LEWISTON — Hours after the Sun Journal published a story about Hope Haven Gospel Mission’s desperate plea for help with its Christmas toy drive, readers flooded Hope Haven with toys, gifts and more than $17,000 in cash — far more than the $1,000 organizers had hoped for.

The mission now not only has enough to give presents to every one of the 200 children on its 2011 list, including the 61 who had been at risk of getting nothing, but it has enough to set aside for next year.