After widespread flooding in Greece, many homes were evacuated, & residents could not access clean drinking water. However, thanks to your gifts, Send Relief partnered with a local church to help provide temporary housing, cleaning supplies, & drinking water to families in need!

Learn how your church can pack duffel bags to provide essential items for kids entering foster care with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Offer them comfort and support as they transition to new homes. ⤵️ bit.ly/4dEWi9c

Last year, dozens of earthquakes struck a poor, rural region of Central Asia. The destruction was devastating, killing over 2,500 people & destroying over 48,000 homes. However, your gifts to Send Relief helped provide temporary shelters for 100 families before the winter set in!

All children belong in safe, loving families, whether that’s through reunification with parents, kinship care, domestic or international adoption or foster care.

Today, will you join us in praying that God would provide families for each and every child in need?

Join us in praying for the girls in our Las Vegas Ministry Center’s Reclaimed Recovery Program!

Pray:
- They keep showing up & committing to their education.
- They find Jesus if they don't know Him.
- The right people find this program if they are in need.

Foster care is a mission field! When else do we have the chance to welcome someone into our homes and lives, loving them just as Christ loved us?

Do you feel called to get involved with foster care? Take your next step with this online course: bit.ly/4da1zoJ

In response to the flooding in East Texas & powerful wind storm in Houston, Southern Baptists of Texas Convention & Texans on Mission (TBM) are stepping up to meet needs. Today, Send Relief is shipping flood recovery supplies & roofing to support their response.

Join us in praying for those impacted by this crisis.

We are so thankful for these volunteers who recently served at our ministry center in Oklahoma City! They spent hours unpacking boxes of summer clothes and getting the ministry center’s clothing closet ready to meet needs in these upcoming warmer months.

Did you know that about 75% of foster care cases are due to neglect?

By providing support for struggling families before foster care is a necessity, Family Advocacy Ministries (FAM) help prevent children from entering the system. Learn more ⤵️
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The Hub Ministry in Shreveport, LA, is meeting needs & changing lives through the Reclaimed Ministry. This is a trauma-informed program for high-risk teenage girls & survivors of trafficking. We're so thankful for the way this team invests in the lives of young women!

In the heart of a conflict-stricken city in India, Send Relief’s blanket distribution project that YOU funded has brought more than just warmth; it has brought hope, faith and healing.

Read how! bit.ly/3Wj0mWc

Foster care is hard work! In fact, the national average of families who continue fostering after their first year is about 50%, but when supported by a Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM), 90% continue fostering into a second year.

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“We have a responsibility, wherever we are, to be on mission for the sake of the kingdom.” - Gordon Fort, Senior Ambassador to the President, IMB

“Jesus isn’t calling superheroes to engage foster care but faithful servants who will show up and be brave enough to love someone else’s child. He simply invites us to trust Him. We bring our small loaves and few fish, and He brings the miracle.” - Lynette Ezell

Earlier this year, Brazil faced the worst drought in recorded history, severely impacting river communities in the region. Your gifts helped Send Relief provide aid to 15 communities by delivering food baskets and clean water to those in need.

Read more: bit.ly/3QM5BKL

Recently, Send Relief’s Memphis Ministry Center held an event where they were able to bless 35 families in need with baskets filled with household essentials. They also were able to share the gospel and pray with many!

Last year, 500 families in Guatemala were given chickens thanks to your generosity. These families were trained on how to care for their chickens & also how to earn an income by creating a small business. In addition, the families had the opportunity to hear the Good News!

FOSTER CARE BY THE NUMBERS:

• ONE child enters into foster care every TWO minutes
• THREE out of every FIVE children in foster care are reunified with family
• Kids in foster care suffer from PTSD at TWO times the rate of a combat veteran

Your gifts at work!

Your generosity funded a Send Relief project in a remote village in West Africa, where our local partners distributed two months' worth of food staples to 60 families who were facing severe hunger.

Read more: bit.ly/4cQDNxQ

Last month, these students from Sattler College came to serve at our Boston Ministry Center. They spent time getting to know refugees from within the community over a meal. Sometimes compassion ministry looks like slowing down and simply listening to someone’s story!