Wesley Church is honored to be the home of Dwell Orphan Care’s Columbia County Hope Chest. This note from Dwell explains the ministry of the hope chest.

The Hope Chest is Dwell’s foster closet. This is a space for foster, adoptive, and kinship families that receive emergency placement of children to come and gather a week or two weeks worth of clothing and necessities to help them get through the initial trauma and transition. Often when children are placed into foster care, they come with very little clothing and necessities, if they come with any at all. The HOPE Chest will be stocked with new and gently used clothing, shoes and necessities for children of all ages. The HOPE Chest will also supply each child with a duffle bag, backpack or suitcase to carry their new clothing in. This space will serve our foster, adoptive and kinship families in our community so that the children in their care are clothed in love and restored to hope again.