Cookies With Santa, an event created to benefit local foster care families, will take place on Saturday at Borrowed Hearts. Each attendee is asked to donate a new toy. The next day, foster families will be invited to visit Borrowed Hearts and let their kids choose from the donations.
“My vision for this event is to be able to let families come together and help spread a little Christmas joy this season. My hope is to help be the hands and feet of Jesus to as many people as I can,” said event host Kendall Terry. “I am really excited about this.”
Since the toy serves as a ticket into the event, Terry asks that the toy is new because it will be used as a gift. Families can come meet Santa, decorate cookies, and support a wonderful cause. The event will start at 10 a.m. and will end at noon.
Terry is proud to partner with an organization like this one. When Borrowed Hearts was founded by Sarah Gough in Evansville, Ind., in 2015, Sarah and her husband were foster parents and had started swapping clothes with other foster families out of tubs and bins in their garage.
They quickly outgrew their garage but still had a strong urge to help other foster families. The Borrowed Hearts Foundation provides clothing and hygiene items to children in foster care at absolutely no cost. Borrowed Hearts serves numerous counties in Indiana and has now crossed the bridge to Owensboro, to hopefully help impact more families in the Western Kentucky area.
On Dec. 22, foster families from all across Owensboro will come to Borrowed Hearts to pick up toys. This is the first year for the event, but Terry hopes to see it continue as an annual event.
“We want to help make a kids’ Christmas a little brighter. We are encouraging people to come donate a toy,” Terry said.
Borrowed Hearts is located at 1705 E. 2nd Street. For questions or donations, contact Kendall Terry or Borrowed Hearts’ Facebook page.
