Help The Homeless This Holiday Season In Orange County

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — The Orange County Rescue Mission has called on the local community to help deliver holiday cheer to the 193 formerly homeless men, women and children living at the Village of Hope. The Rescue Mission has announced an urgent need for holiday gift donations, which the children at the Village of Hope will give to their parents.

“This is a unique and tender time for the families living at the Village of Hope,” says Orange County Rescue Mission President, Jim Palmer. “This gift donation and exchange gives children the opportunity to experience the joy of giving by selecting holiday gifts for their parents – many for the very first time.”

Specific donation items needed include new:

• Slippers
• Wallets
• Reusable Water Bottles
• Journals
• Baseball caps
• Scarves
• Socks
• Belts
• Hair accessories

Donations of the above items may be dropped off at the Orange County Rescue Mission’s Village of Hope, located at 1 Hope Drive in Tustin, California, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00p.m., Monday through Sunday. Contact Katie Roberts at 714-247-4389 or email info@rescuemission.org for more information.

New Gift Catalog Allows Community to Donate to Specific Needs

The Rescue Mission has also announced its first holiday gift catalog, through which donors can contribute to a specific cause in someone’s honor and designate it as a holiday gift. The new gift catalog is accessible at https://catalog.rescuemission.org/.

“In honor of the season of giving, we wanted to provide community members with a way to give back specifically to the causes that most touch their hearts and a chance to gift their donation,” says Palmer. “This is a first for the Rescue Mission, and we hope the community will take this opportunity to spread additional joy this holiday season.”

Gift values in the catalog range from $8.00 to $450.00 and provide funding for a variety of programs offered at the Village of Hope including year-round school supplies for kids, safe shelter, and adult high school education, among others

OC Rescue Mission Photo