The Because Challenge is an 1.27 mile experience for the whole FAM to participate in that replicates challenges kids face in foster care.
BLUE JACKET PARK
2501 General Rees Avenue
Orlando, FL 32814
Save the Date:
MARCH 2, 2024
Registration opens at 8:00 am
The Challenge starts at 9:00 am
“Because kids belong in families….”
The child welfare system across the United States is in crisis. In Central Florida alone, there are 1,544 kids who have been removed from their homes and placed in foster care, and 162 of those kids are not even in families. Beyond that, 50% of foster families quit after the first year due to the strain on the system and the lack of support the majority of these families experience.
These statistics are tragic.
Put yourself in the shoes of these children and teens for a moment. As a child faces a family breakdown, they experience placement into an unfamiliar home, disruption, and too often, disruption again – the beginning of an unrelenting and unending cycle. Sadly, many children age-out of foster care without a permanent or lasting sense of family.
Our goal is to break the cycle of foster care and ensure that kids are in well supported families.
We invite you to take on the challenge to raise support for families loving kids from hard places.
When you register or create a team for The Because Challenge Experience, you not only get to participate in challenges many of our kids face, but you also are raising money to supply what they need most––strong, loving families.
What makes it a challenge?
We invite you to accept the challenge of loving kids from hard places. Each challenge or ‘disruption zone’ will represent a disruption or slow down that a child experiences throughout their time in foster care. Similarly, support zones represent the difference supportive individuals can make in the lives of these kiddos.
EVENT SPONSORSHIP
Anticipating over 1,000 people to participate, this is your opportunity to show how your company truly CARES for vulnerable children in Central Florida.
The Because Challenge 2024 Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor
Champion Sponsors
Advocate Sponsors
Community Sponsors
The Theune Family
Titan Properties
Challenge Zone Sponsors
Our Sponsor of FUN
Together, we’ll raise $350,000 to support vulnerable children in Central Florida.
The money you raise will change the lives of vulnerable children, helping to end the cycle of foster care.
Commission 127 will invest 100% of donations into our mission of strengthening and supporting foster, adoptive and biological families in crisis by creating community and equipping churches to launch and lead Family Advocacy Ministries.