Trinity Partners with Bloom
Closet This Christmas
By Samantha DePriest
Last month Trinity Christian School connected with local non-profit Bloom Closet about how to help during the Christmas season. Our little lions at our TCS - GO Church location decorated paper angels and hung them on a Christmas tree in the lobby of the Early Learning building. At their Thanksgiving program before break, families were encouraged to choose a paper angel off the tree that had a child’s name and wish list item on the back. Families shopped for Christmas gifts and delivered them this week..
At the Bloom Closet in Fayetteville, foster children receive clothing, toys, and other items - all at no cost. The Bloom Closet Express, a traveling boutique, reachers foster children all over the state of Georgia. It was parked outside of our TCS - GO Church campus so families could learn how children in the foster care system could shop to new items. The Bloom Closet provides clothing, toys, and other items to more than 5,000 foster children right here in our state. The Bloom Closet webpage has more information about this wonderful ministry, volunteer opportunities, and ways to make a donations.
Jill Cook, Community Engagement Specialist with Bloom Closet and TCS Mom, shares, “The impact the Angel Tree makes in the lives of these foster children is immeasurable.” She loved showing how God has blessed the Bloom Closet Express as it was full of items for children to shop in. Jill also shared that, “The gifts are given to the Bloom foster children at the Bloom holiday party and under the tree on Christmas morning. Bloom’s foster children come from situations of neglect, abandonment, and other tragic circumstances. For most, this will be their first year celebrating the holidays with a new foster family. With your help, we can make each and every Christmas a very special memory for the children in Bloom’s care.“
Pictured left to right: Siblings Greta and Jack Heiling with Tanner and Tyler Wade with gifts they brought in for the Angel Tree.
