Covenant receives Grant from United Way for CARENET

Through Covenant CARENET, Covenant Community Services provides goods and services to foster children returning home to their families. The mission of CARENET is providing services and resources to foster children returning to their families and youth leaving the foster care system equipping them for successful transitions. CARENET is a partnership with the Kern County Department of Human Services and the Juvenile Court system. This program is supported by the donations of our community and through a grant received from United Way of Kern County, which will enable an increase of services provided to the community...

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Thanks United Way of Kern County!

Life in the foxhole

Foster children are at war. There is no simple way to put it other than that. The reality begs a question. How are we going to help in the war?

I have decided to jump into the foxhole with as many foster children and youth as possible. Fortunately, I am not the only one doing this. There are people, great people like those here in Bakersfield with Covenant, other ministries, and RFKC, that serve and fight for, and with, abused and neglected children. These folks are extending a shot at freedom for abused and neglected kids. We need more freedom fighters!

We need people to stand up all around the world and fight for children that no one fights for. We need people to stand up against a very real enemy that is attempting to rob kids of destiny and hope. We need to make a stand and take back a generation that is sliding away without help.

Jump into a foxhole! Mentor a foster child or youth, start a support group for parents or teens, become a foster parent, collect backpacks for foster kids, collect suitcases for when they move, adopt ... do something! Get in a foxhole friend as a life, and very possibly the next couple generations, depends on it.