The brightly colored flowers lined up in pretty rows in the Hope Grows greenhouses have more stories to tell than most. The same can be said for the well-manicured lawns around the Palmer Home campus and the deep red poinsettias purchased from Hope Grows at Christmas. On summer mornings at 8:30 Monday through Thursday, a […]
Summertime! The word that ignites little thrills of joy in the heart of every school-aged child in the country, filling their mind with dreams of summer camp, baseball games, afternoons by the pool, and staying up late. We all probably have similar memories of our own regarding summer memories- days spent at the local lake […]
According to the 2010 U.S. Census data, grandparents are the primary caregivers in 4.9 million families in the country. That’s a significant number, but it’s suspected to have grown given the economic situation our country has faced over the past six years. Grandparents take over caring for their grandchildren because their children can no longer […]
From the beginning, it has been a goal of Palmer Home for Children to keep sibling groups together, and hopefully, eventually reunite them with their family. For the past four years, Palmer Home has also been a part of helping bring two adult brothers together for one week out of the summer. Ray and Steve […]
As Terri Igleheart shared in a previous blog, Palmer Home caregivers do all the things other parents do—the work is just multiplied by 8! When you take into account the fact that children often arrive with physical, educational, emotional and spiritual delays resulting from their past, the sheer volume of work in a 24/7 caregiving […]
Rain poured down, washing away roads and triggering thunderstorm warnings across northeast Mississippi the day before Palmer Home’s ground breaking ceremony in Hernando last month. The skies cleared just in time for Drake Bassett, President and CEO of Palmer Home for Children, to survey the muddy mess left at what was to be the site […]
If you were to take I-59 North out of Birmingham, AL and drive for a good 100 miles or so, you’d come to the town of Mentone, AL just before you crossed the Georgia state line. It rests peacefully upon Lookout Mountain, in the southern foothills of the Appalachians, with a population well under 500 […]
Every year the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) hosts a global summit intended to bring together individuals and organizations all over the world who uphold the cause of the orphan. It’s a two-day conference with invitational workshops and collaboration in the days preceding the summit. This year, Palmer Home attended the conference in order to […]
Cyndi and Justin Walls never imagined they would be serving as caregivers to needy children in Mississippi. After college graduation, they served together with a college ministry in Wisconsin- the same organization that previously introduced them both to Christ. Eventually they both felt God moving them in a new direction. When a friend referred them […]
On an uncharacteristically warm winter afternoon, the Treblemakers, Palmer Home’s Children’s choir, gathered on the front steps of the historic Lindamood building on its Columbus campus to record their performance of the Star Spangled Banner. The group was “auditioning” to sing at a Mississippi State University athletic event. Maroon and white were the colors of […]
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