Welcome to the Golden Exchange!

Do you ever look around your house and think, "I have so many things that I don't really use, but I don't want to just throw them away. I wish I could get them to someone who really needs them!" Almost new baby clothes, books you've already read, more religious items than you could ever possibly need, a Christmas gift you know you'll never use, or the extra nine ________ that you bought in a package of ten because it was such a good deal. :) As Americans, we are often overwhelmed by the quantity of things that we have. We know there are so many people throughout the world for whom even one of these things would be a tremendous blessing...but how to get it to them?

The Golden Exchange was born of many hours spent searching the internet and making phone calls, trying to figure out who could use my family's extras. I kept wishing that the information I was slowly gathering was all available in one spot...until it occurred to me that maybe I should create that spot!

A dear friend, now a Carmelite sister, once said that if I have something extra that someone else needs, it doesn't even really belong to me...it belongs to them. And another dear Friend has said that whatever we do for one of the least of His brethren, we do for Him :) So for love of Him and of all those in need...