FLORIDA—About 20 members of the Florida West and Georgia South congregations of the Philadelphia Church of God volunteered for their second-annual yard sale fundraiser on July 17 in Tallahassee.

Before dawn, the set-up crew erected a canopy tent and tables. Waves of shoppers scoured the sale, buying everything from books to power tools to clothes to glassware.

“So many donated a wide variety of items for the sale,” Florida South deacon Clay Smedley said. “One participant asked the local waste collection site to set aside good items people in the area discarded, and these items really boosted the sale.”

Thunderstorms began to form early in the day, but these did not affect the sale until the afternoon, when customers typically thin out and sales drop off. By then, the afternoon shower was a relief from the heat.

By the end of the day, the volunteers had raised more than $2,100 for donation to the work of the Philadelphia Church of God at headquarters.