Case Study: Missouri Baptist Children's Home

Red Rocks Church (RRC) is a non-denominational church located in multiple locations throughout the Denver-Metro area. Red Rocks strives to be one church in many places with campuses in Golden, Lakewood, Littleton, Denver, and Arvada. Red Rocks’ first campus, where it originally started, is located in Golden, Colorado. The church’s mission statement says that their prime objective is, “…to make Heaven more crowded, by welcoming prodigals home.”

Pastor Fred Dyess had retired after serving as pastor for thirty years and Director of Missions for the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans for fourteen years. The Lord called him out of retirement to start a new church. Bro. Fred checked with the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association Director of Missions, David Brown, to learn what areas the association had targeted for a new church and what was needed. He was told that the Louisiana Baptist Convention required a new church to have a sponsoring church. Dr. Roger Dunlap and Macedonia Baptist Church gladly voted to be our sponsoring church. The Louisiana Baptist Convention and the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association each gave Victory a budget supplement of $500 per month decreasing

MSTT met with Jake at the Valley Youth House to see how he was doing. Jake stated he is doing pretty good there because he has a lot more freedom there then he does at home. When asked what he means by that Jake explained his mother trys to control everything he does and at the Valley Youth house he as some freedom. MSTT and Jake discussed what his plans are once he returns home. Jake stated he does know at this time if he wants to go home. Jake explained Cody from CYS came to speak with him and explained to him he could be placed in a indenpedent living situation. Jake stated this is something he may be considering it because he's not sure if he wants to go home. MSTT will continue to meet with Jake and assess how he doing and develop a plan

On Tuesday, March 27th, the Shiloh Children Ministry will be taking a field trip to go bowling and dinner at Chili’s in place of Ablaze on the 28th. Families will meet at 4:45p in the Shiloh parking lot. I will take my car and the kids will ride with to the Heritage Lanes bowling. We will play 1 game (about 1 hour) and head to Chili’s around 6p. Dinner should take about 1 hour and we will head back to Shiloh. We should be at the parking lot around 7:15-7:30 but I (Abby) will have my phone on me to relay any time changes and updates.

Missouri Baptist Children’s Home was established on April 1, 1886, and has been serving children, youth, and families since that time. Through a restructuring of the corporation in 2001, MBCH Children and Family Ministries (MBCHCFM) was organized as the service delivery agency for Missouri Baptist Children’s Home for a total of 16 years in business as currently constituted. MBCHCFM is licensed by the State of Missouri as a child caring and as a child placing agency, and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. Before the restructuring of the corporation as noted above, Missouri Baptist Children’s Home has been accredited since 1977. Long before accreditation was required for state contracts, our agency was committed to reaching the highest standard of care and made the decision to become accredited through COA.

Bethany Lutheran Homes was founded by a group of Lutheran pastors and other caring community members who saw a need for senior care in the community. Pastor Dale Ruosch, founding member once said, “We need a home for the aging to live in peace and dignity where Christian philosophy will serve as our guide.”

A) MSTT will assist Jessica and Priscilla in developing a sequence regarding the last incident

The Marion County Children Service Board offers a variety of services to the community. The offer intake assessment, this is where the referral for services begin. A trained staff member will assess the calls received and then make a determination whether services are needed or not. They also provide protective home-based services, once an investigation is complete, and it is determined that services are needed, and the child can remain in their home, without the risk of abuse, the caseworker will then provide counseling and case management to the child or children and their family. The caseworker may also provide additional referrals to other agencies. MCCSB also provides placement and substitute care services, this occurs when the determination

The Pratt family has started an approved Foster Home where they recently accepted Marjia into their household. Marjia’s mother, Ali, is serving time in prison for selling drugs and physically abusing her only daughter. After CPS has taken Marjia out of the unsafe household of her mothers, Marjia continues to have night tremors and fears that her mother will find a way to regain custody. Since Marjia has moved into the Pratt household, she has developed high anxiety and depression The Pratt family is a Christian African-American home and begins taking Marjia to organized church events. The foster parents, John and Lisa, thought religion would be a curable outlet for Marjia to relieve her anxiety and depression. However, Marjia has grown up in

Wayland Baptist University, a place where you become a pioneer in excellence, creates teachers at the top level and teaches important skills for your chosen career.

In the fall of 1980, the Congregation of Calvery Community Church, led by Pastor Dr. Carl Godwin, founded Parkview Christian School. Under the leadership of Bob Winebarger, the school began as a Kindergarten through eighth grade school. “Those were glorious days, Winebarger relates, “as we saw God’s hand moving to provide a Christian School to the residents of North Lincoln. Within two years of opening, the school expanded and began to offer a K-12 academic program. Continuing to expand to minister to families in Lincoln, a preschool and daycare were opened in the fall of 1991. Parkview Christian Schools now operates three separate locations for preschool and daycare for young children. A few years ago, Parkview Christian School stepped out from the umbrella of the church and became a separate non-profit entity.

Pray for Lodi Community Church (Ohio), as they are seeking a new pastor for their congregation. Please pray with them as they seek God to direct them through the process.

The customer value proposition in this case is that the agency is the oldest child-serving nonprofit in the state of Florida, who provides a necessary, high quality service to those clients identified as being in a significant time of need. The agency also makes access to the services available to the clients at no charge to the families through Medicaid billing. The statement of advantage is emphasized by again considering the continuum of care offered and level of wrap-around services that are provided by the agency. This creates an environment of excellent communication in treatment planning, and allows a client to receive all necessary services through one place, minimizing treatment errors or oversights.

Pray for Rev. Craig Smith, who is experiencing high fever and much pain while dealing with an infection on his colon. Pray for God’s healing touch in Craig’s life.

Texans are being short changed by the proposed Medicaid cuts. Legislature has told the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) that they must cut $350 million from the Medicaid funding over the next two years. In order to abide by the legislature’s demands, the HHSC has proposed cutting the reimbursement rates for pediatric physical and occupational therapists on average by 10 to 25 percent. And pediatric speech therapists would face cuts of 16 to 27 percent. Many feel that these cuts to the therapy payments have little to no effect on the services that children with disabilities receive. These individuals say that following the orders will assist in reducing the therapy rates and will reduce the practice of excess therapy. On the opposing side, it has been expressed that cutting therapy funds that the State of Texas provides has the potential to cause individuals within the pediatric population to lose crucial therapy services. The planned cuts have the risk to jeopardize the potential of our nation’s young. The cuts also make many agency’s that currently provide occupational, physical and speech therapy vulnerable to closures and lay-offs.