More Than a Meal

More than a meal…

You may be already prepping for the meal but most of us will acknowledge the most important experience is not the food but the family and friends in relationship with us around the table. 

Am I referring to Thanksgiving? …yes, but also a care team supporting a foster or kinship family. A weekly meal is more than food on the table, it is love, support, and prayer. Foster and kinship families receive the gift of time and relationship from their care team. It is a tangible “I see you”. 

Hear the impact directly from one of our kinship families…

M (grandchild in kinship care) is becoming the little social butterfly. He enjoys people coming in and out of our home and especially looks forward to the meal each of you have provided one day a week. M continues to make more and more eye contact and remember people, faces and names & shares with others that he “loves” his church family.  He is involved in programs – Lifewise Academy and Beacon at Trinity. M Knows that God loves him because of the people around him who love him from the church. He enjoys recognizing people in the church hallway.
 
Each of you are making a difference in M’s life. When you step into our home – M is seeing a piece of the church reaching out to him because Jesus loves him.  Every night he wants to hear stories from his Bible along with a prayer to help him feel safe when he sleeps. He knows that you are praying for him and that also bring a smile to his face.
 
Thanks for the seeds each of you are planting in our grandson and in his life. You may think it is only a meal- but it is the smiles, the interactions, the chance for us to set down and breathe and talk about the things in our day that made us smile and has reminded us where Jesus is in our day. Thank each of you for making a difference.

Would you give to help us raise up more supported foster families in our communities? There are children that will not be gathering around the table with their own parents this Thanksgiving. Is there a foster home in their community or will they be sitting around a table far from home? Will their foster home be supported by a loving care team providing the hands and feet of Jesus to bring comfort in difficult days?

As you celebrate your Thanksgiving, would you give to help us call more families to prepare open their home children in their community and surround these families with care teams from their local church?

Thank you for your gift overflowing from your thankfulness!

Sherry M. Bouquet

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