One More One Less Project – To Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local church with foster care, reunification, and adoption.

ONE MORE ONE LESS PROJECT

To Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local church with foster care, reunification, and adoption.

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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

WHO WE ARE

We are Jeff and Mandy Marburger. We are simply 2 ordinary people who felt God call us to the extraordinary journey of foster care and adoption.

GET INVOLVED

Make a difference today

Become a Licensed Foster Family

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Become a Financial Partner

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Become a Champion Church

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CALL TO ACTION

Our Foster to Adoption Journey

There is approximately 11,000 children in foster care and 6,000 licensed foster parents in North Carolina. Our goal is to have at least 2 Champion Churches in each county that are creating a culture of foster care and adoption within their community.

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Ministry News & Updates

Ministry Won’t Always Feel Like Ministry

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. This false idea that ministry should or will always feel like ministry. We like it when ministry feels good and looks good. We like it when we can actually see our ministry doing something good for this world. However, when we can’t see that happening, we question it. Are we still doing what

Mandy Marburger October 18, 2024

The Seriousness of Foster Care < The Seriousness of Following Jesus

I could talk to you all day and tell you stories, statistics, and reason after reason about why you should be involved in foster care. But I don’t want to try to convince you – I want to pray for you. My arguments are empty, but prayer has a lasting effect that changes hearts. I am not a foster parent

Mandy Marburger October 18, 2024

Intertwine

Hey guys! Thanks for coming along with us as we better inform you about our mission statement, what it means and how we work towards reaching this mission! We are on the last part of our mission statement this week. Just as a refresher, our mission at One More One Less Project is to Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local

Mandy Marburger October 18, 2024

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Upcoming events

Catamount Men's Basketball

February 15, 2025
2:45 PM arrival time
Ingles Court at The Ramsey Center
92 Catamount Road Cullowhee, NC 28723
(click here for Google Maps directions)

All Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Placement Families will Receive FREE ADMISSION. In addition, each family will receive a treat bag and pizza (while supplies last).

Gardner-Webb Basketball

All Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Placement Families will Receive FREE ADMISSION. In addition, each family will receive a treat bag and concession stand money.

Catamount Men's Basketball

All Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Placement Families will Receive FREE ADMISSION. In addition, each family will receive a treat bag and pizza (while supplies last).

GET INVOLVED

Upcoming events

Poverty donation campaign

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One-day fundraiser event

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Boosting charity campaign

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Adult education programme

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VOLUNTEERS

Our volunteers

Jenny Hobbs

Founder

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Alison Grey

Co-founder

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William Hobbs

Supervisor

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Mary Smith

Volunteer

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One More One Less in Action

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To Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local church with foster care and adoption!

Our team is in Jackson County, NC for the next few

Our team is in Jackson County, NC for the next few days and we are thrilled that we got to spend some time with these sweet friends last night who hosted us for dinner and provided breakfast for us this morning!
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Tim and Jess Kraft and their family are the catalyst in using basketball as a vehicle to raise awareness of foster care and adoption! We did an awareness event for the first time 3 years ago at Gardner Webb University! We have been able to continue that each year at Gardner Webb! However, this year we are also able to have an awareness event at Western Carolina University! That event is happening today and we are so grateful for this family and their continued heart and passion to bring awareness to the foster care crisis in North Carolina!
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#westerncarolinauniversity #fostercare #adoption

We are so excited about this event coming up on Sa

We are so excited about this event coming up on Saturday, February 22nd and we hope we can fill the place up with foster families, kinship families and adoptive families!
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If you are a foster, kinship or adoptive family and would like to attend, you can for FREE! You can simply visit our website (in our BIO) to register!
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You will get into the game for FREE and also receive snack vouchers! Come have a family day with us!
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If you are NOT a foster family and just have a heart for raising awareness for foster care, reunification and/or adoption, come join us as we honor these families!

