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A non-profit organization hosting a regifting event at Hampton’s Crossroads Baptist Church Friday.
Patch Work Co-Founder Kim Walker said the event allows children from the ages of four to twelve to pick out two free gifts for their parents or caregivers regardless of income. Walker said she got the idea to do a regifting event after having a conversation with a friend about how she could help out people in the community.
“We called it regifting because the idea was that we hoped that people who maybe got a gift they didn’t like or couldn’t use would take that gift and donate,” Walker said. “Then we would regift it and kids would come shop for their parents.”
Walker said over the past several years the world has changed and made it more difficult for kids to shop for an adult. Walker said the event helps teach kids the importance of giving and not just receiving.
“This idea is no matter how small, no matter how little, no matter how much you have you can always help someone and bless someone,” Walker said. “So I think it is very important that people know that because a lot of people feel the same way I did that they didn’t have the time, they didn’t have the money, they didn’t have the resources, they didn’t have the gifts but we all have something that we can do to help people.”
Walker said the event is more than just picking out gifts. Walker said the children will also help make a quilt.
“Children will decorate a quilt square and sometimes they put their names, sometimes they do drawings,” Walker said. “And then those quilt squares that are gathered this year, a quilt will be made sometime in the year this year and then next year at the regifting event there will be quilts to give out.”
Walker said people can nominate someone to receive a quilt and will pray over the person who needs the quilt. Walker said the children will also assemble goodie bags for local Head Start families.
Walker said people can register on the day of the event. The event runs from 8am-1pm on Friday, November 29th at the Hampton’s Crossroads Baptist Church fellowship Hall.
