Safe Families for Children Fundraiser at Chicago Auto Show!

LYDIA Home and Safe Families for Children is proud to invite you to First Look for Charity on February 9^th.  This black-tie affair enables participants to behold the nation’s largest auto show in grandeur, the evening before the show opens to the public, and indulge in a variety of gourmet hors d’oeuvres, live music and a new vehicle giveaway.

Here's the best part: For each ticket you buy, Lydia Home and Safe Families for Children receives a tax deductible donation of $223. These funds come directly to us for programs helping children and families in crisis. It’s an amazing opportunity to enjoy a unique experience and help hurting people at the same time.

We need your help!
Please purchase your tickets right away and share this event with your friends and family. If you’re not able to attend, please consider giving a gift to support the children we serve.

Buy your tickets now!

Strengthening Children & Families Luncheon!

You are invited to join

Bethany Christian Services of Illinois and
Safe Families for Children

for our

Strengthening Children and Families
Fundraising Luncheon

Thursday, March 1, 2018
12:00 - 1:15 pm

Doors open at 11:15 a.m.
Lunch and program begin promptly at noon

The Carlisle

435 East Butterfield Rd

Lombard, IL

Bethany Christian Services is shining God's love into the hard places 

and striving to strengthen children and families.  

We deeply value your partnership in this ministry. Your investment equips families 

to be God's love to children. Please join us and learn how God is working through

Bethany Christian Services and Safe Families for Children to strengthen children and families.  

Guests will have an opportunity to financially support the ministries 

of Bethany Christian Services. 

Lunch is complimentary and reservations are required.
Please RSVP by February 16, 2018.

Click HERE for more information and to RSVP.

Adoption Fundraiser for Willow Creek Family!

We are Tullio and Kelly Cox and we are fundraising to bring home Baby Cox.

Kelly's desire to adopt from China began in 2011 when she served at a foster home for children with special needs. She recently returned for the fourth time where she met a little girl in need of heart surgery. After just seeing pictures of her, Tullio instantly felt the need to bring her home and give her the care she needs.We are now in the process of trying to adopt her. 

 

We've completed our application, parent training and home study and sent in all of our Dossier documents (we are just waiting for our 1800A approval). If you know anyone that has ever adopted you know it can be a difficult and very expensive process. Please consider purchasing a t-shirt to help us bring our little girl home. 

 

Thanks you for walking with us in this journey. We hope you think of us and Baby Cox whenever you wear your shirt. 

 

Purchase your t-shirt here!

 

Royal Family Kids Camp Fundraiser!

You are invited to the following event: FORE THE KIDS!

Please consider joining our Royal Family Team for our second annual Topgolf FUNdraiser. Attending or donating to this event is a huge blessing as we seek to raise support for the 2018 camp year!!! Please click on  the "Attend Event" tab to purchase your admission ticket or to make a donation of any size.

Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Sunday, October 1, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM (CDT) Topgolf 3211 Odyssey Court Naperville, IL 60563  View Map  Attend Event Share:

Please share this event with your friends and family via email and social media!

Also, we need your help by acquiring items that could be used in a silent auction or raffle. Please fill out this Google form: Silent Auction Donation Form

Family Fun Day with Lydia!

LYDIA Rockford Presents...   1st Annual LYDIA Family Fun Day Sunday, June 5th from 3-6 PM The Family Fun Day is a free family event that will feature food, fun activities for kids, and news regarding LYDIA Urban Academy and Safe Families. This will be a great opportunity to celebrate how God is working through LYDIA Rockford. While the event is free to attend, please be sure to reserve your ticket(s). During the event, you will have an opportunity to give a financial gift to support LYDIA Rockford. Thank you in advance for supporting an organization that is creating change in our young people and for the community at-large. If you haven’t registered yet, please click here to reserve your tickets.  If you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation you may also do that through the event page.     LYDIA Rockford | 223 S. Winnebago St., Rockford, IL 61102

Ed's Tour de Adoption!

Dave Thomas’ commitment to giving back drives me to help and do much more.
Today, as I begin to transition my business to the next generation, I want to honor and recognize Dave Thomas, who not only taught me everything about running a successful business, but who also created the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption to help children waiting to be adopted from foster care.

