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Help support children and families in the Des Moines area.
Thrive Ministries is a FAM, or Family Advocacy Ministry, mobilizing the church to care for vulnerable children, adoptive and foster families, and struggling families.
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Thrive Ministries achieves this in several practical ways:
- Praying diligently and consistently
- Raising awareness around the needs of vulnerable children
- Recruiting & equipping families to care for at-risk kids
- Serving families in crisis through Care Communities
- Advocating on behalf of families and vulnerable children
- Ministering to families to help meet emotional and spiritual needs
Interested in volunteering with Thrive Ministries?
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There is an eternal impact when churches care for the vulnerable. We’ve partnered with the Wildwood Collective, which provides step-by-step methods and training for local churches to support foster, kinship, adoptive, and struggling biological families. “Family Advocacy Ministries” take many forms, but all have one thing in common: lives are changed! Together, we can bring hope and healing to our community. Click below to learn more about how you or your church can join the movement.