Team Woods Supports Edwardsville Affordable Christmas

Edwardsville, IL — Every year in December, Mission: St. Louis hosts Affordable Christmas events at several sites around the St. Louis area. The event empowers low-income families to provide a fun Christmas for their children.  This year, Woods Basement Systems employees and their families collected new toys and monetary donations to help stock the Edwardsville Affordable Christmas store with enough new toys, games, and clothes for over 160 children.

On Saturday, December 8, Trailhead Church hosted more than sixty Edwardsville area families for Affordable Christmas at Newsong Fellowship in Edwardsville. Members of Trailhead Church and other sponsors donated hundreds of brand new toys, clothes, and made monetary donations (used to purchase gifts), which parents could then purchase as Christmas gifts at approximately one-tenth of the original retail value.

Volunteers provided free childcare and activities while parents secretly shopped for gifts.  Others served as personal shoppers, provided free gift wrapping, and cooked breakfast for all of the shoppers and volunteers.  Members of Newsong Fellowship even offered family portraits and prints at no charge.

For more information about Affordable Christmas and to find how you can contribute next year, contact Jen Harsy at Trailhead Church with any questions or visit MissionSTL.org.