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An Urgent Request

An Urgent Request

New Song is at a crossroads. This year our ministry cared for, educated, and discipled nine full-time, residential students in Jesus’ name, and already there are 10 students ready to enroll or re-enroll this fall.

Please think about this–10 students are already lined up to come and live on our camps this fall, and that’s before we host nearly 50 vulnerable children in our camps this summer. On average, 25-30% of our summer campers want to enroll at New Song after attending a summer camp.

So in all likelihood, by this August we will have the potential to enroll 10-15 disadvantaged boys and girls for the school year!

Or possibly, we will be unable to care for any children at all.

You see, we have no houseparents.

Our Director, Bob Schloss, served as a house dad to four boys the entire 9-month school year last year (his wife Lisa worked 50 hours a week overseeing our school and other programs and was unable to join him in the home), but Bob is no longer going to be able to serve in a houseparent capacity this coming school year.

In addition, our other houseparents–who are an awesome couple and served so well–have determined that houseparenting isn’t the calling God has on their lives for the next school year.

We need your help to reach out to your church and network of friends to help us find as many as three excellent houseparent couples.

Many of the 10-15 kids who could enroll in August are returning students. [You can see the joy they had during the last school year by viewing our New Song Leadership Academy 2024-25 Slideshow and by reading these recent news updates.]

CHILDREN ARE WAITING!

Please help us find houseparent couples so that New Song can provide the following life-changing opportunities to kids in need:

  • Personal, trusting relationships with caring adults
  • Peace, love, safety, and fun on our beautiful Brown County campus!
  • Care, and guidance from godly houseparents, teachers, and social workers
  • Daily chapel services which point the kids to our glorious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  • Gospel-centered counseling and discipleship
  • A personalized education provided in the context of a Christian worldview
  • Exceptional, wholesome recreational experiences utilizing New Song’s campus amenities such as our park, pond, creek, trails, and challenge course
  • The extraordinary opportunity to develop a new vision for their lives!


YOUR CHURCH CONGREGATION AND NETWORK OF FRIENDS CAN HELP!

You could make all the difference to children in need by asking your pastor to share our Church Partnership Video in one or more of the ways below (it’s just 2.5 minutes!). Your pastor could:

  1. Play the video at the beginning of an upcoming Sunday morning church service
  2. Share the video or forward this email to the entire church!
  3. Make a social media post to your congregation with a link to the video

CHURCH PARTNERSHIP VIDEO

And, please consider forwarding this email to your network of friends!!! Your friends might know of couples who might want to serve as houseparents or teachers! Those interested can take a look at the Job Description!

THANK YOU!

Thank you for considering partnering with New Song in this very important way. Please feel free to call me at 812-343-6763 if you’d like to talk with me, or you can email me at RSchloss@NewSongMission.org if you have questions about how your church can be more deeply engaged with New Song.

Through the support of friends like you New Song is able to offer comprehensive, life-changing, Christ-centered care for vulnerable children, free of charge to moms who are struggling.

We trust the Lord and we believe that He might use YOUR HELP to provide these important co-workers in the gospel and engage churches in other important ways as well!!!

Please pray that the Lord would send the workers to our ministry, because “The harvest is plentiful…”

Sincerely, 

Your Friends at New Song Mission