• Welcome
  • About Us
    • FHPC Church Center App
    • Connect
    • Who We Are
    • Next Steps
    • Staff, Deacons & Elders
    • Job Openings
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Upcoming Events >
      • Laurie Polich Short
      • World of Winter
  • Ministries
    • Family Ministry >
      • KFB Volunteering
      • FHPC Kids (birth- 5th) >
        • Kids Night Out
      • Students (6th-12th) >
        • Spring Hill Winter Retreats
        • HS MISSION TRIP
    • Worship & Music
    • Church Life
    • Prayer List
  • Missions
    • Mobile Food Pantry
    • Refugee Informational Meeting
    • Refugee Family Housing Supplies
    • Refugee Family -- Volunteer to Help Move In
    • Commodities Packing at FROM
  • Preschool
  • Give
    • Support Our Ministries
    • Stewardship
  • Watch Live
Forest Hills Presbyterian Church

Kids Hope U.S.A.

Picture
One simple thing will make a big difference in the life of an at-risk child: One-on-one, positive attention from a responsible, caring adult.  
​

Kids Hope USA develops these one-on-one relationships through the creation of church-school partnerships that pair church members with at-risk kids in supportive, mentoring relationships. 
Kids Hope USA mentors spend just one hour per week, reading, talking, playing and listening to a child at school. By helping the child feel loved and valued, they help that child to learn, grow and succeed.


Picture

What we do

KHUSA offers churches and schools a proven, award-winning model to meet the emotional, social and academic needs of children. KHUSA programs create one-on-one mentoring relationships between adult church members, willing to give a little time and a lot of love, and at-risk elementary school-children in their community who desperately need loving, caring adults in their lives. Utilizing the existing structures of churches and elementary schools as the framework for these programs, Kids Hope USA creates successful, sustainable and life-changing church-school partnerships. 
In this One Child, One Hour, One Church, One School model, each church partners with a school where mentors from the church spend one hour each week with their “one-and-only student” at the school.
Picture

​Why it Matters

To see the most devastating effects of our current economic distress, just look at the children of those families hardest hit. With higher unemployment, more homelessness, parents working multiple jobs and families struggling just to survive, their children’s basic social and emotional needs often fall into the void. And this void erodes children’s hope for the future, sometimes even rendering them physiologically incapable of learning until their needs can be met. The fact is, too many children were vulnerable even before the recession hit. 
These children need someone who can be present at the critical time in their lives when values are formed, when self-esteem is developed, and when basic academic and problem-solving skills are acquired. Someone who won’t let them down. You can be the one.
Picture

How Can You help

It takes just one person to make a difference in the lives of at-risk children in your community; just one concerned, caring adult to start the ball rolling toward creating a Kids Hope USA church-school partnership, and it can begin with you!
To bring hope into the lives of children who long to have just one caring and faithful adult in their lives, consider taking the first step:  
  • Become a mentor.
  • Become a prayer partner. 
  • Donate so that more children can be reached.

Please email office@fhpcusa.org for more info about this ministry and to be put in contact with the director.

Forest Hills Presbyterian Church
​7495 Cascade Road SE
​Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546
​Church Office: (616) 942-2751
Preschool: (616) 957-3239 
Office Hours: Mon -Thurs 8:30 am-3:00 pm
  • Welcome
  • About Us
    • FHPC Church Center App
    • Connect
    • Who We Are
    • Next Steps
    • Staff, Deacons & Elders
    • Job Openings
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Upcoming Events >
      • Laurie Polich Short
      • World of Winter
  • Ministries
    • Family Ministry >
      • KFB Volunteering
      • FHPC Kids (birth- 5th) >
        • Kids Night Out
      • Students (6th-12th) >
        • Spring Hill Winter Retreats
        • HS MISSION TRIP
    • Worship & Music
    • Church Life
    • Prayer List
  • Missions
    • Mobile Food Pantry
    • Refugee Informational Meeting
    • Refugee Family Housing Supplies
    • Refugee Family -- Volunteer to Help Move In
    • Commodities Packing at FROM
  • Preschool
  • Give
    • Support Our Ministries
    • Stewardship
  • Watch Live