May is Foster Care Awareness Month

Praise the Lord for families who will make the daily sacrifice to open their homes and receive the little ones who have no one. You are showing them the love of Christ by receiving them into your home and caring for them. Defend the Orphans ministry wants to honor such families. We are joining Alabama Mentor Network and helping them with a picnic in May to show appreciation for the foster families in their program. For our part, we will help serve the food and drinks and we also want to present each family with a gift bag. We are asking for anyone who wants to help show appreciation to the foster parents to help by donating some type of item that will help fill the gift bags. Right now we are planning on doing 30 gift bags with such items as homemade bread, cookies, prepackaged cookies, crackers, and anything else you or your work place may want to donate. Other items could include insulated coffee/drink cups, sun visors, magnetized note pads to put on refrigerator, pens, Bibles, Tracts, small scented candles, books, and anything else you can think of that they might like. These are just ideas to get us going. I have contacted several businesses who will also be making donations of items. The picnic is May 10th so anyone who would like to donate items needs to get them to me by the end of next week. I will be packing the gift bags next weekend. You can call me if you have any questions. And again thank you to all who faithfully serve the Lord and obey His command to Defend the Orphans, Is 1:17