Joshua Project Launches 2025 Coats for Kids Program

SCHOHARIE COUNTY — Joshua Project President Pat Costello said that the program will run out of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Middleburgh. There are many "gently-used, clean" and new coats available to the public in "many different sizes." 

This includes for infants and toddlers all the way up to full sizes for adults. Last year the Project gave out more than 150 coats. The program is entirely free and available to anyone who is in need of a coat. Fenimore Asset Management and the Knights of Columbus helped cover almost all of the cost of the new coats. 

The coats are available from 5:00pm-7:00pm on Oct. 28, 29, and 30 and Nov. 6 and 7, as well as Nov. 8 from 9am to noon. 

There are volunteers to help members of the public to find anything they need, said Costello, no questions asked and no applications. "None of that stuff matters to us. The only thing that matters to us is that you need a coat and we have it and you can have it," he said.

Each year there are new volunteers who “like helping” with anything, large and small, for the Project. Anyone interested in volunteering can sign up in any capacity, should reach out to the Joshua Project on their website.

The applications for Christmas for Kids and for Thanksgiving baskets are now open on the group’s website www.joshuaschoharie.org.

The building project on Route 145 between Middleburgh to Cobleskill is in the home stretch, said Costello and exciting updates are to come. We will cover the progress in future editions.