Florida United Methodist Children's Home

The Florida United Methodist Children's Home does a lot more than just provide children a place to live.

We ensure they get good medical care, nourishing food, proper clothes, and education. We give them counseling, lots of love, attention, and a positive lifestyle. We help them develop their skills. And we work hard to share with them a childhood that's as normal as possible under very difficult circumstances. But the most important thing we give them is hope: we teach them about Jesus Christ and how He died for them so that they may have Everlasting Life. In short, we provide for their physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs.

The Children's Home has two Residential Care facilities, commonly called "campuses." We have our Central Florida Campus in Enterprise and our North Florida Campus in Madison County. Our Central Florida Campus features an Independent Living Program and Emergency Shelter.

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18

Our campuses serve school-age boys and girls in group-living, family-style residences, which we sometimes refer to as "homes." Typically, there are bedrooms for one or two children in each, a family room, living room, dining room, kitchen and laundry room. Each residence accommodates up to ten children at a time.

Some of the children who live with us come from homes where: 1) they were victimized by neglect or by physical, sexual or emotional abuse, (2) they were caught up in a family crisis, dysfunction or turmoil, (3) they were abandoned or orphaned, or (4) their parents/guardians could not care for them, for any number of reasons.