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...
Author: Veronika Boos (Veronika Boos)
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A Closer Look at Child Welfare
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...
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Restoring Fatherhood in KC
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...
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Neighbors Who Care 2021 Impact
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...
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Delivering Christmas Joy
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...
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A Gift for Tarica
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...
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Struggling Single Mom Finally Gets a Car
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...
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NWC, Mizzou, and RoadWorthy Team Up to Give a Vehicle to a Struggling Single Mom
This month’s highlighted story is that of Sarah – a brave single mother of four who had faced a long uphill journey out of an abusive marriage, addiction and mental health struggles. When we met Sarah this summer, she was in the final stages of her effort to achieve reunification with one of her sons....
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Mizzou Football Team, CarePortal Community Champion
In this blog post, we highlight Mizzou’s efforts to help keep children out of the foster care system by supporting families in crisis through their partnership with CarePortal. Every day, there are nearly a half million children in the U.S. foster care system. Every year, more children are put into the system than leave...
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Creating A Circle of Care Around a New Mom and Her Four Children
It started with a car seat. Neighbors Who Care responded to what appeared to be a very simple-to-fulfill request for car seats from CarePortal. A family new to Kansas City, and also new to the country, had four children: an 11-year-old girl, two boys (aged four and six) and a newborn infant. Not one...
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