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The Board of Child Care, a comprehensive multi-faceted regional program that seeks to bring healing and wholeness to needy children, is a beacon. Each year, the Board turns to its United Methodist roots to seek a source of light that enables all the children in its facilities to celebrate Christmas.
In 1874, Thomas Kelso, at age 93, founded the Kelso Home for Girls in Baltimore, creating an orphanage that would become a strong foundation and grow into the Board of Child Care campus in Randallstown. In 1954, United Methodists started the Red Stocking campaign, which allowed Methodist children to collect dimes for the orphans. The first year, 60,000 stockings were collected in Maryland.
This year, the Board of Child Care continues its work with youth who are facing tremendously difficult situations. Many of the children have been scarred by emotional, physical, and psychological trauma and have been left feeling abandoned and forgotten. They face immense challenges as they yearn for fulfilled, purposeful lives.
During the Christmas season, the Board provides gifts for all the children in their care and they’re again turning to you and your congregations for assistance. Each child receives about $100 in gifts. Churches are asked to provide monetary gifts to help purchase these items.
Click here to contribute online. Or you can mail checks to the Board of Child Care, Attention: Development Office, 3300 Gaither Road, Baltimore, MD 21244 and denote “Christmas Drive” on the memo line so that your gift is appropriately credited.
There are several other ways you can give at Christmas to make a difference in the lives of children. Opportunities are outlined on the BCC webpage at www.boardofchildcare.org/christmas.
This Christmas you can give the gift of help, healing, wholeness, and hope. Please give generously.
Peace and blessings,
Bishop LaTrelle M. Easterling
Peninsula-Delaware and Baltimore-Washington Conferences
The United Methodist Church
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