South Jersey pastor grew small food pantry into thriving enterprise to help those in poverty
“‘People tell me all the time I don’t think normally,’ said Trappier, 60. ‘That I see life differently: I see the hurt, the loneliness and I can identify with it. So I try to help.’
Her efforts are working.
Trappier, a former insurance claims adjuster who grew up abused and lived as a hungry and homeless single mother, reinvented her life to become a benevolent force of nature in Burlington County.
She grew Beacon of Hope from a tiny food pantry in her Hainesport home that fed 80 people to a dynamic social outreach enterprise that offers food to 7,000 clients a month in a storefront in downtown Mount Holly. In addition, she provides clothes, emergency housing, mortgage and rental assistance, and emergency transportation.”