We are so excited to be partnering with Western Ca

We are so excited to be partnering with Western Carolina Men’s basketball team to bring awareness to the community about foster care and also show appreciation to the local foster, kinship and adoptive families!
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If you are a foster family, kinship family or adoptive family and you live in or around Western Carolina, we would love to see you at this game and bless you with FREE admission, a treat bag and concession vouchers!
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If you are a pastor in this community, we would love to connect with you while we are in town! Or if you have any connections to pastors in this area that you can connect us to, please let us know! We will be in the area the 12th of February through the 16th of February and would love to meet you!
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Thanks for helping us to Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local church with foster care, reunification and adoption and helping us further our mission to have 2 champion churches in all 100 counties in North Carolina! #fostercare #reunification #adoption #inform #inspire #intertwine #onemoreoneless

We are so grateful to start the new year off celeb

We are so grateful to start the new year off celebrating adoptions at one of our champion churches in Cleveland County!
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It’s an honor to partner with @pleasantcitychurch and it’s always so cool to see how the Lord is working in and through this church body!
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So many families who have been willing to say “yes” to children! God loving families who are willing to step into the hard and say “this doesn’t define you but God does!”
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Celebrating all God has done and all he will continue to do in 2025!!! One more equals one less!
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#onemoreonelessproject #fostercare #adoption #celebratingallGodhasdone #2025 #championchurches

We hope your home is a mess today. We hope your ch

We hope your home is a mess today. We hope your children have big smiles on their faces. We hope you feel happy and content. We hope you are surrounded by those you love.
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But if you aren’t, there is hope!
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Jesus came. And he didn’t just come. He came to be with us. To live life like us so he could ultimately die for us. If your day doesn’t look ideal to you today, I hope you can find hope in the fact that Jesus came. For you. There is JOY in that alone.
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Luke 19:10. #onemoreoneless #fostercare #reunification #adoption

It’s Giving Tuesday and we know that many people

It’s Giving Tuesday and we know that many people are looking for ways they can give today!
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We hope you will consider our organization as a way to give today and know that God will bless your gift!
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Our organization exists to Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local church with foster care, reunification and adoption. We work all over the state of NC and our mission is to have 2 Champion Churches in all 100 counties in NC!
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A Champion Church is a church willing to create a culture of foster care within their church body! A Champion Church rallies around the foster care community in many ways and is truly the hands and feet of Jesus to children & families who so desperately need the hope of Jesus.
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If you would be willing to give today to our organization, we would so appreciate it and you can do so by clicking the link in our BIO that will take you directly to our business Venmo account! You can also check out our stories or comments below for the Venmo QR code to scan! This is an easy and quick way for people to give so we hope you will prayerfully consider!
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Thank you for all you do and for believing in what God has called us to! #onemoreoneless #inform #inspire #intertwine #fostercare #reunification #adoption #givingtuesday

Grateful for the opportunity to share with the kid

Grateful for the opportunity to share with the kids at @farpgastonia this morning!
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Grateful that seeds of foster care, reunification and adoption are planted in the hearts of children early on and so we feel honored that we could be part of planting those seeds today.
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Our prayer is that ONE of those children would grow up and decide to become a foster parent. One more christian foster home is one less child without the hope of Jesus.
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We also got the opportunity to share simple ways that children can be a support and help in the foster care crisis right in Gaston County! A couple of those ways:
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1. Support a foster child by making them feel welcome at church.
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2. Providing items for foster children like diapers, new clothes, new toys or new toiletry items.
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3. Pray. We encouraged the children to get on their knees at home alone or with their families and pray for foster children. And we got to model what that would look like.
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Thankful for First ARP and how they bring so much change to the foster care community in Gaston county. We are grateful to have them as a faithful champion church. #inform #inspire #intertwine #fostercare #reunification #adoption #onemoreoneless

This is where we are for our car seat drive! . TH

This is where we are for our car seat drive!
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THANK YOU to whoever sent 3 booster seats our way! We are so grateful for your part in helping us reach our goal of 50 car seats!
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There is still plenty of time to get these car seats sent in OR for donations to be made from our website!
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Feel free to private message us with any questions you have! Thanks again for helping us to serve local foster families and foster children! #carseatdrive #50carseats #fostercare #onemoreoneless

Here’s our goal: 50 car seats by November 11th!

Here’s our goal: 50 car seats by November 11th!
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As people purchase or donate, I will mark off numbers to keep everyone updated on where we are!
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You can purchase straight from Amazon and have it shipped! You can shop directly at the store and deliver it! Or you can donate on our website by clicking the “donate” button, choose the amount you would like to donate toward our car seat drive and then add “car seat drive” in the comment box.
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We are so grateful for all of you! Address to ship car seats are in our stores! We so appreciate you guys! These car seats will go directly to foster families & foster children in need! #onemoreoneless #inform #inspire #intertwine #fostercare #carseatdrive

Swipe to see the different ways you can help with

Swipe to see the different ways you can help with our car seat drive!!!
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Our goal is to collect 50 car seats between now and November 11th!
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This is a tangible and simple way to be a blessing to a foster family, a foster child and our local DSS! #fostercare #inform #inspire #intertwine #onemoreoneless #onemoreonelessproject #adoption #reunification #carseatdrive

