Give online

Thank you for giving online to the Children’s Home. By using your credit card and filling out the form on the link below, you can make several choices about your gift. You can give to the general budget, designate a project, or make a remembrance gift. You can make a gift honoring or remembering one person and notifying one person or family of the gift, or you can split a gift to honor several individuals or notify several individuals of remembrance gifts. Please be sure to include all contact information including complete name and address for each person honored and/or notified. Thank you again for your gift.

Ways to give

The Children’s Home depends on the generous support of individuals, churches and organizations. There are many ways to give:

Make a donation to our general budget or one of our ongoing projects. Here are some examples of how your donation might be used:

$25 – A teen receives her first Bible personalized with her name
$60 - A father in Short-term Family Housing can get to his new job because of a one-month MARTA Breeze card
$95 – A young adult is set up in his first apartment with household necessities
$120 – A foster family enjoys a night out together
$200 - A student learns teamwork and builds confidence playing on an athletic team for one season

Donate items from our needs list (printable PDF)

Make a gift in memory or honor of a loved one

Give a gift of any amount to a specific fund:

Art Fund (lessons and supplies for interested young people)
Campership Fund (summer camp experiences for youth)
Campus Beautification Fund (removing dead trees, preserving at-risk trees and maintaining grounds on our historic Decatur campus)
Cottage Night Out Fund (allows cottage groups a meal away from campus)
District Office Fund (to establish offices in the Athens-Elberton, Griffin and LaGrange districts)
Foster Care Activities Fund (extracurricular activities such as sports, camps and music lessons for children in our foster homes)
Magazine Subscription Fund (materials by age and interest appropriateness)
Foster Care Specialized Tutoring Fund (extra academic help for children in our foster homes)

You can mail or bring your donations to UMCH, 500 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur GA 30030. Gifts may also be made online by clicking here.

For information about giving to our Endowment Fund, contact Richard Puckett.

The United Methodist Children’s Home is a 501(c)(3) organization. Gifts to the United Methodist Children’s Home are tax-deductible.

Buy cards with our youth’s artwork

Our youth create beautiful artwork during their therapeutic art sessions, and we have created three cards with their masterpieces. A pack of 12 cards contains four of each design. All cards are blank on the inside. Each 12-pack of cards is $15.00, plus $3 S/H per order. All proceeds support the ministry of UMCH.

If you would like to purchase a pack of cards, mail your check made payable to UMCH to 500 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur GA 30030. Please indicate it is for the notecards. If you have any questions, contact Scott Young.

Make a planned gift

Plant a lasting legacy at the Children’s Home.

Theologian D. Elton Trueblood said, “People have made at least a start at understanding the meaning of life when they plant shade trees under which they know full well they will never sit.”

A planned gift to the Children’s Home is like a growing tree that will provide shade and shelter for thousands of children and families. It is a legacy that you will leave — a legacy of caring for “the least of these,” and offering shelter to children and families who need it most.

What is “planned giving”?

Planned giving is a term that, quite simply, refers to gifts that require some planning. The gift can be planned for soon, like stock or real estate, or for the future, like an insurance policy or bequest in your will.

With a little planning, your gift to UMCH can help achieve all of your philanthropic, financial and estate planning goals. Planned gifts can benefit you by providing charitable income tax deductions, increasing your income and reducing capital gains taxes, allowing you to pass more on to your heirs while also providing a meaningful perpetual gift to UMCH. Planned gifts are a way you can make a lasting impact on the work of the Children’s Home.

There are several planned giving options you may wish to consider. Keep in mind that these are intended as suggestions; we urge you to discuss your plans with your financial and legal advisors before taking action. Here are some of the planned gifts you can make to UMCH:

monetary bequest
real property
gifts-in-kind
life insurance
publicly traded securities (stock)
charitable remainder trust

For specific questions on which planned gift options are right for you, please consult your attorney and other advisors. For more information on making a planned gift to the Children’s Home, please email Dr. Richard Puckett, or call him at 404.327.5838.

In planning a charitable gift to the Children’s Home today, you are sowing the seeds of a legacy that will last for generations. You provide the strong roots that keep our ministry strong, as we care for children and families now and in the future.

Plant your legacy today.

Children’s Home Angels

The Children’s Home Angel program is a way for individuals or groups to enrich the lives of our children and youth. A Children’s Home Angel “adopts” the children or families in one of six of our programs: Group Care for teens, Foster Family Care, Whitehead Hall/Kerr Cottage intake centers, Independent Living, Transitional Living or Short-term Family Housing. You or your group provide items for ongoing needs, one-time needs as they arise, and unexpected “extras” that can brighten our children’s day.

The Church and Community Relations Specialist will send a brief email update approximately every other month with current needs of our children, updates on life at the Home, and how your gifts are being put to use. You can also contact the CCRS at any time for updates.

Here are some types of gifts that would be useful, as well as a few examples:

games and activities, such as board games, magazine subscriptions, art supplies
school supplies, such as pens, notebooks, heavy-duty backpacks, calculators
toiletries, such as beauty supplies, toothpaste and toothbrushes, hair products, diapers
activity money and passes, such as Blockbuster or AMC gift cards, Georgia Aquarium or sports game tickets, fast food or ice cream gift cards
clothing and cottage décor, such as clothing store gift cards, quilts, bed linens, pillows, towels
larger kitchen and home items, such as furniture, TVs, video game systems, pots and pans, and small kitchen appliances like toasters and microwaves

If you are interested in becoming a Children’s Home Angel, contact Alina Crews.