We look forward to welcoming you!

Lord & Tailor Thrift Shop hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. The shop is closed when the Governor Wentworth Regional School District is cancelled or has an early dismissal due to weather.

The Shop provides high quality clothing at reduced prices, and for those in special need for free. All proceeds are used to serve others. Lord & Tailor is staffed entirely by volunteers and is a Christian Ministry of All Saints housed in our Outreach Center at 264 South Main Street.

O God you are Lord and Tailor of all creation as we thank you for your continued blessing:

Bless this ministry and those we serve, Bless our giving and receiving, Bless our words and conversation,
Bless our hearts and our hands, Bless our sorting and our selling, Bless our coming and our going, Bless all who enter and depart, Bless this place, your peace impart. Amen.

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS

The history of All Saints’ notes that in 1928 seven ladies in Wolfeboro organized the Women’s Auxiliary: Maude Sanborn, Agnes Shannon, Theodora (“Theo”) Witten, Katharine Libby, Winifred Lawrence, Louisa Auderer, and Lois Belle Hildreth. These ladies opened a thrift shop on Railroad Avenue to raise money for missionary projects, a precursor of our Lord & Tailor ministry almost 100 years ago.

 The following is part of an interview with Dede McBeth by Caroline Merrill from the Oral History of All Saints’ Episcopal Church project in 2001: “I started the [Lord & Tailor] thrift shop with a very dear friend, Malsie Healey….the Vestry approved the idea and on February 18, 1982 the Lord & Tailor Thrift Shop opened. It was wonderful; Adel Leone was our secretary and bookkeeper, which worked out great because she did such a good job. The Shop has really grown a great deal and has really gone along beautifully ever since. At first, we used to have people bring in clothes and we’d tell them how much we could get for them and we took them on consignment. That was a bit of work! Then we really did very, very well and we reached the point where we didn’t want to pay people for their clothes. So they brought things in and gave us things. And we have just grown and grown and grown. It turned out to be very worthwhile.”  *Note: In 1999 the Lord & Tailor Shop raised over $12,000.