Believe Tree applications due soon

By Sandy Morris

The 2020 Believe Tree for Teens applications are now available for Shackelford County junior high and high school students. 

The Albany Ministerial Alliance is the sponsor for the tree which provides gift assistance for local teens. 

Applications and wish lists are available at ResourceCare in Albany or from any church in the Ministerial Alliance. 

Alliance members are also working with the junior high and high school school officials and counselors in Albany and Moran to identify students who may need gifts for Christmas. 

The application requires basic information on a parent and the child/children in the home. 

The wish list is to be completed for each child in the home who is enrolled in either junior high or high school in Albany or Moran. 

Questions on the wish list ask for the teen’s favorite things, sizes they wear, something they’ve waited for all year and something they want, need, will wear, and will read. 

Alliance secretary Tisha Wilkins reminds parents not to be disappointed if the gifts they receive aren’t an exact match. 

“Please remember these are suggestions,” said Wilkins. “You may or may not receive these exact items.”

All applications and wish lists are due back to Wilkins at the Feed Store by Friday, Nov. 20. to allow enough time to make and distribute the wish lists on the “Believe Trees for Teens.” 

People wishing to sponsor a teen can select a name from a tree, purchase gifts, and return them to Wilkins at The Feed Store.

“Gifts will need to be returned to me, unwrapped, with a gift receipt, if possible,” said Wilkins. 

Pickup for the gifts will be at The Feed Store in Albany on Tuesday, Dec. 15 and Thursday, Dec. 17, with times to be announced at a later date.