Winter might not seem like yard sale season, but if you can't get outside for a bargain, you can still find deals inside at the Ruhl's Church 22nd annual indoor yard sale. The event will be held in the church fellowship hall, 4810 Elizabethtown Road, Manheim, from 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 5.

"We have 32 stands selling all varieties of items," said Kris Gray, one of the event organizers. "Friends and family of church members and people from the community have stands. Some people have had a stand for years."

Along with yard sale stands, the event will feature a food stand serving egg sandwiches, homemade chicken corn noodle soup, hot dogs, beef barbecue sandwiches, baked goods and drinks.

New this year, there will be a table of new and used Bibles and devotional books for people of all ages offered free of charge. "We have done a table like that at our God's Clothing Closet event in August in the past, but we thought this might be a nice way to get devotional material into people's hands if we added it to our yard sale," Gray explained.

The yard sale is a fundraiser for the missions and activities of the Sunshine Sunday school class. The class organizes and distributes food boxes for local families in need at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter and supports the church's participation in filling shoeboxes for Samaritan's Purse at Christmas. The class also hosts a banquet for senior citizens and plans to donate some of the proceeds to local ministries.

In addition to supporting the church, the yard sale serves another purpose, said Barb Dunmire, one of the event organizers. "It's a chance to reach out to the community," she stated. "I personally really like to talk to the people who come out year after year. I like the relationships you build with people you don't see from one yard sale to the next. It's nice to chat and catch up."

She emphasized that the event is handicapped-accessible and open no matter how chilly the weather is outside. "It's a really convenient way to go to a bunch of yard sales all in one place, rather than having to go to individual houses," she said. "People are itching to get out and get their yard sale fix, and they can do that here."

Neither pets nor smoking is permitted inside the building. Masks are optional. For more information, visit https://ruhlschurch.org or call 717-665-3400.