We met Deidra Branyon at our first wrapping party back in June. After helping us wrap around 100 presents that day, Deidra asked her church, Coastal Community Church, if they could sponsor the month of September birthdays for foster children. Thankfully, they agreed. So we got to work and provided their congregation with a giving tree of foster children.
A month later, we headed back to Coastal Community Church to pick up the presents and we were amazed to see the biggest haul of presents we’ve seen so far! There were 42 children with birthdays in September and it was our biggest birthday month yet. The care that each person took in picking out gifts was evident in the wrapping paper, gift bags and beautiful birthday cards they personally wrote.
The ladies in the picture, from left Deidra Branyon, Amy Mark, me (Steffi Green) and Morgan Verdery, coordinated all the present giving with their church and all managed it with little ones in tow! On behalf of Birthdays For All, I’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone from Coastal Community Church who did such an amazing job with the presents.
September is the first month of birthdays that will be fully sponsored by an organization. I am so excited that the Mount Pleasant LDS church has agreed to do October!
If you, or an organization you’re involved with, want to learn more about sponsoring foster children’s birthday please e-mail steffi@birthdaysforall.org
