If you come into the alley entrance of the U Temple basement on Friday afternoons between 2:00 & 5:00 PM, you'll find a hub of activity centered around Friday Feast and the University Temple Thrift Store. The Thrift Store has been in operation since 2000, averaging 150+ customers each week.
You'll find showers available, coffee and cookies, and a safe caring environment, with a store whose goal is to provide clothes, housewares, linens, small appliances and miscellaneous items at minimal prices (or free if indicated). Our 150+ customers each week range in age from infants to seniors in their late 80's, many who come every week.
The generous flow of fresh donations helps keep the Thrift Store going. Items especially needed now are: warm clothes, jackets, blankets, as well as towels, small appliances and housewares. Due to space limitations, surplus items are given to places where there is more demand for them. For example: Baby's Corner; Treehouse; Aids Alliance; YWCA; Church of Mary Magdalene; local women's shelters; First Avenue Service Center; various homeless programs, including our shelter, Friday Feast; Night Watch; refugee programs; and Friends of the Library.
If you want to: SHOP, DONATE, VOLUNTEER, or just check out the operation, we welcome you.