Opportunity to partner with Foster Families and ou

Opportunity to partner with Foster Families and our local DSS!
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One More One Less Project is holding a car seat drive for m our local department of social services and we would love your help!
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We need infant car seats , high back boosters either 3 point harness, high back boosters without 3 point harness and no back boosters!
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Our goal is to bless them with 50 carseats!
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This is a very easy and tangible way you can help foster families and DSS who will be giving these carseats out to families in need.
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When placements come in, car seats are a huge need. We want to be able to offer support to these families and children that enter care and this is a small way we can do that!
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If you would like to be part of this car seat drive and bless these children and families (as well as our local DSS), please purchase your car seat of choice of the options listed above and deliver to address provided! Once all car seats comes in, we will deliver them to our local DSS to distribute to families & children who need them!
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Thank you so much for partnering with us in this way! We appreciate you being part of what we do here at One More One Less Project! #onemoreonelessproject #fostercare #community #carseatdrive #intertwine

We say often that when we originally had the visio

We say often that when we originally had the vision of “Not Far From Home”, we had community in mind.
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We didn’t want whoever moved in to simply have shelter. We wanted them to have family, even if they didn’t have family close by. We didn’t want whoever moved in to simply have necessities but we wanted to go above and beyond in showing them the extravagant love of Jesus.
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While we normally only open “Not Far From Home” up to teens aging out of foster care or birth moms looking to reunify with their children in foster care… this past weekend God gave us the opportunity to love on a single foster mom with 5 children who had been displaced due to Hurricane Helene.
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We were feeling restless this weekend and had spent most of our time after the hurricane helping neighbors clean up their yards from fallen trees or cleaning up our own. Yet we wanted to do something more to help someone that had been impacted more heavily than we had by the hurricane. We wanted to GO to western NC. However, with 5 kids, we couldn’t just load up all 5 kids in the car and head up the mountain. So we started praying.
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“God, we want to GO. We want to do more than just help our local neighbors. If this is something you want us to do, provide that opportunity.”
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The very next day we got the call about this single foster mama needing a place to go with her kiddos. God provided an opportunity and we have been able to love on his precious mama who has been a single foster mom for 13 years.
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This mama has lost almost everything due to water damage and mold that has set in within her home. Please be praying for her as she tries to replenish items lost, take care of 5 beautiful kiddos and adjusts to being in a completely different county because there just wasn’t anywhere to go in her own county. Pray for the church to wrap around her and love her. Pray for the kids to feel the sweet love of Jesus during this time! And pray for her to find her permanent home.
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We are so thankful that when we ask God for an opportunity to bless someone, he does just that! #onemoreoneless #fostercare #hurricanehelene #intertwine

We haven’t been able to post due to power outage

We haven’t been able to post due to power outages and a lack of internet but we are praying for all of those who have been affected by Hurricane Helene (both local and all over the state of NC)!
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We will be opening our children’s clothing closet today from 12pm-3pm if anyone has a need for clothing locally or desires to grab some to take to other counties who may need children’s clothing. We also have toiletry items, some diapers and wipes and other items that may be useful during this time.
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The address is 1114 South Lafayette Street.
If you come, text the number 704-692-4172 and simply say “here for the clothing closet” and someone will come to meet you at the front to walk you inside.
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Again, praying for all of those affected. We did have a tree fall in the back yard of our “NOT FAR FROM HOME” program but that’s minimal compared to what many are dealing with right now.
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Please be praying for @bmhforchildren (Black Mountain Home for children) as they have had some extensive damage to their properties in Buncombe County. We partner with this children’s home as an organization and send Buncombe County families to Black Mountain Home to become licensed foster parents. There are some ways you can help them currently in our BIO!
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The verse that keeps coming to mind during all of this is 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 which says “For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen as eternal.”
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Praying. Praying. And praying some more.

