LCH will be hosting a Free Store for the Makiki neighborhood on Saturday, September 21, in the Hörmann Courtyard. Our last Fee Store in 2022 (pictured on the right) was just for our congregation, but this time we will be inviting the whole neighborhood to be parts of this manifestation of the “gift economy,” in which goods and services are freely exchanged with no payment or promises to pay. As Christians, we think of free stores as something of a revival of the early Christian communal economic arrangements. It benefits our environment (by keeping stuff out of the landfill) as well as for people shedding unwanted/no longer needed/still useable “stuff” and people gaining items they need
Members of the congregation have been bringing items from home which are in good condition but no longer needed, signing up to staff the Free Store, and letting our neighbors know about it. If you want to help, contact the LCH office by noon on Thursday.
On Saturday morning, September 21, we will welcome our neighbors to campus, hoping they find just what they need to take home.