Their leaders learned creative ways to strengthen children's ministries and enjoyed opportunities to network and learn together. Educational Ministries staff member Becky Crouch, who is also the region's director of Christian Education, gave leadership along with a regional Christian Education Commission task force. . . Only ten miles and a river separate Murrow Indian Children's Home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Ft. Gibson Middle School where a seventh-grade boy shot four classmates. Murrow provides residential and emergency care for Native American children, ages 1 to 17.
Visitors often comment on the high ratio of cottage parents to children.
That degree of intervention and support is necessary, says Brown, to help children deal with the serious problems they have faced. At Black Forest Camp and Conference Center in Colorado, people of all ages enjoy a wide variety of activities along with worship, campfires and fellowship. People see Jesus during woodland walks, through new insights gained in Bible studies, and through new Christian friendships. . . Curtis Park Community Center David Hernandez was only 11 years old when he first went to the Curtis Park Community Center in Denver, Colorado. When his family needed food, the Christian center was there to provide assistance.