Letter from the New Hope's Treasures Sterling Thrift Store Manager

Dear Friends,

I am very happy to be working as the new Manager of Hope's Treasures Thrift Store in Sterling VA. There has been tremendous positive change in many areas of the store since I started working here a few months ago. The store has totally been reorganized with many new improvements and new employees as well.

Hope's Treasures which is over 6,000 square feet now has brand new frontal exterior lighted signage installed on the front of the building with our Good Shepherd Alliance logo to let everyone know where we are located. The interior of the store has been redesigned and reorganized with a new floor layout plan separating the various specialty sections for easy shopping. Brand new carpet has been installed which gives a fresh and clean professional look inside of the store.

All of interior walls have received a fresh coat of paint. Eight new Good Shepherd Alliance banners are being hung along the interior walls to inform our customers about how we help the homeless and other people in need from our community. We are constantly getting new items from gracious people that are so kind to give their donations to us so we can ultimately sell the products to help people. We periodically have special sales so shoppers can get great deals on unique and collectible items.

The employees who work here are doing a fantastic job working together as a team to keep everything running very smoothly and efficiently to make our customers shopping experience very pleasant. We also have many great volunteers from our community to assist us here daily doing a great job to make a huge difference. Our key staff members, Board of Directors and members of our Advisory Board all contribute much time and exhaustive efforts to help us to be successful. We now have a newly designed website so people can read about how we help the community (www.goodshepherdalliance.org).

Sales have been steadily increasing with a noticeable increase in our customers. Hope's Treasure retail Thrift Store is a major source of revenue for The Good Shepherd Alliance, Inc which is a Christian non-profit organization providing emergency shelter for the homeless and transitional housing and outreach services in Loudoun County. In addition, the thrift store provides much-needed clothing and household items to needy individuals and families through our voucher programs.

I feel fortunate and blessed to be working with such a great organization that is focused on ultimately helping people in need. I will continue to work towards making Hope's Treasures Thrift store the best it can be always keeping one thing in mind. '...with God all things are possible.' Matthew 19:26 / Mark 10:27. Thank you Jesus!

Keep the faith,

Dan Himmel
Manager
thriftstore@loudounhomeless.org