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Families need hope.
They need hope for opportunities that will prepare and encourage parents and children. They need hope for parents to be able to meet the challenges of vesting good, scriptural values in their children. They need hope for children who are challenged by today's temptation-based culture.
The Hope for Families Program at Gracewood provides families and children the support they need, whether it is a foster or adoptive family, or simply parents trying to do the best job they can raising their children.
Hope for Families is a community-based program that includes:
- Helping foster and adoptive parents navigate a potential mine field of issues
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Just two months old, little Aliza was already battered and broken, wearing a shoulder harness and leg splints, when she came into STARRY's care. Because of extreme abuse and neglect, she had sustained bone fractures to her shins, left clavicle, femur and ribs.
STARRY nurtured the helpless infant, loving her unconditionally through unimaginable difficulties. After months of rehabilitation and therapy, she became a happy toddler and was soon adopted by a loving foster family.
This month, you have the opportunity to make twice the difference for Aliza and children like her.
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Security - we all want it in some form or fashion even if it is for a short time.
Spring has sprung, and I was out weedeating around my house. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move as I swung the weedeater around the fence and the air conditioning unit. It was a baby rabbit, and his heart was beating like crazy. I picked him up and held him in one hand with his little head and ears sticking out above my hand.
My family oohed and aahed over the little guy for a moment, and then we helped find him a safe place in the wooded area behind our house where hopefully he met up again with his mother.
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