Pay It Forward: Tricia Light of Montgomery
We are recognizing another unsung hero in the community and Tricia Light of Montgomery is one of those people.
She is the Vance Law Firm’s pay it forward honoree this week.
We’re told Tricia Light carries a positive, caring spirit with her in all she does regardless of the challenges life can send your way.
If there is something she can help with then she will.
Here’s how she is paying it forward.
Light has worked the last 25 years as the Payroll Department at Health Services, Inc., a non profit organization dedicated to helping the underserved, uninsured and homeless in Montgomery.
She sometimes works weekends just to make sure all the deadlines are met.
Not only that, she is also involved in her church with prayer groups and volunteering, as well as taking care of her special needs sister.
She is considered a friend to anyone who crosses her path.
“Tricia welcomed me well I moved here a year ago and started working with her. She was quick to be a quick connection. She gave me the lay of the land here in Alabama. She is very kind, very welcoming and getting to know her and all the things she does in the community in the church, the prayer groups and actually volunteering doing the taxes for the church and giving to the community and of course the connection she has of taken care of her sister, Tommie girl,” Carmen Hilmes who nominated Light.
“I love her. She takes care of me and I don’t want nothing to happen to her just like the church,” said Tommie Prestwood, Light’s sister.
For all she does in the community and beyond, Stewart Vance of the Vance Law Firm is paying it forward to her with a $333 check in her name.
“Not something that I ever thought about, just something that you do. I just told my pastor the song keeps going through my head based on the Bible study today, that I keep doing the song in my head. You’re the only Bible some people are going to read so I hope that I stand for that myself,” said Light.
“Her heart is big and you can see it. She’s the one who does the ordinary things in life that makes extraordinary blessings and I feel blessed to be one of those,” said Hilmes.
