GOLF TOURNAMENT AND TEE PARTY SURPASS EXPECTATIONS
Thanks to all our hard-working volunteers, our first major fund-raiser was a great success. We had more attendees than expected and raised far more dollars than we hoped! The word is out in the community about the need for Family Promise and how effective it has been already in restoring homeless families with children. Thanks to all the congregations that provided baskets for the auction – eleven baskets brought in $1200! We were blessed by the generosity of our sponsors and those who contributed items for our auction. Please thank them for supporting us and patronize them when you have the opportunity:
Title Sponsor:
Dale Willey Automotive
Family Sponsor:
GlobalCom Solutions
Promise Sponsor:
Cork & Barrel
Future Sponsors:
Mize, Houser and Capitol Federal
Hole Sponsors:
Berthel Fisher Financial Services
Community Mercantile
Event Management Direct
Farm Bureau Financial Services
John and Lori Michel
John M. Suder
Morning Star Church
Lawrence Family Vision Center
Lawrence Journal-World
Maceli’s
Mainline Printing
New Physical Therapy
Soujourners – First Baptist Church
The Citizens National Bank
University National Bank
UMB Bank
US Bank
Wells Fargo Advisors
Wood Re New
Tonight dozens of Lawrence children will be forced to sleep in cars, cheap motels, or outdoors. Without housing, they are vulnerable, friendships are difficult, school is challenging, health is endangered, and self-esteem is fragile. Surrounded by all the beauty and comfort that this community offers, their lives are bleak.
Half of these children are under seven years old. They are children of the working poor who have suffered setbacks that have left them, often for the first time in their lives, homeless. They once lived in a neighborhood where they went to work, shopped, paid taxes, voted, and sent their children to school. But a lost job, sickness or injury, fire, or transportation breakdown has put them on the street.
Unlike the chronic or transient homeless populations, they are not street-smart. Embarrassed by their condition, they mostly stay out of sight. It is a sad fact that every public school in Lawrence, from K-12, has children who will have no secure place to sleep tonight. Some of your children have them in their classes – and likely don’t know it. No child brags about homelessness.
Fortunately there is a solution to this problem – Family Promise. Find out how you can make a difference.
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