Check our "Calendar of Events" link on the right side.
Our schedule of closures for the upcoming holiday season can be found there.
12/24 - 1/7/2009
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Labor Day Weekend
The Fort White Community Thrift Shop will be closed for the Labor Day Holiday Saturday through Monday. We are planning to re-open Tuesday morning, September 2nd.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Closed This Week
The Fort White Community Thrift Shop will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week in honor of the late Jim Roach. Also, in the interest of public safety during the forecast visit of tropical storm Fay to our area. We are planning to re-open Friday morning.
Monday, June 9, 2008
We're Back!
The Fort White Community Thrift Shop has re-opened after our Spring Cleaning and Re-Stocking.
Come on in and have a look around.
Betty Bush
Come on in and have a look around.
Betty Bush
Friday, May 30, 2008
Closed for Spring Cleaning 5/31 - 6/8
The Fort White Community Thrift Shop will be closed from May 31st for their Spring Cleaning and Re-Stocking, We will re-open on June 9th.
We look forward to serving our Community this Summer.
Betty Bush
We look forward to serving our Community this Summer.
Betty Bush
Thursday, February 14, 2008
In many buildings on 2 city blocks, store helps causes worldwide
By Michelle Stuckey - For The Herald
FORT WHITE — Betty Bush first thought of the idea to start a thrift shop after a yard sale at a local church.
“There was a lot of stuff left over and we laughed and made the comment that we needed to start a thrift shop, and that’s exactly what we did,” Bush said.
A short time later, in June of 1997, the Fort White Community Thrift Shop was opened for business.
When the shop began, it was affiliated with a local church but soon became incorporated and now helps many different churches with their mission trip needs, with many of those needs spanning the country and even the world, said Connie Moseley, who has been volunteering since the shop began.
Each morning when the shop is opened, prayers from their community prayer board are read.
“We open up the shop with prayer,” she said. “That’s the number one thing.”
Since it began 10 years ago, the shop has been helping out non-profit organizations and international mission trips. And the shop has grown, now encompassing several buildings on two city blocks.
The volunteers at the shop collect items from all over the community and sometimes go further to pick up donations, Moseley said.
Moseley was one of the shop’s first volunteers when it began 10 years ago.
Only Moseley and Bush have volunteered regularly since the shop began.
While most of the other volunteers are of retirement age, the shop is connected with the county judicial system and they get people, even teens, who have been sentenced to work community service, Bush said.
“A lot of these people have not been exposed to this kind of love,” Bush said. “They realize that life is not about ‘me.’”
Moseley echoed similar comments.
“If someone wants to have a full life, getting out and giving back to the community is the best way to achieve one,” Moseley said. “It has been the most gratifying experience of my life.”
Locally, the shop is involved with helping schools, libraries and senior services, among other activities. This includes a program that awards student progress at Fort White Elementary School.
Each year, teachers can choose any student from their class for any reason to receive an award and a check for $25, Moseley said. They also award one fifth-grader the Principal’s Award along with a $50 check.
Nationally, the shop helps disaster areas, non-profit organizations and medical institutes.
In the past, they have stocked trailers full of supplies for disaster teams going to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They also have donated money and supplies to non-profit religious and medical organizations all over the country, according to Moseley.
Internationally, the shop has donated to multiple mission trips and international medical groups in need of supplies and funds, such as Doctors Without Borders.
They are currently preparing supplies to send with a mission to Nicaragua, Moseley said.
“We try to find a home for everything,” she said.
According to Bush, the shop is so successful because everyone working there is volunteering, even the board of directors, and because they are led by the Holy Spirit.
“I’m reminded of a song that says ‘Help somebody today, help somebody along life’s way,’ and that’s what we do,” Bush said.
FORT WHITE — Betty Bush first thought of the idea to start a thrift shop after a yard sale at a local church.
“There was a lot of stuff left over and we laughed and made the comment that we needed to start a thrift shop, and that’s exactly what we did,” Bush said.
A short time later, in June of 1997, the Fort White Community Thrift Shop was opened for business.
When the shop began, it was affiliated with a local church but soon became incorporated and now helps many different churches with their mission trip needs, with many of those needs spanning the country and even the world, said Connie Moseley, who has been volunteering since the shop began.
Each morning when the shop is opened, prayers from their community prayer board are read.
“We open up the shop with prayer,” she said. “That’s the number one thing.”
Since it began 10 years ago, the shop has been helping out non-profit organizations and international mission trips. And the shop has grown, now encompassing several buildings on two city blocks.
The volunteers at the shop collect items from all over the community and sometimes go further to pick up donations, Moseley said.
Moseley was one of the shop’s first volunteers when it began 10 years ago.
Only Moseley and Bush have volunteered regularly since the shop began.
While most of the other volunteers are of retirement age, the shop is connected with the county judicial system and they get people, even teens, who have been sentenced to work community service, Bush said.
“A lot of these people have not been exposed to this kind of love,” Bush said. “They realize that life is not about ‘me.’”
Moseley echoed similar comments.
“If someone wants to have a full life, getting out and giving back to the community is the best way to achieve one,” Moseley said. “It has been the most gratifying experience of my life.”
Locally, the shop is involved with helping schools, libraries and senior services, among other activities. This includes a program that awards student progress at Fort White Elementary School.
Each year, teachers can choose any student from their class for any reason to receive an award and a check for $25, Moseley said. They also award one fifth-grader the Principal’s Award along with a $50 check.
Nationally, the shop helps disaster areas, non-profit organizations and medical institutes.
In the past, they have stocked trailers full of supplies for disaster teams going to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They also have donated money and supplies to non-profit religious and medical organizations all over the country, according to Moseley.
Internationally, the shop has donated to multiple mission trips and international medical groups in need of supplies and funds, such as Doctors Without Borders.
They are currently preparing supplies to send with a mission to Nicaragua, Moseley said.
“We try to find a home for everything,” she said.
According to Bush, the shop is so successful because everyone working there is volunteering, even the board of directors, and because they are led by the Holy Spirit.
“I’m reminded of a song that says ‘Help somebody today, help somebody along life’s way,’ and that’s what we do,” Bush said.
Friday, January 4, 2008
A New Year
Welcome back!!
Our store will reopen this morning for regular business hours.
We are looking forward to another new year of service to the community and others. Come one, come all, it is time to start in again.
Our store will reopen this morning for regular business hours.
We are looking forward to another new year of service to the community and others. Come one, come all, it is time to start in again.
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