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Support Love Our Neighbors: Supporting ECHO in January 2025

Join New Hope Church in January 2025 as we partner with ECHO (Emergency Care Help Organization) to provide essential food, clothing, and toiletries to neighbors in need. Learn how you can help and make a difference today!

At New Hope, we believe in showing Christ’s love through action. This January, we’re excited to partner with ECHO (Emergency Care Help Organization) as part of our Love Our Neighbors initiative. ECHO has been a lifeline for neighbors in need, offering emergency food and clothing right here in Brandon.

How You Can Help:
ECHO is in need of specific items this month, and your generosity can make all the difference:

  • Men’s clothing and shoes (waist sizes 28-34)

  • Women’s pants (sizes 0-2)

  • Feminine products

  • Full-sized toiletries

  • Non-perishable food items

  • $10 gift cards

🗓 Key Date: On Sunday, January 26th, we’ll host a special collection during services. Plus, we’ll share a heartfelt video that highlights the amazing work ECHO does every day.

📍 ECHO Brandon Resource Center Details:

  • Address: 507 N. Parsons Ave., Brandon, FL 33510

  • Hours: Mon-Fri: 9 AM – 1 PM; Tues: 5 PM – 7 PM

  • Website: www.echofl.org

  • Phone: 813-685-0935 ext. 8000

This is more than a collection drive; it’s a chance to make a real impact in our community. Whether you bring a donation, share the need with others, or simply pray for those ECHO serves, you are part of God’s mission to care for those in need.

Together, let’s show love and bring hope to our neighbors this January.

#LoveOurNeighbors #ECHO #NewHopeChurch

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Stocking the Shelves for Neighbors

Christmas at New Hope – Stocking the Shelves for Hope for Her and ECHO

For the last fifteen years, New Hope has been involved in the Gift of Hope, a partnership between ECHO and area churches to provide food, gifts, and spiritual support to needy families during the Christmas season.  Over the years, fewer churches have participated and the bulk of the work has fallen on a smaller group of churches while need in our community has increased.

 

This year, our Gift of Hope team, which consists of representatives from ECHO and several North Brandon churches, decided to make a shift.  With less participation and feeling the strain from the two recent hurricanes, the team decided to take a hiatus from Gift of Hope in 2024.  Each participating church will now lean into whatever they feel God calling them to do for this season.  Next year, we hope to come back together with a renewed sense of energy and passion to empower local families during the holiday season.

 

At New Hope, we feel like the greatest need right now is food. We have families in our community that are feeling the crunch after the storms and the increased cost of food is not helping.  Thus, during November and December, we are stocking the shelves at ECHO and Hope for Her.  Instead of gifts, we will be collecting peanut butter, jelly, pasta, spaghetti sauce, ramen noodles, cereal, canned fruit and vegetables, basic toiletries, and $10 gift cards to help families purchase meat.  Our goal is to literally restock the shelves for our local mission partners who have been feeling to pinch of increased grocery prices and increased need.

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Backpack Hero Day - Donations Needed

 

Backpack Hero Day

New Hope has pledged 100 backpacks for the event. Donations can be dropped at the church office Monday through Thursday from 9am to 4pm or in the lobby of the main sanctuary on Sunday mornings.

The purpose of Backpack Heroes is to create a much larger positive impact on families in our community by consolidating numerous smaller back-to-school events in the East Hillsborough area. This event is geared to provide school-age children with backpacks in time for school and educate parents on the resources available to them in the East Hillsborough community.

Through Backpack Heroes families learn about tools and resources available to them in the community to assist them in their mission to provide and succeed.

Looking for more information on Backpack Hero Day or details on how to register? CLICK HERE

 
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Backpack Hero Day - Donations Needed

 

Backpack Hero Day

New Hope has pledged 000 backpacks for the event. Donations can be dropped at the church office Monday through Thursday from 9am to 4pm or in the lobby of the main sanctuary on Sunday mornings.

Backpack Heroes aims to create a much more significant positive impact on families in our community by consolidating numerous smaller back-to-school events in the East Hillsborough area. This event is geared to provide school-age children with backpacks in time for school and educate parents on the resources available to them in the East Hillsborough community.

Through Backpack Heroes, families learn about tools and resources available to them in the community to assist them in their mission to provide for and succeed.

Looking for more information on Backpack Hero Day or details on how to register? CLICK HERE

 
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