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Ever wonder how your church is doing when it comes to engagement in foster care? Today is the day you find out.

Over 16,000 children in the state of Ohio are not home this July 4th. They bravely celebrate in foster homes, kinship (relative) homes and some in residential homes.

Did you send or receive a card or a call for Mothers or Fathers Day over the past two months? If you did chances are you helped to boost the phone traffic on Mothers Day to exceed every other day of the year around the world!

In our area, like most of the state, we have seen the number of children in foster care double in the last three years. Thankfully, we have also seen an increase in the number of foster families.

Handwritten and heartfelt. When was the last time you received a handwritten thank-you note...from a youth? If you are like the rest of the world those are becoming rare. We are blessed to receive such a note because of YOU.

What conversations have been spoken to your heart?

Loving our neighbors. I have heard it said, your neighbor is not simply the person next door but the next person you meet.

Room for one more.Room for one more. That is the lesson I learn from our foster and kinship families every day of the year. Room for The One, Jesus, is the heart of the message of Christmas.

...and all through the house. What is your house like this time of year for your family? Hurried and hectic or in holy anticipation? Or a little of both?

For the Month of DecemberThe Bible Walk: Life Size Wax Museum will be offering free admission to foster and kinship families for the month of December.

Be a Holiday Hero. You can be a Holiday Hero by joining our year-end giving campaign to help more foster children have a healing home in 2019.

A full house, an overflowing table are gifts to be cherished. In our area over 150 children are not in their own homes. Thanks to the many foster and kinship families have room for one or two or three more at their table today and everyday.