Joan Smith, a Sacred Heart parishioner, prepares to take a load of donated clothes from Sacred Heart Church to Harvey’s Chapel Baptist Church.

For more than a year, Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church parishioners have been donating clothes to the Clothes Bank at Harvey’s Chapel Baptist Church.  Harvey’s Chapel, located on Mountain Pine Road a few miles out of Mountain Pine, operates both a food pantry and clothes closet for needy residents of the Mountain Pine area.  Sacred Heart parishioners bring the clothes to church where they are collected all week.  On Mondays, Joan Smith, a Sacred Heart parishioner, loads up her car and takes the donated clothing to Harvey’s Chapel.  There is a great need for children’s clothes but all clothes are accepted and used.  Recently Sacred Heart learned that Harvey’s Chapel food bank was short of the funds it needed to restock some of its supplies.  Sacred Heart sent a donation to the Project Hope Food Bank to provide a credit for them to purchase needed supplies.  Sacred Heart is pleased that it can assist the people of Harvey’s Chapel in meeting the needs of the Mountain Pine area.