Adopt A Family
Sharing the gift of Christmas with families in need.
For families struggling financially, exchanging gifts and enjoying robust holiday meals can be impossible. Each year at Christmas, Epiphany comes together via our Adopt A Family ministry to provide gifts and holiday meals to local families in need of assistance. We take referrals from local social service agencies and schools to identify families that need an extra blessing. These families are then “adopted” by our Epiphany family to provide Christmas gifts and meals. Through Adopt A Family, Epiphany generously shares the love of Jesus and serves our neighbors to help build a thriving community, growing in faith, and transforming lives by allowing families in need to focus their scarce resources on essentials and enjoy Christmas with a little less worry.
How You Can Help
*Monetary Donations are accepted online year-round.
*Adopt a Family in November/December: Purchase gifts for households in need. Due to misuse of the form, we are no longer able to provide the link on our webpage. Please see your electronic newsletter for the digital link, or sign up in person on Sunday mornings at either campus.
*Volunteer
This ministry relies on the generous donation of time and energy from many volunteer members of our congregation and community. Help is needed to pick up and unload our bulk order of groceries, set up the celebration center, sort and bag groceries for the families, assist donors during drop off times as required to unload gifts and ensure gifts are placed in the correct location in the church. Our biggest need for volunteers is during our pickup morning to load food and gifts in the vehicles for the social workers.
If you lead a group looking for a service project, we’d love to work with you! Please contact us at Adopt-a-Family.
About the Agencies We Serve
Here’s a little information about some of the agencies we help:
Children’s Services – part of Children and Family Services, the social workers here provide job and parenting coaching to a range of families who may be struggling with addiction, unemployment, homelessness and food insecurity.
Dayton Children’s – this new outreach program identifies families who benefit from additional services to help manage the stresses of children with acute or long-term illness or injury.
Miami Valley Child Development Center – this Head Start program aims to provide support for families with young children to ensure a healthy foundation for learning.
Help Me Grow Brighter Futures – this program also works with families with young children providing critical parenting skills and assistance especially for families dealing with poverty and the associated challenges.
Questions about the program can be sent to Adopt-a-Family.