Here’s a small thing you can do to help the homeless if you live in metro Detroit. Take your gently used or new boots for men or women and give them to the Detroit homeless. The PBJ Outreach team from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Plymouth is collecting them and distributing them frequently directly to the homeless they see every Saturday morning.

Deacon Tim Sullivan writes, “You cannot imagine until you see with your own eyes the creative footwear the homeless fashion in an attempt to keep frostbite from taking their toes. Detroit has the highest incidence of gangrene due to frostbite in the United States, and some of our guests downtown have actually lost their toes.” If you have decent boots that will help, please consider dropping them off at the Gathering Space in the church. (Go in the main door and turn right. The Gathering Space is the seating area behind the sanctuary.) The boots are being collected in the lefthand corner of the Gathering Space. If you’d like more information, email me [laurie (at) thedistrictandthed (dot) com] and I can give you Tim’s phone number. In the meantime, here’s a map to the church:

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