Donate Now - Change a Life

In Montgomery County, Texas, it costs on average $1,300 to serve a child. It costs over $2,500 to recruit, train and support a Child Advocate who not only speaks for the child, but whose mission is to find the child a safe, permanent, nurturing home for that child.

Often we donate to a cause but seldom do we hear of the direct impact that our donation makes on the lives of others. Because the money you donate is used in Montgomery County, Texas, our 144 Advocates all have stories of how your generous donations helped save children from losing their childhood, from a life of fear and neglect and from just being another ‘piece of paper’ on someone’s desk.

Recently one of our Advocates received a poem from a 14 year old boy for whom she is Guardian ad Litem. This boy has been seriously abused from age 4. He has been moved countless times from relative to relative while his parents struggled with drugs and a criminal lifestyle, ending with both parents being in prison for the last 4 years.

Having worked with CPS and the Court to have the boy placed in a therapeutic facility, the Advocate visited, phoned, wrote and encouraged the boy who really just ‘wanted to go home’.

Sadly. there is no 'home' as such to return to. Also, as the boy requires intense therapy to help him deal with the abuse and build good life skills, the Advocate helps the boy focus on things he can control while he heals. Together they set some short term goals and a series of rewards for when he achieves each goal. After two months, the boy achieved his first goal and earned the pair of basketball shoes that they had agreed.

The week after the shoes were sent, the Advocate received a poem from the boy written by Larry S Clark in 1993. He had taken it from his pegboard and sent it to her by way of a thank you. No note, just the poem. It’s called The Warrior.

This morning my thoughts traveled along   To a place in my life where days have since gone   Beholding an image of what I used to be   As visitors were stirred and God spoke to me

He showed me a Warrior, a soldier in place   Positioned by Heaven, yet I saw not the face   I watched as the Warrior fought enemies   That came from the darkness with destruction for me

I saw as the Warrior would dry away tears   As all of Heaven’s Angles hovered so near   I saw many wounds on the Warrior’s face   Yet weapons of warfare were firmly in place

I felt my heart weeping my eyes held so much   As God let me feel the Warrior’s prayer touched  
I thought “how familiar” the words that were prayed   The prayers were like lightening that would fade

I said to God “please the Warrior’s name   He gave no reply, He close to refrain   I asked “Lord who is broken that they need such prayer?”   He showed me an image of myself standing there

Bound by confusion, lost and alone   I felt the prayers of the Warrior carry me home   I asked “please show me Lord, this Warrior’s, so true   I watched & I wept For Mother ….THE WARRIOR was YOU

1993 Larry S Clark

You can also help our children. There are many ways to give, financially, in kind, your skill and your time. Funding is critical for us to be able to speak for these children and to help find a safe, permanent place they can call home. So please Donate Now and Change a Life.