NightShift is undergoing an expantion and renovation, and they need your help! They’d appreciate any items as well as help with installation and removals.
Their wish list:
• High-traffic commercial vinyl for training and warehouse area flooring
• Outdoor roll shutters. Help prevent glass breakage
• Outdoor roll shutters. Help prevent glass breakage
• Outdoor signage (remove Sisters and replace with NightShift)
• Audio/visual installation
• Satellite radio and wiring new speakers at admin/reception, as well as additional outdoor speakers
• Replace our sliding cooler, used nightly by our food prep teams (must be restaurant quality)
• Design, donate and install a commercial kitchen, with a new 6 burns gas stove
• Need a new commercial faucet with sprayer on a retractable line to clean cooking pots
• Need a new Bunn coffee maker with warmer on top and a hot water tap (or a commercial coffee maker for 100+ cups of coffee)
• Commercial grade storage solution for travel-size toiletry items that we give out every night of the year (e.g. roll-out cubbies)
• And in the long-run, we’re looking to partner with a company to help us replace our limping, 11-year old mobile kitchen.
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NightShift Street Ministries, a not-for-profit, multi-denominational Christian organization that began helping the poor on King George Highway in the middle of a blistery snowstorm is expanding and ‘shifting’.
What started in a makeshift emergency overnight shelter in an unpretentious street church in 2004 has grown into a noteworthy operation offering nightly outreach, counselling, education and transitional housing. The Care Centre, which provides counselling and oversees a mobile Care Bus also offering nursing and library services, as well as two social enterprises, Ragtime clothing bins and Sisters Thrift Boutique, round out its operations on King George Boulevard.
The organization’s thrift store, www.SistersThriftBoutique.com is moving from Whalley to a new location in Guildford and opens on August 1st at 14888 104 Avenue.
Major expansion renovations start this week at the organization’s headquarters on 10635 King George Blvd to carve out much-needed space for additional counselling and administration offices, warehousing, and a new daytime training area, where we will continue to expand our programs for youth, young adults, women suffering abuse, mothers and tots, including our Art Classes, Alpha, and a new, expanded volunteer training program.
The MINGA project (Investors Group, Homebuilders Association of Vancouver members, Benchmark Homes, Centra Windows and Exclusive Floors) head up the renovations and support for this cause.
Painters, electricians, plumbers and other volunteers are urgently needed to help us with window coverings, lighting, flooring, audiovisual equipment, storage shelving, lockers and a sliding cooler!
Anyone interested in lending a hand or donating materials and/or funds for the cause check out www.nightshiftministries.org or call the office direct at 604.953.1114.