What do we make much of? . Is it fear? The unknow

What do we make much of?
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Is it fear? The unknown of what foster care will look Iike if we say yes? The what if scenarios?
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Or do we make much of the fact that every single child (no matter what they have been exposed to, what they have gone through, what kind of conditions they have been living in, no matter their age, race or sex) is a child of God and deserving of a loving, Christ centered and safe home?
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God sets the lonely in families as it says in Psalm 68:6. Yet, he does that through willing people.
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We have to be willing to walk through the scary and the hard and the unknown for these kids. We can’t sit in our comforts and fears because in doing that, the crisis of foster care continues to get worse.
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May we take it seriously that God is ready to use us in a child’s life if we are simply willing. #fostercare #reunification #adoption #onemoreoneless #inform #inspire #intertwine

MAPPS classes are starting this Thursday!!! . MAP

MAPPS classes are starting this Thursday!!!
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MAPPS are a required 10 week course that is the beginning steps of becoming a licensed foster parent! You are not required to get licensed by attending the class. But the classes are a required 1st step in becoming licensed to care for foster children. Some people attend the classes to educate themselves on the process before deciding.
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The classes will be held at the Department of Social Services and if you are interested in registering to attend the classes, email Tiffany Hamilton at Tiffany.hamilton@clevelandcountync.gov to reserve your spot.
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If God has been stirring your heart towards foster care, we encourage you to listen to the stirring and attend these classes. The class begins at 6pm on Thursday! These classes are only offered twice per year currently (once in the spring and once in the fall)!
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We need more foster parents to care for the many children that come into foster care. We hope you will consider being a safe place for these children during one of the most difficult times in their lives. Our prayer is that the church would answer this call to set the lonely in families (Psalm 68:6).
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One more christian foster parent stepping into the lives of these children is one less child feeling like they don’t have someone who is fighting for them, caring for them or loving them. One more christian foster parent choosing to say yes is one less child feeling hopeless and alone. One more christian foster parent equals one less child without hearing about the love of Jesus. Will you consider being ONE more??? #fosterparents #fosterparentsneeded #answerthecall #fostercare #reunification #adoption #onemoreonelessproject

Today we got to deliver a large portion of the dia

Today we got to deliver a large portion of the diapers that were donated from the Diaper Run this past weekend to the Department of Social Services in Cleveland County!
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We got to pray with them and they were so thankful for this large donation!
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We are also donating some to the Pregnancy Resource Center and one of our Champion Churches to have in their foster closet!
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Thank you so much again @cps__construction for making this event possible!

@cps__construction and a bunch of bikers decided t

@cps__construction and a bunch of bikers decided to get together and do something really incredible!
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They planned a Diaper Run that started at Oak Grove Baptist Church and ended at Shelby Mission Camp and after all diapers were counted, we were blown away by the generosity of so many!
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CPS team and all of these amazing people involved were able to donate SIX THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED diapers to children in foster care. This is going to bless so many families and we just want to say THANK YOU!
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Thank you for being part of something bigger than yourselves and believing in the vision we have at One More One Less Project which is to Inform, Inspire and Intertwine the local church with foster care, reunification and adoption. #diaperrun #cpsconstruction #onemoreonelessproject #fostercare #reunification #adoption

We couldn’t be more grateful for @cps__construct

We couldn’t be more grateful for @cps__construction and all they do in this community to help families in need!
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The diaper run yesterday was a huge success and I believe there were around 6,500 diapers donated to children in foster care! WOW! You guys showed up and amaze us by your generosity!
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We are so incredibly grateful! #onemoreoneless #fostercare #reunification #adoption #diaperrun #cpsconstruction #cps

As a pastor, I know and understand the complexitie

As a pastor, I know and understand the complexities that go into this calling and role. Sometimes we are approached by many things and countless ways we could “change the world” and we can’t just say yes to everything.
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However, I encourage you to consider what Gods heart is when it comes to foster care and where he has you and your congregation in relation to it?
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We believe, at one more one less project, that being informed about the needs within foster care is vital to having a healthy body of Christ. Gods heart is His children and being certain that they know of His great love.
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“God is not here walking around on this earth, except through us.” - Angela Braniff
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We are Gods hands and feet to these children. Knowing this, what we will do moving forward? Nothing can no longer be an option. There are children without Christian homes; without homes at all. There are children who don’t have a family and we know (from experience) that family changes everything.
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James 1:27 is clear that “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faithless is this: to visit the orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world”
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The Greek word for “to visit” is episkeptomai and it means to investigate, supervise, oversee, have regard for, examine closely or invest in.
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I pray we are doing this church. #onemoreneless #fostercare #pastors

We wanted to take some time to say THANK YOU to al

We wanted to take some time to say THANK YOU to all of our volunteers who helped us on Saturday at the 7th Inning Stretch Festival!
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We know that you didn’t have to come out and serve but you chose to! We appreciate you & we couldn’t have pulled off manning all the inflatables without you!
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Thank you for coming to simply smile and love on kids in the heat! 🥵

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