Foster Kids

Foster Kids


Giving Foster Children homes is a huge priority for our international mission organization Tumaini.  However, children without parents, homes, or people to care for them is also a local problem that we can be uniquely and intimately involved in.
 
Helping Foster Families

Here is a great opportunity for you to stretch out of your comfort zone and help foster kids.
 
No, we’re not asking you to sign-up to be a foster parent!
 
But we are asking you to volunteer just a few hours of your time on Saturday, May 14 from 10a-3:30p at the Honoring Foster Families Picnic at Rancho Jurupa Park.
 
Pathway will host one of the craft booths for the kids so we need people to work shifts at the table to help kids assemble their simple craft.  (3 people at each one hour shift.)
 
Or, if you cannot be there in person, you can help by donating money to buy the crafts.
 
There is a sign-up sheet at the Information Booth on Sunday. Or if you have more questions, you can contact Cindy Gordon or Laureen Young at 951-781-8465.

Facts:
  • 4,000 foster children in the city of Riverside    
  • 50,000 foster children in Southern California     
  • 50% of foster youth will not graduate from high school    
  • 70% of foster youth will be homeless, on drugs, incarcerated, or dead 
  • 58,000 calls of abuse and neglect made to Child Protective Services yearly

There are over forty scriptures that speak the Christian community as to its responsibility in meeting the needs of these children. Too often, our churches have not heeded these callings and have turned the responsibility of caring for these children over to others. This is why we walk.