MONROE – The Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home Annual Offering is scheduled for Sunday, June 13.
This offering, held annually in churches across our state, allows your Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home to minister to countless children and families throughout the year.
[img_assist|nid=6421|title=Perry Hancock President, CEO Childrens Home|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=88|height=100]Critical needs are being met, lives are being changed, and hope is being restored to children and families who are lost and hurting.
“We have so many things to be thankful for in this ministry, but the greatest is changed lives,” said LBCH President and CEO Perry Hancock.
“So far this year, eight of our children have received Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. Two of the six graduates of our first semester of Christian Women’s Job Corps rededicated their lives to Christ. This is so fundamental to all that we do: meeting critical needs and restoring hope by pointing children and families to Christ.”
Hancock said he has witnessed a strong cooperative and generous spirit among our churches and individual supporters since he came to the Children’s Home in 2003.
“This ministry would not be possible without Louisiana Baptists investing financially in the lives of hurting children and families,” Hancock said.
“Your prayers and support, especially during this special offering time mean so much. Lives are being changed for the better and it’s all made possible by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the loving, generous hearts of friends like you.
Thank you for giving children and families hope and a future,” Hancock added.
The Ministries of Your Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home include:
Residential Childcare – Meeting needs of hurting kindergarteners through 21-year-olds.
HomePlace – Providing love and hope to homeless children and their mothers through residential family care.
Granberry Christian Counseling Centers – Answering God’s call to care by providing professional Christian counseling to individuals, couples, and families at ten locations across the state.
Sellers Maternity Ministries in Baton Rouge – Offering a Christian alternative to abortion and giving those facing an unplanned pregnancy and their unborn children hope and a
future.
Christian Women’s Job Corps of Monroe – Providing women with job and life skills training for successful living.
Louisiana Baptist Foster Care and Adoption Network – Helping to connect Christians who care with children in need.
Children’s Home Sunday Offering video shares Sarah’s story
A beautiful young woman named Sarah is featured in the Children’s Home Sunday Offering promotional material this year (see picture below).
Four days before her fifth birthday, Sarah came to live at the Children’s Home. She had no idea at the time that she would call LBCH “home” for the next several years of her life.
Sarah is a wonderful example of the work God is doing through the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home. Sarah came to know Christ and was baptized at First Baptist Church of Monroe while living in Grace Cottage.
After her graduation from high school in 2005, the Children’s Home sent Sarah to college where she began her studies in journalism. In December 2009, Sarah graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Today she is employed at KPLC, the NBC affiliate in Lake Charles.
“I may not have come from the best circumstances, but that didn’t have to define who I was,” Sarah said recently. “The Children’s Home gave me hope for the best future possible. I established my Christian values there and I still have them today. It is my home and will
always be a huge part of my life.”
Thank you, Louisiana Baptists, for your part in Sarah’s success. Please remember her in your prayers as she begins this new chapter in her life story.
Sarah tells her story of life with the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home in this year’s Children’s Home Sunday Offering video. To view or download the video, please go to www.lbch.org. Perry Hancock President, CEO Children’s Home