Our Mission:
- To provide a substitute home for dependent and neglected children, and
- To restore the broken lives of children and families.
Change for Children
Contact us to learn how you can be involved in our annual campaign! MORE...
Shopping List
If your congregation collects food and other grocery items for our cottages, here's a list of things we need at this time: - Canned Chicken
- Cream of Chicken
- Cereal
- Tea (reg. and decaf.)
- Juice
- Pancake Mix
- Salad Dressing
Volunteerism
We need volunteers to help in these specific areas: - Mentoring a child
- Painting
- Farm work
- Mowing
- Filing/Clerical work
Contact Arvil Hill for more information.
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Our Ministry:
Since 1955, we've provided loving, Christian homes for children whose parents cannot care for them because of death, separation, abandonment, illness or other reasons.
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Our Means:
Children's Homes is 100% privately supported, and does not accept government boarding payments. Funding comes from donations from churches, individuals, businesses, groups and foundations.
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Over the years, many wonderful people and organizations have found creative ways to partner with us in the ministry of saving the lives of children. We are always open to considering new ideas and efforts to help further the cause of caring for neglected kids, and we are proud of the opportunities and programs already in place. If you are interested in joining one of these ongoing efforts, please contact our Public Relations Department. Here are a few opportunities for you to consider: - FOOD RUN: We send a box truck out once each week on a selected route. Churches that participate in our Food Run collect food items at the building, and on the day of their appointed route, our truck comes by and picks up the food items collected. These items go into our Food Room at Children's Homes, and the houseparents shop at the Food Room twice a week to provide free food items for the children in their cottages. Contact us to find out if a church in your area participates in the Food Run, or to receive more information about the program.
- HELPING HANDS: Participants in Helping Hands receive "needs lists" from a specific cottage. Working through our Public Relations Department, groups or individuals involved in Helping Hands take the needs lists and shop for the cottage needs. Typically, Helping Hands provides items like towels, dishtowels, small kitchen appliances, utensils, bedding, decorative items, lawn and garden needs, etc.
- MENTORING: Some volunteers within driving distance of our main campus serve as mentors to the children in care at Children's Homes. Potential mentors undergo pre-screenings that include thorough background checks, fingerprinting and more. Mentors provide another layer of care for the children of Children's Homes. To learn more, contact the Public Relations Department.
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Are You a Former Resident?
We try our best to keep up with our former residents of Children's Homes, but it's not always easy! There have been many children who have lived at Children's Homes over the last 53 years, and try as we might, we just haven't stayed in contact with all of them. If you're a former resident of Children's Homes, we'd love to hear from you. Please follow the link below to update us on what you've been up to since you left our care. Let us know whatever you'd like to share with us. We want to know how you're doing -- we care about you! Click here to update us...
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Our Methods:
We implement a multifaceted program designed to help each child overcome his or her own unique issues. For specifics, check the Programs & Services menu at the top of this page.
From the CEO
As always, welcome to Children's Homes! Although you're visiting our online home, we hope you'll like what you see, and that you'll find what you're looking for. Just as we hope your visit to our actual campus is a pleasant one, we have similar goals for your online experience with us. In the weeks to come, we'll unveil additions to this website that we believe will make childrenshomes.org a site you can use to advance our ministry in a number of ways. Please be sure to note our newest and most significant addition: Online giving. There is a link at the top of each page that will help you make a gift to Children's Homes via your debit card, credit card or PayPal account. You'll also find a great many new features, as well as up-to-date information, and we hope these updates are useful to you as you help us champion the cause of children in need. As you click through our new site, please consider carefully how you might partner with us -- in person or online -- as we go about our work of turning children back into the blessings God intended them to be. -- Micah Brinkley Executive Director & CEO
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