Operation Christmas Child
4 November 2021 – Operation Christmas Child, Here we come!!! Lynette, one of our long-term volunteers, asked if we could be part of a child’s Christmas miracle in 2021. Our Sorting Services Team made a team project to fill 6 boxes, which quickly became a dozen and then a total of 33 x full boxes […]
Community Connection Post Covid Lockdown
Covid lockdowns bought isolation and loneliness to many people in our community. So many normal activities were shut down and then slow to reopen. We made an early decision to reopen our Garage Sales as soon as we were allowed as being an open air activity they were about the safest way people could gather […]
International Students Find Family
July 2018 Over the years we have been blessed to include international students from Newcastle University in our team. Some were on their way to permanently becoming Aussies and some were here for a short time to get their degree before heading back to their home country. India was a long way from Cardiff for […]
Miracle Toys For Maylasia
Thursday 22 August 2019 – From Gail’s Facebook Posts:- “Faith means doing everything you can and trusting Jesus to do what we can’t. My faith is getting a workout tonight. Why? We need 500 boxes of toys to be donated And packed by Monday… yes, that’s Five Hundred! We’ve done all we can – sent […]
Easter Miracle Starts New Careers
Easter 2019 saw Rene enjoying lunch with her friend Danielle. At that lunch she met Corinne from our office. As they chatted, they discovered that Rene was looking for a part time job while she finished her studies in Social Work and we needed a part time office assistant. It was a chance meeting, a […]
Volunteering To Find Love
This must be one of our favourite miracles of all. After Corinne’s husband passed away, she found hope, purpose (and unexpectedly, LOVE) again at Church 4 Life Charities. “Church 4 life made such a difference in my life… for a while my purpose was just supporting my husband (who had cancer) but once I’d lost […]
Every Volunteer Is A Miracle
We started with a handful of volunteers and as we have grown been blessed with hundreds of answered prayers that are volunteers who give of themselves to come and help us in our mission. Our volunteers have done everything from stapling flyers to bags, folding bags, letter box dropping, collecting and processing donations, loading shipping […]
Reading Miracles
From time to time, we enjoy being part of the miracle of giving books to groups in our community – like Goodstart Early Learning Cessnock, Tilly Tadpoles at Tanilba and Opal Aged Care at Mt Hutton. How fantastic that your donated books can go to local daycares and preschools, instead of going into landfill If […]
Christmas Kindness
In November 2021 we had a wonderful donor named Corinne call us saying that her brother and her purposely spend each year buying and storing clothing, with the purpose of giving a bulk lot of brand new items to charities at Christmas time. They have done this for the past 25 years. Neither of them […]
Purple Rain
On Monday 21 August 2023 our wonderful team member Sue was sad. After a very long battle with a degenerative disease her sister Raylee had finally passed away the day before. Sue knew that coming and volunteering would help with processing her grief. What she didn’t expect to find as she sorted through donations was […]