- Leads on a safe building, church wing, former childcare space, shared-use space, or other possible home for Haven of Rest.
- Grant research, grant writing, fundraising, and community introductions
- Nonprofit governance, childcare licensing, legal, finance, and insurance expertise
- Financial gifts and in-kind professional services for readiness work
Get involved
This gets built by people who live here.
Foundations of Love is young, and that is the best time to join. There is real work to do before Haven of Rest opens its doors, and more once it does.
Where help is needed
You do not have to be a childcare professional to be useful.
- When we open
Caregivers and childcare staff
Experience with infants or school-age children, and a willingness to work the hours most people won't.
- Now
Trades and hands-on help
Electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, and the hundred small fixes a building needs before it can be licensed.
- Now
Board and advisory
Nonprofit governance, early childhood education, finance, licensing, and legal.
- Soon
Meals and supplies
Cooks and people who can help organize donations of needed childcare supplies, food and meal supplies, learning materials, and sleep supplies.
- Now
Fundraising and events
Help us tell this story well and raise what it takes to open the doors.
- Always
Prayer
We ask for it plainly, and we mean it. Write to us and we will send you what to pray for.
Current needs list
Find the thing that makes you say, “I can help with that.”
This list will change as Haven of Rest moves from planning to opening. Right now, these are the clearest places to step in.
- Cooks and people who can help organize donations of needed childcare supplies, food and meal supplies, learning materials, and sleep supplies
- Childcare equipment, sleep equipment, kitchen items, learning materials, safety equipment, and other program supplies identified as we prepare to open
- Electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, skilled labor, and renovation materials
- Volunteers to sort, inventory, transport, and prepare donated items
- Background-checked caregivers and overnight childcare staff
- Meal support, family welcome, transportation coordination, and ongoing supply teams
- Partners who can contribute resources, services, connections, expertise, or sponsorship
- Prayer partners who will continue covering children, families, staff, and decisions in prayer
Ways to support
Money is one way to help, not the only way.
- Financial gifts
- Donations of money toward a home, licensing, staffing, care, and family support.
- Grants
- Support from foundations, corporations, government, or community funding sources.
- In-kind gifts
- Goods, services, equipment, materials, professional expertise, or skilled labor.
- Volunteers
- Time and skills offered before opening and as the ministry grows.
- Partners
- Organizations or businesses contributing resources, connections, services, expertise, or other support.
- Prayer — Spiritual Support
- Prayer for God's guidance, the children and families, the team, and each next step.
For organizations
Partner with the ministry.
Overnight childcare is not only a family issue. It is a workforce issue, a church issue, and a community issue. Employers lose good people over it. Congregations have space and hearts for it. Tell us what your organization can offer — resources, connections, services, expertise, space, volunteers, or something we have not thought to ask for yet.
Churches
Host, sponsor, or send volunteers. If your building sits empty overnight, it may be exactly what we are looking for.
Employers
If your staff works third shift, sponsoring overnight care is a direct investment in keeping them.
Community organizations
Refer families, share the need, or collaborate on resources that reach the same households we do.
Looking ahead
Overnight care is the beginning, not the whole plan.
Our long-term vision includes family-centered programs and resources beyond childcare — practical support, encouragement, and connection for families in the stretches between crises. We will name those programs here as they take shape, rather than promise them before they are real.
Volunteer
Tell us what you can offer.
Time, a skill, a truck, an evening a month — tell us what is realistic for you and we will find where it fits.
Ready to help?
Open the short volunteer form and tell us what is realistic for you. Your response will be saved securely for the ministry team.