Enough Money Raised for a Whole House!

This year proved to be the best year yet for the St. John’s UCC and Habitat for Humanity of Franklin County book sale. A check for $41,000 was presented to Habitat on Sunday, November 8. What is even more amazing is that the 5 years of revenue from the book sale has raised enough to cover the cost to completely build a Habitat home!

This book sale would not be a success without the generosity of donors, businesses willing to be collection points, and the many, many volunteers who gave of their precious time to help deliver, pick up, sort, and set up books, as well as help and check out customers at the book sale. We try to keep track of the number of hours spent for the book sale, and we tracked over 1,300 hours this year. With additional hours given and not logged, the total volunteer hours were probably closer to 2,000! We truly could not do it without everyone helping.

We look forward to next year and improving the book sale even more. If you would like to be added to the book sale email list that gets periodic updates (around 3 total – usually 2 before the book sale and 1 after), click on this link and fill out the form.

Thank you!