Christ Church, Kensington Gathers Comfort Cases for Children in Foster Care

Did you know that 3,000 children in Montgomery County enter the foster care system – EACH YEAR?

They often arrive at night with only the clothes on their backs or a few cherished possessions stuffed in a plastic trash bag. They are often, disoriented, frightened, tired, and hungry. They are not going to a familiar home for an overnight stay or slumber party like many of our children do. They are going for an extended period of time - maybe even for the rest of their childhoods - into the foster care system. Truly, this is a tough transition.

A new organization – COMFORT CASES - has stepped in to ease the transition and ensure that children start off in foster care with basic age-appropriate belongings they can call their own. Comfort Cases provides these children with a duffel bag filled with necessary items such as pajamas, blanket, stuffed animal, book/coloring book, toothbrush/toothpaste, shampoo/conditioner, and other needed toiletries.

As a parish, we are going to make an all-out effort to collect items needed to help Comfort Cases fulfill their mission.

For the month of May, Christ Church, Kensington will be collecting the items that go into a child’s Comfort Case. There will be lists available in the bulletin, newsletter and on the Outreach table. Donated items can be left in the basket in the vestibule.

Rob Scheer, the founder of Comfort Cases, will preach at our 10 AM service on Sunday, June 5th with a “packing party” to follow in the undercroft. We encourage all parishioners, including children and adults to help us fill the Comfort Cases duffel bags. We will need a lot of assistance at the packing party, so please raise your hand to help!

For any questions regarding COMFORT CASES, please contact Lauren Robinson at lerob76@verizon.net. Check the bulletin, newsletter and outreach table for any updates.