Taking time for reflection allows individuals to become empowered and encouraged as they consider just how many ways God has provided for and intervened on behalf of families in crisis. Recently the volunteers of Neighbors Who Care (NWC) met to reflect on the fruits of their labor in providing for various needs, and in so...
What do the words “freedom” and “independence” mean to you? Maybe it’s freedom in a patriotic sense. Or perhaps it’s the freedom to make your own choices – freedom of religion and speech, to marry who you want and pursue the career path that you want. For some people, like Tanesha*, these words can...
For Father’s Day this year, we at Neighbors Who Care would like to take this opportunity to celebrate all of the good dads out there and share our passion for helping every dad to be a good one. The impact that dads have, positive or negative, goes much deeper than many of us realize, not...
A year and a half ago, a couple of chaplains from our Neighbors Who Care team met with Aneesa, a single mom of two teens, working a full time job during the day and a second job at night to make ends meet. When she received a diagnosis of epilepsy (uncontrolled seizures), her income took...
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 82:3-4) This month, we would like to shine some light on what it is our Neighbors Who Care team actually does. Sometimes, this constantly-evolving network...
The importance of fatherhood is preached in the church but often overlooked in the community. One organization, started in Southern Missouri, called Good Dads (gooddads.com), aims to support fathers in the community to live up to the full potential God has intended for them. Good Dads (gooddads.com) is an effort to address what we...
Thanks for stopping by! For this month’s Neighbors Who Care blog post, we want to share our 2021 Impact Report. If you have ever wondered what Neighbors Who Care does, or if you are already involved and want to see the amazing impact YOU are having, you will want to read this! Thank you for...
Christmas. A time when, we, as Christians, celebrate the greatest gift of all, our savior Jesus, by blessing others with gifts. New Life City Church, a congregation in downtown Kansas City, felt called to adopt three families at Christmas. God, however, had even bigger plans. These families had one thing in common: they were all...
Sometimes caring for a neighbor means looking beyond basic needs and simply giving a gift of fun— We often feature stories about how NWC comes alongside families in crisis by meeting urgent or practical needs. But sometimes being a “neighbor who cares” means seeing beyond what is basic and practical – and remembering that...
Erin, a single mother of three from Shawnee, Kansas, contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. The illness devastated her transplanted kidney and sent her into end-stage kidney failure, requiring Erin to spend a lot of time this year at doctor’s appointments and undergoing weekly dialysis. All the medical appointments and treatments, in turn, made it hard...
