Daily Bread Gift Boutique
While so many of our Daily Bread guests do without even many of life’s necessities, (it’s heart wrenching at the soup kitchen when guests ask us for items like diapers, baby food, socks, deodorant, hats, gloves, etc.) too many individuals are inundated with things that they don’t want or need at Christmas. Most of you know the frustration of trying to find another Christmas present for the person in your life who is so difficult to buy for. What husband needs another tie? What wife needs another piece of jewelry? What friend needs another candle? What grandmother needs more hand lotion? What teacher needs another coffee mug? This Christmas Daily Bread is offering you the opportunity to give that hard-to buy-for person a very special and unique gift.
We’re also giving those of you who get crabby at the whole idea of Christmas shopping a solution to your shopping woes since you can shop from your easy chair. According to 2 Corinthians, “God loves a cheerful giver.” But according to Catherine Hall, “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.”
At Daily Bread we feed the hungry of Champaign-Urbana every day of the year. On weekdays we serve the hungry a hot meal complete with drinks, salad, soup, entree, and dessert, and we send them home with a sack lunch for dinner. On weekends, with the help of a group of U of I students, we are now serving sack lunches and coffee, from a mobile van, and we are in the process of upgrading the van so that we can serve hot soup as well.
We’ve calculated the average cost of food every day ($99) and are offering you the wonderful opportunity to give your loved one (or yourself!) the gift of a day’s worth of food at Daily Bread. You can pick out your own special day (birthday, anniversary, etc), we’ll send you a lovely certificate that you can wrap and put under the Christmas tree. . Where else can you feed 200 people for less than $100!
Other gifts in our Boutique include a week’s worth of food ($692) and a week’s worth of garbage pickup ($85). For more concrete gifts we have Daily Bread aprons available at $15 and Daily Bread coffee mugs for $10.
Gina Stocking, pictured below with both the apron and the mug, can be contacted at 352-3611 or at socksfive@aol.com with any questions. All you need to do is call Gina and we’ll send you your gift right away! Happy Shopping!
