Owner John LeMay puts lettering on the window of Trestle Side Antiques in downtown Ringgold.
Debbie Fleming braids men’s ties into a chair seat Tuesday at Trestle Side Antiques. Her business, God Oddities Off the Wall Decor, is located inside the Ringgold antiques mall. She uses items that others have discarded to create her artwork.
Debbie Fleming uses found objects to make artwork.
Trestle Side Antiques is located in downtown Ringgold.The sign says antiques, but there’s ministry going on behind the doors at Trestle Side Antiques.
It’s not the pulpit-expounding kind; it’s the quiet, unobtrusive kind.
John and Andrea May, owners of the Ringgold, Ga., antiques store, use part of their sales to support their nonprofit ministry, Thy Kingdom Come Inc. Memorial. Their primary focus is the purchase of land for a baby cemetery where, John May says, they would be able to help parents who are not able to bury their stillborn children or erect a headstone for a dead child.
The idea began with Andrea, who lost two babies at birth, he says.
“It’s been on her heart to start this cemetery,” he says. “She believes every baby deserves a burial, a name.”