Do you LOVE Children? Florida United Methodist Children's Home

Florida United Methodist Children’s Home Enterprise, Florida. Every fifth Sunday (a month that has five Sunday’s), the FUMCH (Florida United Methodist children's Home) requests all Methodist churches in Florida to take up a special offering to go towards the Home's operating budget. The Home is dependent upon the local churches for about 80% of their operating budget funds. We are the representatives for our church to the FUMCH. This month of July has five Sundays. Once a year, in addition to donated funds, we ask our church congregation to donate an item that needs replenishing frequently. In the past we collected over 250 toothbrushes (new of course) and tubes of toothpaste. We collected new and used fishing poles and accessories. Our youth group has collected towels. During this July, we will be collecting crayons, pens and pencils for the children. There are many children who live at the home for a short stay, usually until a family member can take care of them or one of the parents is able/well/cured. The average stay is 18 months with some never leaving until they graduate from high school and are legally an adult. The home tries to give each child their own personal belongings when they arrive and when they leave. It serves to help the transition both coming and going and it also allows each child to have something to call their own. Many churches collect things that are needed every day. We have a church member who works at a business that allows him to occasionally donate hair products that were over runs or simply mislabeled. We have delivered over a pallet full of these hair products to the FUMCH on more than one occasion. This saves money from being spent from their operating funds. Thank You Brad! So the shameless but sincere sales pitch comes next. If you find you have a heart for the Children’s Home, please know we would love to have you joined in our July gift drive for crayons, pens and pencils. 1 or 100, each is a blessing and we can't thank you enough on behalf of the kids. The web link is on our right side bar if you would like to read about the FUMCH.