July 27th, 2010
Many children across Louisiana have attended Vacation Bible School at various churches recently. Several churches took up offerings during VBS and donated the proceeds to our Home. We are grateful to all of them for thinking of us and for the work these churches are doing in the lives of children across our state.
July 21st, 2010
Arlene Banks, a teacher at Howard School on the Ruston campus of Louisiana Methodist Children’s Home, implemented a voluntary Summer Enrichment program. Mrs. Banks’ students were offered the opportunity to take part in the program from June 1-30 from 8:00-12:00 each week day.
Many students chose to take part in the program’s objective to improve [...]
July 15th, 2010
Our youth in the residential program at our sister campus of the Methodist Home for Children of Greater New Orleans, visited the Outdoor Wilderness Learning Center June 11-14 to experience a taste of the wilderness! Youth and staff participated in various activities such as swimming, boating, mountain biking, fishing, field games, ropes course, maze games, [...]
July 9th, 2010
Welcome to the Real World! Reality City 2010 was a huge success. More than 105 north Louisiana youth in foster care and Office of Juvenile Justice care attended the event.
“All my expenses cost more than I ever really thought!”
“It makes me want to save just in case of unexpected incidents.”
“It helped me learn how [...]
June 28th, 2010
Greetings from your staff and thank you on my behalf of all the boys and girls that you help support on all the campuses and outreach programs of the Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services. Our Mission and value statement serve as a constant reminder of our goals to provide innovative and quality [...]
May 12th, 2010
Almost all of us have heard that question asked from our kids while on the road. Most of us have heard it several thousand times! Usually the answer is, “No, not yet”.
I’ve been asked the “Are we there yet?” question about funding our Vo-Tech Building. The answer is “No, not yet.” [...]
May 5th, 2010
Ratik Kuyana was a guest in the home of DJ and Sandy Allen of Ruston during the month of February. Ratik is of the Masai Tribe from the country of Kenya. While in Ruston, Ratik enjoyed speaking to civic groups and students of all ages about growing up as a Masai and the amazing wildlife [...]
April 29th, 2010
The 4th Sunday in April is reserved each year for welcoming back and celebrating with our Alumni. We look forward to seeing the familiar faces of those who lived here or worked here in years past. The turnout for this year’s event was unprecedented. We had a tremendous response and are so glad we were [...]
April 21st, 2010
From January 11 – February 17, the OWL Center had the pleasure of hosting Bill and Virginia Lee, NOMADS from Minnesota. This is the second year that they have spent time working at the OWL, and as before, they accomplished a tremendous amount. They completed the long list of projects we had for [...]
April 14th, 2010
For 911 purposes, the City of Ruston and the Home’s Board of Director’s have been working to name the streets on our Ruston campus as private lanes.
We are proud to announce the main circle drive on our campus will be named DeVille Lane after current President and CEO Terrel J. DeVille. The drive leaving [...]