Believe Tree requests due Friday

By Sandy Morris

The 2020 Believe Tree for Teens applications are due at The Feed Store this Friday, Nov. 20.

The Albany Ministerial Alliance is the sponsor for the tree which provides gift assistance for Shackelford County junior high and high school students.

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

The Ministerial Alliance also is working with the junior high and high school 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. 

Parents completing the applications are reminded that they are providing a list of suggestions, and their teen may not get exactly everything on their wish list. 

Tisha Wilkins, Ministerial Alliance secretary, said the Friday, Nov. 20 due date gives her time to get the wish lists organized and distributed to the “Believe Trees” around town. 

“Once the names are on a tree, people wishing to sponsor a teen can select a name from a tree, purchase gifts, and return them to me at The Feed Store,” Wilkins said. “Gifts will need to be returned to me, unwrapped, with a gift receipt, if possible.”

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.