Helping the Needs of Changing Families
Our Executive Director, Julie Abel, was recently interviewed by the Colorado Springs Business Journal regarding her work at Family Life Services. We are so grateful for the CSBJ showing an interest in our organization and taking the time to share a little about who we are and what we do with their readers. We
We recently went on a hunt for a Child and Youth Intern and found treasure! I’d like to introduce the newest addition to our Family Life team, Mark Swiontek (that’s SWAN-tek, for all of you who just furrowed your brow). Mark comes to us with a degree in Sports Management and a huge heart for
Click HERE to sponsor a child (or two)! Any amount helps make camp a possibility for one of our kids. On the donation form, please put your donation amount in the “Restricted Donations” line and type in “Child & Youth” in the next box. Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this awesome and life-changing
Family Life Services is blessed and honored to be a recipient of one of the most practical and helpful programs in the city – TP the Springs. This is a program started by Kathy Peterson who recognized a very basic need of every household – toilet paper! Every year, we receive pallets of toilet paper collected by
We will be celebrating all of our amazing volunteers during National Volunteer Appreciation Week, coming up April 21-28. The support that our volunteer base provides is simply priceless, and the work that we do could not be accomplished without them. If you have ever volunteered with us at FLS, thank you. We love you and
Calling all volunteers! Spring is almost here again. Hurray for sunshine and warmth! And that means we need help at FLS! Our 2.5 acres will be ready for some tender love and care in the next few weeks. Do you have a work group, church group, youth group, family group, people-you-love-to-hang-out-with group? Get in
Coming in as a new volunteer to help with the child and youth program can be very overwhelming. Having over twenty kids on certain nights, running, screaming, and engaging in what I like to call organized chaos, can seem like a lot. But our volunteers step in and take it on. Richard was no different.
It is so hard to believe that 2012 is coming to a close. As we enter these last few weeks of the year, we wanted to give you an update on all the Lord has provided for us and done through this ministry. Click here to read our December Newsletter & Impact Report. We
Consistently personable, flexible, and gracious, Trisha Trosper is not easily rattled. Even under pressure, she offers just the right response for the situation—humble and authentic yet practical and wise. I admire and appreciate how she models stability and self-control in ways that affirm and bless the families and staff here at Family Life Services. I’m
Family Life Services was recently tremendously blessed by Aim Higher Cleaning, a locally owned and operated cleaning service here in Colorado Springs. The owner, Aimee Ankeney-Binkley, generously donated her company’s time to come and clean one of our residential units to help ready it for a new single-mom family who will be moving in to
