servingchildren. strengtheningfamilies. Vol. 4, No. 3 JuneJuly 2010 The Children Come Home PAGE 3 Inside View From On High PAGE 4 Tang Soo Do Attitude PAGE 5 Camping For Christ PAGE 8 The success stories youll read inside are made possible by your donations.
Familiar Faces A Letter From Our President years of caring that constitutes our history. Some of these alums are well over 60 years of age and may bring their grandchildren with them. What stories they will hear I can already imagine the laughter and feel the tears that will be shed as they recall times long gone. Our Board recently approved a change in our vision statement. The revision includes the idea that our ministries will have a generational impact on those we serve. Nowhere is that mor
The Children Come Home very other year, on the last Saturday in July, the children come home for a family reunion. Since 1950, thousands of children have found refuge on the treeshaded Round Rock campus of Texas Baptist Childrens Home, sometimes for a few days or weeks, sometimes for years and years. They first arrived from all walks of life from all over Texas, sometimes with little more than the clothes they were wearing, but carrying heartbreaking stories of hardship and difficulty, of broken
View From On High Miracle Farm P atrick Danes adventurous spirit keeps him climbing his way to the top sometimes four or five times a day. In his job inspecting and repairing wind turbines for Vientek, a turbine blade manufacturer, hes often suspended in the wind more than 300 feet up. Im actually afraid of heights, so I have to put myself in a different state of mind when Im up there, the 20yearold explained. But I trust my equipment and know what my harness and ropes are rated to hold. I d
ang Soo Do may sound like something you would order from a takeout menu, but for two Texas Baptist Childrens Home boys, its their sport of choice, far outranking baseball or football. Jax and Israel, both 11, tried their hands at several other sports but have decided to throw themselves into their new martial arts passion instead. They have compared Tang Soo Do with all the other sports and are actively making a decision to make this the priority sport in their lives for now, said House Mom Jenn
Family A lbum Children At Heart Ministries MIRACLE FARM Almost 50 senior adults from First Baptist Georgetown, including members of its Friday Folks group and others, visited the Farm for a day of fun and education. The group watched a roping and riding demonstration, toured the campus and shared lunch with the boys. They took with them some great memories and left behind a vanload of wish list items. GRACEWOOD Hope Tree Home Loans recently announced a program that can benefit Gracewood throug
A Marathon Day of Good Golf Children At Heart Ministries The 18th Annual Children At Heart Golf Marathon, held April 19 at the Star Ranch Golf Club, raised more than 185,000 for children and families. Almost 100 individual golfers on 34 teams shared the responsibility of playing 100 holes of golf in a single day. After teeing off in the chilly dawn, golfers helped bring the total raised during 18 years of Marathons to almost 2.6 million. They played 3,400 holes and took 15,749 strokes, many of
Children At Heart Foundation Complicated, Expensive Not Necessarily. recently visited with a longtime donor of Children At Heart and asked if she had ever considered including our ministry in her estate plan. She admitted that she had a will that was drafted years ago. She said she would love to include us in her will, but changing my will is too complicated and expensive. I responded that she might be able to make a revocable estate gift at her death without making a new will. There are three
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