We intend to financially support local charities and churches through net proceeds generated by our thrift store operations and to reach out to underprivileged families in Central Illinois communities, by providing help and hope. HOPE stands for: Helping Other People Excel.
