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Our Mission
Community by community, the Lullabye Foundation partners with schools and others to identify, lift up, and “level the playing field” for children and youth, enabling them to have experiences which would otherwise – for them – be only a dream.
Lullabye serves children both in Iowa and Illinois!
Updates on Our Activities
January 24, 2021
Dear Lullabye Kids and Loyal Supporters,
On behalf of the Lullabye Foundation I want to thank Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in St. Joseph, IL. for their incredible gift of $1,171.85. As it has been for all of you, 2020 was a difficult year for Lullabye. We usually are able to set up several fund raisers each year, but because of the pandemic we were unable to set up any.
Add to that, we were unable to work with any schools this year. Much of the year schools struggled with uncertain conditions and uncertain schedules and no school extracurricular activities for children to participate in.
For a while, I thought Lullabye might have to close.
Then Prince of Peace entered. My oh my did it enter! Not only with the above mentioned gift of $1,171.85, but also with a very substantial gift which came in additionally from one Prince of Peace family. God was not done with Lullabye Foundation!
But where to put all that money when we could not work with the schools? We had always worked exclusively with schools! And then the answer came in a number of surprising ways.
1) Dennis and I were very moved by a presentation Pastor Andy Jones of Prince of Peace made to the congregation about the work he and his wife Joy do with the Malawi Orphan Project. Our ears particularly perked up when we learned that many of these children needed school uniforms, school supplies, and even school scholarships to continue with their schooling. Lullabye Foundation could still work with a school even though it was half way around the world! And so we now have gone international!
2) Also we are in the process of vetting another Orphan School located in the Phillipines. Another international school that can use our help! We will let you know if and when this happens.
3) Our Lullabye Chapter located in Northern Illinois also was able to help out a family in need following a tragic fire which totally burned down this family’s home and took the lives of two elementary school girls who attended one of the schools that Lullabye has helped over the years. We also made a generous donation to the Fox Lake/Round Lake Rotary Club which does a great job every year helping needy kids in the area to have a Christmas to remember.
4) In Atlantic, Iowa, where schools were open for most of the year, Lullabye purchased new shoes for special needs kids in one classroom for Christmas.
5) We also gave a large donation to CASA of Champaign County which presently serves 380 children. Many of these children are in foster homes and appreciate when their community remembers them.
And so it goes! There are plenty of children who need a little help to get by! And so again, thank you so much for your kindness in helping us help children in need! We are so very grateful.
Sincerely,
Pastor Sally M. Meyer, CEO Lullabye Foundation
