This holiday season, Homewood’s Community Grief Support (CGS) is giving family and friends the opportunity to celebrate the lives of lost loved ones. At at time when so many are facing grief due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other significant losses, Homewood and greater Birmingham can come together in hope and healing.
The Tree of Lights memorial will shine brightly on the corner of Oxmoor Road and Central Ave in Homewood’s Central Park. Each light of the 12-foot holiday tree will honor those we have loved and lost.
Sponsorships can be purchased during November and December.
Memorial Options:
Illuminate one light on the Tree of Lights
Handmade memorial luminary – a beautiful pottery luminary by Alabama artist Lisa Bunting Howard
A memorial ornament – a personalized, beautiful, antique gold ornament with velvet ribbon calligraphed by Amber Rosenberg of Party Pickup
Donation Information:
Donate $25: Illuminates one light on the Tree of Lights memorial
A card will be sent to up to 3 addresses to the friends/families of the honored loved one.
Donate $75: Receives a handmade memorial luminary to light in your home in remembrance of your lost loved one
Illuminates one light on the Tree of Lights memorial
A card will be sent to up to 3 addresses to the friends/families of the honored loved ones.
Donate $100: Receives a beautiful, antique-gold memorial ornament with velvet ribbon, calligraphed with loved one’s name
Illuminates one light on the Tree of Lights memorial
A card will be sent to up to 3 addresses to the friends/families of the honored loved one
Pickup of the ornaments and luminaries will be at the Trinity United Methodist Church Portico (1400 Oxmoor Road, Homewood, AL, 35209) on Monday, November 22 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and again on Monday, December 13 from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Luminaries and ornaments will not be shipped to avoid breakage. Memorial cards will be mailed to the addresses listed in the 3 boxes. If you are the donor and would like to have a card mailed to your home, please include your name and address as one of the 3 addresses at the bottom.
CLICK HERE FOR DONATION FORM AND MEMORIAL NOTIFICATION CARDS
Presented by founding sponsor: Alabama Power.
All proceeds go to provide completely free: individual, couples and family grief counseling; loss-specific grief support groups; and community grief education programs such as “Hope for the Holidays” sessions for those who are facing their first holiday after a loss. For more information about the Tree of Lights or Hope for the Holidays, please call CGS at 205/870-8667
