The United Methodist Children’s Home is a multi-facility child- and family-service agency. Our main focus is providing safe and loving homes for abused and neglected children from any county in the state of Alabama and in Northwest Florida. Click here to see a map of our facility locations. Below are some of our recently released news stories. To view all of our articles, please visit our blog.
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Children are heading back to school, and UMCH needs your help to provide school supplies, books, educational materials, school clothes, field trips, academic tutoring, and other basic needs our children may have. Look for your Back to School Letter in your mailbox and meet a couple of our children. You can also read how they are turning a corner and experiencing success on our weblog.
Four of our Gulf Coast Group Home residents attended a week long summer camp at the Blue Lake Methodist Camp in June. Then, all of our Gulf Coast girls were accepted into a special “youth works” program for the month of July, where they learned excellent job skills. To read more about what the girls learned in the program, click here.
UMCH was very sad to learn that Ms. Minnie Richards, a former UMCH Therapeutic Foster Care parent, passed away in February. Ms. Minnie provided a safe and structured home to over twelve therapeutic foster children and provided short term care to countless others. The United Methodist Children's Home remembers her for the tireless effort she made on behalf of children in her care. Read more about Ms. Minnie on our weblog.
On July 14th, retiring UMCH Board member Roy Day was presented with a plaque commemorating his service as chair of the UMCH Relocation Task Force since its inception in October, 2007. When the move to the new headquarters location is finalized, the plaque will be placed in the new conference room which will be called the Roy E. Day Conference Room. To read more about Mr. Day on our weblog, click here.
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Logos
February 5, 2009 -- The UMCH Board of Directors adopted a new logo for our agency. This new symbol of hope more clearly and simply illustrates our mission: To follow the example of Christ by embracing all God's children ... one child, one family at a time. It is available to download in various file formats below. For professional printing, contact us for the correct Pantone color codes.
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