In the News ... "Trinity finds new ways to give back amid the pandemic"

Photo Courtesy Of Lauren Friday/Trinity School

• Through Operation Bless the Children

By Jacy Lewis, Reporter/Photographer
• Midland Reporter-Telegram

MIDLAND, TEXAS - Trinity School students and faculty have found different ways to give back to the community during the pandemic.

This is the 16th year for Operation Bless the Children – families fill up backpacks for Hope Invasion ministry that distributes the bags to students in Mexico. First-grade teacher Terry Miller organizes the initiative every year, and her students help load backpacks for travel.

Upper School students created canvases for hospice patients, hosted a clothing and duffel bag drive for Fostering Restoration and a toy drive for Centers for Children and Families.

Kobi Lincoln, director of institutional advancement, said the student council will be donating $500 in gift cards to housekeeping staff at Midland Memorial Hospital. Impact Club held a drive for the Field’s Edge; the student group that collected the most toiletries would win a no-uniform day.

“Many of the things we usually do, like going to sing at the soup kitchen or visiting the nursing homes to sing Christmas carols, aren’t happening this year,” she said. “The Operation Bless the Children is something we do every year, but we have shifted our focus more to drives or through letter writing because in-person volunteering is so limited right now.”

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