Caring Hearts Lending Closet

02/07/2026

PENDING PICKUP

Powered Stair Climber
Email if interested chlendingcloset@gmail.com

01/17/2026

Our usual hours are Wednesday 10-11 am and Saturday 8-9:30 am.

We are located at The Blue Church 940 Baltimore Pike in Springfield. Please go to the first set of blue doors facing the driveway. We are inside and downstairs.

Pickup Guidelines:

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If you choose to come in during open hours without completing the form above, we cannot guarantee we can give you an item in stock.

Donation Guidelines:

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If you choose to come in during open hours without completing the form above, we cannot guaratntee the ability to receive your donation that day.

Donations Request Form

01/11/2026

No Longer Available!!

Available from the donor: q6 Edge Power Wheelchair that is in excellent condition. The battery no longer holds a charge. The chair is 375 lb so you need to be equipped with a van for a power chair. Located in Drexel Hill. Serious Inquiries only.

Comments will NOT be monitored or replied to!

01/11/2026

Power scooter available (Golden LiteRider) direct from the donor. You must contact the donor for details and to arrange pickup. There are 2 batteries. It hasn’t been used in a while, but it was fully functional.

kattee17@juno.com

Comments will NOT be monitored or replied to.

01/10/2026

Quickie chair. Solid frame. Needs new back (was a velcro one on there previously). Available today at the church. 484-463-7603

01/06/2026

The following items are available from a client:

2. Bariatric electric wheelchair

PLEASE CONTACT Gary at disablequip@gmail.com if interested.

Comments will not be monitored. PIctures can be requested from the donor.

12/20/2025

We will be closed 12/21-12/30
Merry Christmas!

12/13/2025

We will be closed December 13. Please do not drop off! Email chlendingcloset@gmail.com
For an appointment. Thanks!!

11/26/2025

Time change today only 9-10am NO Dropoffs!!
Thanks

11/26/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GBBs1P9Eu/?mibextid=wwXIfr

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."
Let this story reach more hearts....
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By Mary Nelson

11/25/2025

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11/22/2025

Time change for Wednesday Nov 26! No Drop Offs!