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Cheerios for Ashlee

Nov 21, 2012


Ashlee’s Sunday School teacher began to cry as she shared this story. Every preschool Sunday School teacher knows snack time is vital to the overall happiness of the class. Like many teachers, she’d often give Cheerios as snacks to her young class. As was always the case, all the kids... read article

Make "Planned" Gifts Before Year's End

Nov 21, 2012


As the end of the year approaches, the giving pace picks up. This is true not only for charities and churches, but for ministries in general. Many people simply wait for the closing of the tax year – and the barrage of financial appeals – to make their major gifts.
If you fall into... read article

Giving Through Seashells & Rocks

Nov 21, 2012


What happens when an 8-year-old boy, a few seashells, a couple of rocks, two parents, and one yard sale collide? Well, for the Mobile campus of Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries (ABCH), this recipe made for a donation of $275 and a lifelong supporter. Sam Jerrell, an... read article

Circle of Compassion

Oct 23, 2012


When you give through the Children’s Homes to protect, nurture, and restore children and families in need, your impact reaches further than you can know, to more people and far into the future. Read on to find out how one young counseling client was led to help others, just as he had been... read article

A Certain Faith in Uncertain Times

Sep 10, 2012


I believe most would agree with this statement, “We live in a world of uncertainty.” I recently learned of a documentary that focuses on a billionaire couple building the largest single-family home in America. After supposedly outgrowing their super-sized 27,000-square-foot-dwelling,... read article

Finding Home

Sep 10, 2012


“After years of living with fear and uncertainty...and never knowing a parent’s love, their lives started to change.” For Michael, home was a van. . .many times parked at truck stops and rest areas. And if that wasn’t horrible enough, this 15-year-old boy was the primary... read article