According to a recent article published in the The Carolina Journal, on average children in the North Carolina foster system are moved three times per year. Last week members of United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church did their part to make the move a little easier for local children in foster care when the Active Adult Ministry donated 50 duffle bags to the Fostering Families Resource Center.
The idea for the donation was brought to UMMBC’s Active Adult Ministry by member Claudia Turner. Turner said she presented the idea to the group by posing a simple questionL “Did you know that when foster kids move from family to family, many of them have to drag their personal belongings behind them in a trash bag?” she asked the group. Turner said that image of children dragging their clothes and other belongings stuck with the group and they decided to do something about it.
Not long thereafter the group met with representatives from Forsyth County Department of Social Services, who connected the group with Fostering Families Resource Center, a local organization that supports the needs of foster children, their families and welfare agencies across northwest North Carolina…