It was a challenging year like we never expected but through it all Jacob's Mission Center has remained open to serve our most vulnerable. Our foster and adoptive families have felt the strain of COVID-19 for a full year now and with the DCS's payment system changing, many have had additional financial burdens. Unfoturnately, due to the pandemic we were forced to cancel our fall fundraiser which has been essential to our success. For this reason our spring fundraising efforts are even more critical, ensuring that we can continue to serve our ever-growing community.
Thankfully, through our many successful and safe holiday events, parent night-outs and life skills classes, Jacob's Mission Center has been enjoyed by hundreds of children, as well as youth who have recently aged-out of the foster system. Thanks to our passionate volunteers we have not only been able to continue serving our community by meeting many of their basic needs, but the generosity of others has also allowed us to complete the following:
- Poured sidewalks
- Painted the playground,
- Added pea gravel,
- Poured a basketball sports court,
- Laid sod
- Planted trees and shrubs
There is lots of work to be done but thankfully our parent organization, ASA Now, has secured much of the funds and volunteers to begin our Healing and Community Gardens, which are scheduled to open this summer. Now, we are working to raise the funds to pay the needed skilled trades men and women in order to properly complete the work as well as well as begin our Equine Center and continue serving our communities basic needs.