MEGA Garage Sale

This year, this event raised over $58,000 for local and global missions!!!

Written by: Nicole Waite, President of Haiti Scholars


How do you even start organizing such a feat? Debbie Friend, the organizer! She would be embarrassed if I even mentioned her name, but it is a must!


How do you get the treasures to sell? I did refer to it as stuff, but was quickly corrected; they are treasures. The local community donated their treasures that they no longer needed. That is an unimaginable amount of treasures donated to raise $58,000.  (Read complete article HERE.)

Mega Garage Sale 2026 Recap

Written By: DOn Friend

Wow! Just Wow! I am so amazed by this event and by how OSLC and the Naperville Community come together to impact the lives of so many whom we will never know. 


Quality donations and generous volunteers help to pull off something so amazing. I can only imagine how many exhausted volunteers there are and how many seeds of faith were sown over the last 11 days. There is an old adage that says “many hands make light the work”. This is so true with this event. Over 200 volunteers amassed more than 4,500 donated work hours, with OSLC congregational members providing over half of those hours. 


Our youthful visitors from Slovakia provided much-needed muscle for cleanup on Saturday. It definitely takes a team to pull off this event, and the funds received will be distributed 100% (after expenses) to our Outreach Missions. 


What is amazing is that we keep surpassing the previous sales. In 2025, we grossed $54,139, while this year, 2026, we grossed $58,343! 


So to all of those who donated treasures, worked on setup, donation acceptance, the sale days, and cleanup, words cannot say THANK YOU loud enough!

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