January 2026 Newsletter

We Help Families Start Over

Hello New Life Warehouse Friends! Happy New Year! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your friends and family. We took a much needed break over Christmas to rest and celebrate the birth of Jesus. Now we are ready to start serving again! If one of your New Year's resolutions is to volunteer more, then you're in the right place! We would love to help you find a way to serve with us. You'll find out very quickly that it can be a tremendous blessing in your own life when you help others. Come join us at NLW and we'll get you plugged in. Just know that once you start you won't want to leave.

A Year in Review

It was an incredibly busy and fulfilling year at New Life Warehouse. The numbers don't even begin to tell the story. We served 800 families in 2025! We delivered 1,679 beds, gave 1,713 Bibles to the families we served, and we completed 538 whole home deliveries. That means 538 of the families we served had absolutely no furniture or kitchen items when we arrived. In December alone we served 76 families, and we were closed for two weeks that month! The demand is growing and thanks to you, we are still able to meet this critical need.

Among those 800 families were 279 families who were previously homeless or severely impoverished, 133 Domestic Violence Survivors, 96 Hurricane Victims, 100 Foster Families, 70 Refugees/Migrants, 80 Reunifications, 23 Veterans, 11 Aged out Teens, and 8 Trafficking Survivors.

The Furnish Together coalition introduces a standard definition of furniture poverty as:

The inability to access, afford, or maintain essential household furniture and goods for a

functional, safe, and healthy home. The numbers we served match the statistics at a national level. In the Spring of 2025, A Wider Circle engaged a survey research company who reached over 1,000 individuals. Some of the results of the survey are as follows:

At the current point in time, 32% of people across the United States are experiencing furniture poverty; that is, they are unable to access, afford, or maintain one or more essential household furniture goods.

2 in 10 households do not have enough beds for everyone to sleep on.
3 in 10 do not have a couch to sit on or a dresser to store clothing in.
4 in 10 are missing more than one critical item for a functional, safe, and healthy home

We consider it a privilege to be able to help reverse this situation for families in our community, helping to break the cycle of poverty and provide dignity and hope to the underserved.

Profession of Faith

NLW Profession of Faith

We believe in one God- Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who created all people in His image with infinite worth and purpose.

We believe that Jesus Christ is our Savior and redeemer, who came to proclaim good news to the poor, freedom to the oppressed and healing for the broken hearted. Through His death and resurrection, He offers a new life, hope and restoration.

We believe that the church is called to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world, loving our neighbors, caring for the vulnerable and building up those who are weary and in need.

We believe that every family matters to God, and that no one is beyond His grace. Homelessness does not define a person, God’s love does. In Christ, all things can be made new.

We believe that God calls us to justice and mercy (Micah 6:8), to offer shelter to the homeless (Isaiah 58:7) and to bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2) in the unity of the Body of Christ.

We commit ourselves to walk with families as they transition from crisis to stability, to create spaces of dignity and hope and to proclaim by word and deed that Jesus is Lord over every home and every heart.

We do this in faith, empowered by the Holy Spirit, for the glory of God.

Your Donations Transform Lives

On a Saturday in December, Westtown church member Dale Morgan stopped by the warehouse to donate some of her used furniture. She dropped off a beautiful striped couch she had owned for years but was no longer using. Less than 48 hours later, it had already been delivered to a local family in need. When you donate items to New Life Warehouse, beautiful things happen. You are helping the environment because items aren't going to the landfill, and more importantly, you're caring for families right here in our own city that just need help getting started again. Your donated sheets and pillows help make sure children have a comfortable way to sleep at night. Your donated dishes and pots and pans help ensure that a single mom can cook for her family. Your donated tables and chairs allow a family to have a proper place to share a meal. Please continue to spread the word that NLW is a great place to donate household goods and furniture. Together we can help Families Start Over.

Volunteers in Action - 2025

Do you ever wonder how New Life Warehouse serves so many families each year with only one full time employee and two part-time employees? It's because we have literally hundreds of volunteers who faithfully serve day in and day out to make sure we provide the best care we possibly can to our families. In 2025 our volunteers logged over 16,500 hours. That's amazing!! On average, there are 15-20 volunteers in the warehouse every day. On a typical delivery Saturday, 80-100 people show up to help deliver. Churches, Rotary Clubs and other organizations volunteer regularly with NLW.

The NLW family is made up of many parts. Some volunteers sort donations, some repair furniture, some deliver on Saturdays, some call our clients and work with them closely to find out what their exact needs are, and others deliver during the week. Still others write newsletters and coordinate volunteer activities, write thank you notes to donors, and on and on. There are many ways to serve at NLW. If you would like to become more involved visit our website for opportunities to serve.

We are so grateful for our NLW volunteers - they are like family to us and they are a blessing to us and our families.

Become a Monthly Donor

Did you know New Life Warehouse purchases items each month to supplement the donated furniture and household goods we receive, in order to make sure each family gets what they need to start over? Sometimes we don't have enough pots and pans, pillows, or bedding, so we purchase items to help our families. If you become a monthly partner, you will be helping local families who are transitioning out of homelessness to reduce the cycle of poverty.