Tucked into Chilliwack at 45774 Kipp Avenue, the MCC Thrift Shop is one of the Fraser Valley’s stops in the Mennonite Central Committee’s long running network of secondhand stores. The shop takes in gently used clothing and household goods from local donors and resells them at prices well below retail, giving Chilliwack shoppers an eco-friendly way to furnish a home or refresh a wardrobe while keeping usable items out of the landfill. Rather than a single category focus, the store leans on whatever the community donates that week, so the sales floor tends to hold a rotating mix of clothing, housewares, and other everyday finds rather than a fixed inventory list.
What sets this location apart from a typical secondhand store is where the money goes. MCC describes its approach as shopping with a heart and a conscience, and proceeds from sales at the Kipp Avenue store flow into MCC’s relief, development, and peace programs that operate both locally and internationally. A shopper picking up a jacket or a set of dishes here is, in a small way, also funding aid work well beyond Chilliwack, which is a different value proposition than a straightforward for-profit resale shop.
The store keeps a six day shopping week, open Monday through Saturday from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, and closed on Sundays. Shoppers planning a visit around a holiday should note the store has posted specific seasonal closures in the past, so calling ahead around long weekends is a reasonable precaution. The Kipp Avenue address sits within reach of central Chilliwack, making it a convenient stop for residents already running errands nearby.
Volunteers make up a meaningful part of how the shop operates day to day, and MCC actively recruits community members to help sort donations, staff the floor, and keep the store running. For volunteers, the pitch is about more than filling hours: MCC frames the experience as a chance to build a resume, serve with a purpose, and develop friendships, which has made the Chilliwack location as much a community gathering point as a retail store. That volunteer culture, layered on top of the donation-driven inventory, gives the shop a genuinely local, grassroots feel even though it belongs to a much larger international organization.
For anyone in Chilliwack looking to donate no-longer-needed items, the store accepts drop offs during its posted hours, keeping the intake side of the operation as active as the sales floor. Between the rotating secondhand inventory, the modest prices, and the fact that every purchase supports MCC’s broader humanitarian mission, the Kipp Avenue shop functions as both a practical shopping destination and a low key way to give back. In short, the Chilliwack MCC Thrift Shop is a Kipp Avenue secondhand store where affordable clothing and household finds double as support for Mennonite Central Committee’s local and global relief work.
