Family Promise of Greater Wichita is excited to welcome Trista Wilson as the newest addition to the staff team as Program Coordinator! 

Trista is a familiar face in the FPGW community, having served as a Day House volunteer for several years and as an important community advocate for the Family Promise mission. You may even recognize her as the author of Sometimes Brave, a book that helped shed light on the issue of family homelessness and supported FPGW through its sales last year.

As a transplant to the Wichita community four years ago, Trista sought a place to engage as a volunteer. She found Family Promise and loved the mission and atmosphere of this smaller organization that was focused on families. Over the next few years, she continued to serve and watch the mission grow until an opening on the staff team was a perfect fit for her next step. 

Since stepping into her new role as Program Coordinator, Trista has especially enjoyed getting to know the FPGW network of congregational volunteer coordinators through chats over coffee. As a former Special Education teacher, she brings a unique perspective that is invaluable to her work with volunteers, coordinators, families, and the FPGW community as a whole. She continues to dive deeper into the Family Promise mission and thinks it’s amazing how this organization puts people right where they need to be, “doing what they love to do.”

Trista loves working in the middle of the Day House and the way her position allows her to get to know guest families. One of her favorite things about her job so far is seeing how the everyday things – the little things that may not seem that exciting or impactful – affect the bigger picture and make a difference for families.

FPGW Executive Director Dawn Epp was thrilled to have Trista Wilson join the staff team at the Day House. “It was evident in talking to Trista that she would fit right into our culture and would be a tremendous asset to guests and volunteers at Family Promise. This has proven true in her short time on staff!”

Trista loves enjoying the Wichita community and local spots when she’s not hanging out at home with her pets, including the six chickens she acquired during the pandemic. She finds her happy place reading, drinking iced coffee, and talking to her adult children who live in her home state of New York. 

Welcome, Trista, to the FPGW team!