|
2007 Michigan Heart Gallery
Family & Children Services completed its series of
Kalamazoo and Battle Creek presentations
of the 2007 Michigan Heart Gallery with a week-long
exhibition in Battle Creek, January 13 through
The Battle Creek exhibit took place as a
collaboration of Family & Children Services, First
Congregational Church and St. Philip Catholic Church
of Battle Creek, and the Michigan Adoption
Resource Exchange. The January 13 reception
featured selections by the Sojourner Truth Choir
managed by Carolyn Ballard, directed by Pauline
Norris, and accompanied by Jeannette McKenzie.
Speakers at the reception included Alan E. Brown,
chief executive officer of Family & Children
Services; Marvin Austin, a program team leader
with the Battle Creek Committee on Community
Affairs; Debbie
For more information about the 2008 Michigan Heart Gallery, contact the Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange at www.miheart.org.
|
|
January
19 (2008). The 44 children whose images appeared
in that exhibit are among the 4,000 Michigan
children longing for permanent homes and a family to
call their own. At the conclusion of this exhibit,
the 2007 gallery was retired to be replaced by
a new collection of images, which debuts February
14, 2008 at the Capitol Rotunda in Lansing.
According to the Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange
which created the exhibit three years ago, as many
as 75% of the children featured in the first Heart
Gallery were matched with adoptive families while
more than 50% from the 2007 tour are in some stage
of the adoption process.
Reeves,
an adoptive parent who, with her husband, have
adopted three sibling brothers through Family &
Children Services (see front-page feature Battle
Creek Enquirer 1-14-08), and
