Christmas, The Season of Joy, is Approching!

Sign Up to Volunteer and/or Donate Gifts

​We know that it is only November, but for us at HCM, that means it is time to get ready! Working again with our Church Partner and Host, Glory Chapel, our staff has already started recruiting volunteers and collecting gifts for our annual HCM Christmas Store. New to HCM? This special store allows parents the opportunity to buy new gifts for their children at tag sale prices.  HCM then uses the funds to subsidize the cost of sleepover camp in the summer.

Last year, the store was a huge success! We blessed parents and children with the option to shop from well over 1,000 gifts in our store! And, we raised  funds for sleep-away camp!  We were blown away by the sheer number of gifts as well as the variety and creativity of the items.  We had something for everyone and used any remaining gifts to stock our Noah After School and Camp Noah stores.

Here's How YOU Can Get Involved:

• DONATE:  We are looking for NEW, UNwrapped gifts (no toy guns or clothes please) appropriate for children in Kindergarten – 8th grade. Please click here to complete a quick form so that we can have a better idea of how many gifts to expect. 
  
  Gather your family, small group, workplace and/or church and collect as a group!
  
  
• DROP OFF: If you need to schedule a drop-off outside of the times below, please give our Program Director a call. November 28th,29th,30th, December 5th from 10:00 am-6:00 pm
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• GIVE:  Monetary donations are needed to support the cost of the running and managing the store. 
  
  
  
• SHARE:  If you know of other families, small groups, or churches who might also like to get involved, feel free to forward this email
  
  
• VOLUNTEER:  

1. 1. ​​SET UP AND STAGE THE STORE - Help sort, price gifts, and stage the store on: 
      • Tuesday, December 6th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm  
      • Wednesday, December 7th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm                                        (@ 280 Vine Street Hartford CT 06132) 
   2. GREET FAMILIES - Greet families and explain the process, wrap gifts and/or administer surveys during the store hours on Thursday, Dec 8th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm and/or Friday, Dec 9th from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.                                                
   3. CLEAN UP - Break down the store and bring extra gifts back to our storage space on Saturday, Dec 10th  from 12:00 - 3:00 pm.

                                                                                   

​                                                                                     Office Number 860.246.0132 ask For Mr. Jarrad.