SleepOut  
  2019 PNEC Sleep Out For Homelessness

Third Street Alliance for Women & Children provides a safe and healthy space for women, children, and families to live, learn, and thrive.

www.thirdstreetalliance.org

Third Street Alliance

From Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 6:00pm
To Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 10:00am (or earlier)

New Creation UCC
3730 Nicholas Street
Easton, PA 18045

 
 Information Flyer - Covenant - Permission Form 
 Sponsor Form  
 The idea:

To be the eyes, hands, and heart of Jesus in our community and the world.
To spend a night learning about what it might be like to be homeless.
To raise money for THIRD STREET ALLIANCE which provides a safe and helthy space for women, children and families to live, learn, and thrive. 

 Schedule:

Arrive 6pm Registration (eat supper at home), participate in various activities from 6pm-12 midnight to learn about homelessness and poverty. (Yeah, it’s fun too, no worries.) We will try to stay outside all night, weather permitting. However, if people need to go inside to sleep that will be arranged. Our goal is to raise awareness and money, not to get everyone sick.
– 12 Midnight Sleep/Settle In
– 7:30 am Wake Up, Get Dressed, and Clean up
– 7:50 am Group Photo
– 8:00 am Breakfast and discussion about next steps for advocacy
– 9:00 am Sleep Out Themed Worship led by participants
– 10:00 am Goodbye’s and leave for home

 

Dress warmly, bring a coat or extra clothing (hat and gloves).
You are allowed to bring a sleeping bag and pillow, 
personal toiletries (meds), 
pajamas (for outside, remember),
flashlight

Cell Phones and iPods/music must be off and away
    (used only with adult permission during program activity)
No money or food is needed

  • Participants should bring their own cardboard boxes to New Creation the night of the Sleep Out. Cardboard boxes will be used to create a sleeping area.
  • Dress warmly, bring a coat or extra clothing (hat and gloves).
  • Participants are allowed to bring:
    • a sleeping bag and pillow
    • personal toiletries (meds)
    • pajamas (for outside, remember)
    • Flashlight.
  • Cell phones and ipods/music must be off and away (used only with adult permission) during program activity.
  • No money or food is needed.
  • No food will be served during the night
    • (If you have a health or medical need, please bring your own food/drink).
  • Participants will be allowed to go inside the church to use thebathroom and to warm up when needed (beverages provided).

Donations:
Participants are asked to collect donations for Third Street Alliance in advance of the Sleep Out and turn them in at registration. A minimum donation of $25 per participant is encouraged, in addition to the following:

  • bar soap
  • body wash
  • mouthwash
  • deodorant (male and female)
  • hand/body lotion
  • shampoo
  • conditioner
  • bath towels
  • baby shampoo, baby lotion, baby soap
  • Lysol spray
  • all-purpose cleaner spray (i.e. 409, Fantastik, etc.)
  • dish soap
  • Pinesol/Mr. Clean/Fabuloso cleaner
  • laundry detergent and fabric softener
  • hand sanitizer w/ pump

If you want to attend the Sleepout:
YOUTH: GRADES 7-12: Complete and return your Covenant to your Youth Leader no later than Friday, September 13.  Collect money from sponsors and bring your sponsor form and ALL money to the Sleepout. Try to raise at least $25.  .

ADULT LEADERS: Hold onto paperwork and bring it to the event. Email/call Patty Rehrig at the PNEC office with names, grades and gender of youth and adults no later than Friday, September 13th.
ADULT CHAPERONES: There must be at least 1-2 adults attending from each church, with at least 1 per every 10 youth; more are welcome. You need to sign up now or as soon as possible. We need adult chaperones from 7pm-midnight as well as overnight. All adult chaperones must complete the PNEC Safe Child Disclosure form. Those who are sleeping over must apply for and provide copies of PA Child Abuse and Criminal Background checks. You may bring an air mattress and other comforts to sleep or you may volunteer to sleep inside.

For Information and Registration: Patty Rehrig This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 610-826-3113
Host Church Contact:
          Rev. Jameson Baxter This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 610-428-8653

 

Third Street Alliance for Women & Children provides a safe and healthy space for women, children, and families to live, learn, and thrive.

Serving the greater Lehigh Valley for more than a century, Third Street Alliance for Women & Children is a multi-program human services agency. Housed in the historic Simon Mansion and the adjoining Bixler-Ward House, we provide the community with 21st century STEAM programming in our Learning Center and expanded supportive services in our shelter for women & children. We believe in the power of communities, when people come together we can change lives.

The mansion, built between 1900-1902, sits along the corridor to historic Downtown Easton in an area known as Millionaire’s Row. The central location adds convenience for our program customers and also makes us a frequent stop for walking tours, architecture and history enthusiasts, as well as the general public. Within these walls, we house historically preserved community spaces, a commercial kitchen, shelter accommodations, a gymnasium, a 21st Century STEAM lab, childcare classrooms, and program administrative offices.

Our “Mansion with A Mission” represents a unique re-purposing of a historically preserved home into a contemporary program serving some of our most vulnerable community members.

 Third Street Alliance

 

www.thirdstreetalliance.org