In that spirit, I am embarking on another journey – a "Tour de Adoption" via cycling across America, from Virginia Beach to San Diego. My goal will be raising funds & awareness by making stops along the way.  My dream is to ensure that the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, has my support to help the more than 107,000 abused and neglected children who are in foster care and waiting to be adopted move into a loving family and a permanent home.

Learn more about my story here: 
 
Video about my tour
Full details about my tour
Facebook
Twitter
 
Be sure to follow along using #edsadoptiontour ! 

Safe Families Fundraiser!

REGISTER HERE!

Bethany Christian Services Fundraising Luncheon

A Child's Hope
A Fundraising Luncheon

Bethany's heart is for children, and every child deserves a loving family - that's where they thrive best.  Across the United States and around the world, we are shining God's love into the hard places and striving to bring children and families together.  You are an important partner in this ministry, and your giving equips families to be a child's hope.

Lunch will be a gift from our sponsors and reservations are required.

An opportunity will be provided to support the ministries of Bethany Christian Services and Safe Families for Children.

Thursday, March 3, 2016
12:00 - 1:15 pm

Doors open at 11:15 am

Program begins promptly at Noon 

The Carlisle
435 East Butterfield Rd
Lombard, IL 

Please register by February 18, 2016.

REGISTER HERE

Support the Adoption of An Orphan with Down Syndrome!

Be a Christmas miracle for an orphan with Down syndrome!

When you support our annual Christmas Angel Tree, you get more than a tree ornament.   ~Your donation~ is the gift of a FAMILY... a lifetime of love and potential....a personal, meaningful, life-altering gift...to a child who has been hidden away and neglected simply because they were born with special needs.  Donations to Reece's Rainbow serve as adoption grants, minimizing the financial challenge of bringing these children out of mental institutions and into loving families of their own.  The transformation once home is *profound* and obvious! (see above, Corbin and Paxton, adopted from China in 2015)      VISIT OUR ANGEL TREE AND DONATE NOW   Reece's Rainbow | message line: (240) 780-2120 | reecesrainbow.org

Lydia Benefit Dinner

In 1916 LYDIA Home Association opened an orphanage, responding to the desperate plight of children who had no home and no one to care for them. 99 years later, LYDIA is still responding to the needs of troubled children and is doing so on a global scale through the Safe Families for Children movement.

On Thursday, October 29, we invite you to join us for a complimentary Benefit Dinner to hear stories of how LYDIA Home Association & Safe Families for Children are serving thousands of children around the world through faith-based approaches and to celebrate what God is doing.

October 29, 2015

Doors open 6:00 PM

Dinner & program 6:30 PM

Hyatt Regency O'Hare (new location)

9300 Bryn Mawr Ave.

Rosemont, IL 60018

Please RSVP by October 15th.
Questions? Contact Becki Allen by email or call 773-896-3234.

Gifts to LYDIA & Safe Families are used to meet the needs of the children we care for and the families we serve. As a non-profit organization and ministry, we rely on the generosity of those who share our heart and vision. We look forward to seeing you at the Benefit Dinner!

A Fun Way to Support Adoption & Vulnerable Children

Get ready for a 5K or 1 Mile Family Fun Run supporting Project Home Children's Foundation, a non-profit striving to support vulnerable children, including those with special needs, by providing adoption grants, supporting orphanages, educational programs and various activities.

Sunday September 20, 2015 at Darien Community Park (71st Street and Clarendon Hills Rd.) Register by August 31st , receive a free t-shirt

Schedule:

7:00-8:00 Registration AND Packet Pickup (at the North Pavilion off of 71st Street)

8:15 - Warm-ups provided by Right Fit

8:30 AM for 5K participants

8:40 for 1-mile participants

Awards immediately following

Prices:

• 1-Mile Run – $20 per entrant in advance ($25 on race day)
  • $10 for participants under 18 years old ($15 on race day)
• 5K Run – $30 per entrant in advance ($35 on race day)
• $15 for participants under 18 years old ($20 on race day)   
  
  
                             Children under 4 years old are free     
   
   REGISTER HERE
         

 WALKERS, RUNNERS, STROLLERS & WHEELCHAIRS WELCOME! 

