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Foster Care “Fill-a-Bag” Update

Barb RuffnerEvent Updates, Local Outreach, NewsFebruary 24, 2014 Leave a comment0

fillabagWhen children come into foster care, they are often removed from their homes in an emotional and chaotic scene.


Their biological families pack their belongings in whatever bags they may have handy, including garbage bags. Sometimes, families don’t have any large bags to give children to carry their things, as many of these children come from low income families. Many times children come into foster care with nothing that first night.  To have a bag of their own, filled with items that are just for them as they enter a world that is not their own, can offer a small but powerful comfort. 

This was the challenge that we presented to our body back in January. Let us be the hands and feet of Christ by providing shiny new duffel bags filled with the necessities that a child whose world has just been turned upside down would need, plus some extra goodies so they would feel valued and loved.  We can’t measure the effect that holding a teddy bear that will be theirs to keep would have on a child that first night away from the only home they have every known.

We are grateful to God that our people are a generous people and embraced this opportunity to love a child they will probably never meet.  We had over 200 bags donated, which filled two 15-passenger vans.  The bags will be distributed to several local foster care agencies and will meet a tremendous need.

Thank you all for remembering these children – the ones that the Bible calls “the least of these.”  Please be in prayer for future  partnership opportunities with these agencies, and pray for the little lives that each of these bags potentially touch.

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