State of the Program
Merry
Christmas! As we come upon this glorious season, I look around
at all the gifts we are blessed to give our families this year.
From families learning money management skills to families graduating
into sustainable independence. The most wonderful gift is watching
the children of our program flourish in the stability their families
have found in and after our program.
This year, we started our "From Your Family to Our Family"
fundraising campaign. It is a great time to aid in our mission
of empowering families toward sustainable independence. Because
of your support, parents in our program will be able to go to work
and continue saving toward graduation. Your donations provided
tuition for day care and full-day camp at the YMCA for all the school
age children in our program.
Wondering just how your donation can help? A donation as small
as $60 provides a week of after school care to allow a parent
to work full time. $30 provides fuel to get to work.
Click here to see other ways you can help.
Kids Get
Involved
Recently, a few children, most about 8 years old, asked what they
could give to our families. WOW! At such a young age,
these children already have a heart for serving others. Building that
within a child can be very easy. One simple idea for engaging
children or youth in giving might be to hang a Christmas stocking and
have a family challenge to fill it with change to use to
donate. Another would be to wrap a gift with money in it and
having them decide how they would like to use it to help someone they
don't already know. Of course, there are many other ideas, and
we would love for you to share them with us.
While we do hope you will remember us in your holiday and year-end
giving, we also want to say thank you for your support each and
everyday. If you are interested in getting more involved with
Family Promise of Forsyth County in 2018, we welcome you to join us
for one of our upcoming Volunteer Orientations. Whether you are
affiliated with one of our host or support churches or not, you can
volunteer in a wide variety of ways such as working directly with our
families or serving on a committee. We hope you will join us in
empowering many more families toward sustainable independence in the
new year!
Finally, on behalf of our staff, board and especially our families, I
want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
May God Bless You,
Tina
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