 FREE Parking will be available at the Indian Prairie Public Library located on the corner of Clarendon Hills Road and Plainfield Road across from Darien Community Park. No parking will be available along 71st and Clarendon Hills Road or in the North Lot of Darien Community Park.

Additional Location Information Race Day Headquarters: Darien Community Park is located at 7100 Plainfield Road in Darien. The race and registration take place on the North end of the park at 71st Street and Clarendon Hills Road. Race day registration begins 7am.

Holt-Sunnyridge Fundraiser

 

This annual benefit with a twist of the wrist will be held Saturday, September 26^th 6-9pm, Level 257 at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. Proceeds will provide services for birth parents and adoptive families.

Enjoy cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and the chance to make a difference in the lives of adopted children and their families. Meet Phil Littleton, CEO of Holt International and and hear plans for the future work of Holt-Sunny Ridge.

Please RSVP by September 15, 2015 at http://www.holtinternational.org/events/chicago.shtml

Hey Holt-Sunny Ridge Families! We are looking for photos of your family for our upcoming "Game On" Benefit! Please submit your photos by September 14th. If you're interested in having your family photo display on a slideshow during the benefit, please submit them here: http://www.holtinternational.org/submissions/sunny-ridge.php

Adoption Fund 5K Family Fun Run

Bikers for Bethany Event

FOOD and MUSIC Friday, August 28 · 7:00 PM All are welcome! Saturday ride participation not necessary. JOIN the RIDE Saturday, August 29 · 9:00 AM You won't want to miss this outstanding escorted Ride in West Michigan! SUPPORT the CAUSE Bikers for Bethany supports Bethany's mission of finding a loving home for every child. MORE INFORMATION Both events held at: Grand Rapids Harley-Davidson 2977 Corporate Grove Dr Hudsonville, MI 49426

Fundraiser for CASA of McHenry County

The Service League of Crystal Lake invites you to a unique Farm to Table Experience. Some of the proceeds from this event will benefit CASA of McHenry County. For tickets please contact Laura Mills at dlmills5@aol.com or 815-893-0318.

Joint Council Fundraising Gala

 

Cocktails will not be served at 6 pm.

Dinner will not be served at 7 pm.

There will be no program at 8 pm.

Followed by no dancing at midnight.

You will not need a new dress, suit, a trip to the salon, manicurist, a babysitter, a taxi or the hours to pull it all together.

JOINT COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Will not need a venue, centerpieces, caterer or a band.

 

100% OF YOUR DONATION

Goes to the Programs & Services which serve the approximately 

8 million children

Suffering without the love and protection of a forever family.

What? On March 13th, families around the country will stay home with those they love most in support of the world's orphans and vulnerable children. Where? The comfort of your own home! Post, Tweet and Share pictures of your Stay at Home Gala evening! #StayAtHomeGala2015

RSVP today to show your support for those children who are still waiting for their forever family.  RSVP Donate: Don't have the time to participate? We would still greatly appreciate your support to help end the suffering of our world's most vulnerable children. DONATE Share with others: Know someone else who'd like to go? Forward this to someone else. SHARE Thank you for all of your continued support, Jennifer Mellon Interim Executive Director Joint Council on International Children's Services (703) 535-8045 jennifer.mp@jointcouncil.org www.jointcouncil.org Please share your pictures from the night!

Phil Keaggy to Perform at Hope for Orphans Event!

Prepare to be amazed as two of the most gifted guitarists of our generation come together on one stage!

 

The legendary Phil Keaggy and former P.O.D lead guitarist, Jason Truby present an evening of guitar virtuosity on behalf of Hope for Orphans, a 501c3 non-profit organization focused on exposing the plight of orphans worldwide and galvanizing Christians everywhere into action on behalf of the fatherless.

 

All Proceeds To Benefit Hope for Orphans

 

Thursday, October 23, 2014

7:00 p.m.

At the Edge Fellowship Bible Church

1401 Kirk Road, Little Rock, Arkansas

GENERAL ADMISSION – $35

PREMIUM TICKETS – $45

 

Premium tickets allow for early entry and seat

selection at 5:45PM and Q&A time with Phil and Jason.

Tickets will be available at the door

 

 

 

 

BUY TICKETS

hopefororphans.org/benefit