Children & Youth
Downloads Available: Children & Youth Annual Report Form |
Beverly Eads, Chairman
Penny Mazonna, Co-Chairman
The Children & Youth Annual Report Form is available for download here.
This completed form should be mailed to:
A PLEDGE FOR CHILDREN
We pray for children
Who put chocolate fingers everywhere,
Who like to be tickled,
Who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants,
Who sneak popsicles before supper,
Why erase holes in math notebooks,
Who can never find their shoes.
And we pray for those
Who stare at photographers behind barbwire
Who cant bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers,
Who never counted potatoes,
Who are born in places we wouldnt be caught dead,
Who never go to the circus,
Who lived in an x-rated world.
We pray for children
Who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
Who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish,
Who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money,
Who cover themselves with band-aids and sing off key,
Who squeeze tooth paste all over the sink,
Who slurp their soup.
We pray for those
Who never get any dessert,
Who have no safe blanket to drag behind them,
Who watch their parents watch them die,
Who cant find any bread to steal,
Who dont have any rooms to clean up
Whose pictures arent on anybodys dresser,
Whose monsters are real.
We pray for children
Who spend all their allowance before Tuesday,
Who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food,
Who like ghost stories
Who shove dirty clothes under the bed, and never rinse out the tub,
Who gets visits from the tooth fairy,
Who dont like being kissed in front of the carpool,
Who squirm in church or temple and scream in the phone,
Whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.
And we pray for those
Whose nightmares come in the daytime,
Who will eat anything,
Who have never seen a dentist,
Who arent spoiled by anybody,
Who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep,
Who live and move, but have no being.
We pray for children
Who want to be carried
And for those who must,
For those we never give up on
And for those who dont get a second chance
For those we smother&
And for those who will grab the hand of anybody
Kind enough to offer it.
~~ Ina J. Hughes