"Hello Pastors
I'm personally requesting you, the leaders of your local church, to help be The Church. We have an opportunity that I believe God has put in our laps related to "widows and orphans"
Did you know there are 315 kids a year in Multnomah County (6-7 a week) who have to enter the foster care system because their living situation is unhealthy/unsafe. The average child, when removed from their living situation, sits in one of these county DHS offices for 3 hours in a cold chair waiting while a case worker tries to find a foster family. I can't even imagine the fear, confusion, hurt of that child sitting in that chair. All of these offices have broken furniture, drab colors, etc due to lack of funding and capacity to do anything different....
Faithfully Serving WITH You in Christ,
Milan Homola
Executive Director-- Compassion Connect INC."
Here is our Opportunity
The East Portland office of Multnomah County DHS (and all offices in the tri-county region) is open to having local churches partner with it to shine a light in all these very dark situations.
This is an opportunity to be The Church. God is building a collaboration of churches to be the light of Christ in these hurting kids lives all over the metro area.
Milan is asking you to join him in exploring what that might look like at the East Portland Office.
1. Please join Milan on a tour of the office (122nd and Powell). He is targeting the week of Sept 24th. he only needs an hour of your time. (Please contact Milan if you are a pastor/leader who would join him for that tour)
2. Consider taking another small step and help with a
small beautification project at the East Portland Office Nov 10th. This will be The Church serving (not Compassion Connect or any one church) so it can't be done if they don't get 5-6 churches to send about 5-10 people.
Please call Milan at, 507-313-3771 or email him at milan@compassionconnect.com and let him know when you could possibly make a tour and if you would be interested in getting a small group to come work as The Church cleaning, painting, decorating on Nov 10th.
