REACHING OUT TO LONELY KIDS: A Guide to Surviving and Loving the Children in Your Neighborhood
(A Revised Edition of Nobody’s Children)
Valerie Bell
• Are you a “Kool-Aid Mom”—the woman who ends up with most of the neighborhood’s kids most of the time?
• Do you know a child who is starving for adult attention?
• Are you looking for a ministry you can have right in your own backyard?
• Are you concerned about the behavior of your children’s playmates?
It’s tough being a Christian family these days. Neighborhoods no longer reflect small-town values, and Christian parents often wish they could build a moat and pull up the drawbridges of their homes to shelter their children from outside influences.
But Valerie Bell calls us to let down those drawbridges—to welcome hurting and troubled neighborhood children into our homes just as Jesus welcomed them into his presence. The very kids who cause us the most trouble may be the ones Jesus most wants us to bless.
Jesus loved little children. But now he uses his people—his hands and eyes and ears—to reach out to children and nurture them. In this extraordinarily moving book, Valerie Bell shows Christian families how—in very simple ways—they can make a difference in the life of a hurting child.
