“I can’t thank everybody enough, and I can’t seem to get my arms around what’s really transpired over the period of the last couple of years.”
~~Jerry Ubl
God delights to surprise and bless the work of Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries almost daily. Most days, it’s in small and meaningful ways. Then there are those days when we’re blown away by His goodness as He orchestrates through folks who have a heart for Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s ministry.
That was the case in 2018 when Jerry & Maggie Ubl approached CEO and Founder Larry McDaniel to ask if they could donate the funds to help build another home for children. Jerry & Maggie began giving memorial gifts in 2004. We had never asked or even hinted at such an enormous thing as building a home with them. Yet by the summer of 2019, funds were donated and the site was chosen, cleared, and ready for the foundation.
It was just a year ago, at the September 8, 2019 Open House event, that Jerry & Maggie stood with their friends, Keith & Joyce Roth, in front of the future Ubl Home. If you look closely at the photo, you can see one very small stud wall in the background. A symbol of what, in less than a year’s time, would become a lovely, completely furnished 5,500 square foot home. Not only that, it’s already staffed with fully trained Home Parents who are serving new foster children, placed in The Ubl Home in August.
“Every time we were here, staff members would come and talk to us and tell us how the building was progressing, and let us go into the house,” Maggie said. “We just watched the progress of the building.”
The Ubls come by quite often. They love to drive the property and see how everything is going. Maggie said they always leave delighted.
“The kids are so great,” she said. “They come running out from the house and say, ‘Oh my! The Ubls are here!’ It’s like we’re royalty or something. They just make your day.”
It takes a lot of people to make a house a home. Jerry and Maggie said The Ubl Home would not be here without all of the people who worked on it. Jerry said they are overwhelmed by the support.
The Ubls have two grown daughters, four grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren. They have brought their family and friends out to Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries to see the work done here. Jerry and Maggie said they hope many years from now, the home will still be a part of their family.
“Thirty years from now, we’re not going to be here, but this home will be here,” Jerry said. “It’ll serve the purpose of which it was built and serve those kids who are underprivileged and give them the opportunity to be a kid.”
Hockman Interiors, one of our generous Corporate Partners out of Columbia, Missouri, donated more than half of the home furnishings at The Ubl Home. We cannot thank David & Sherry enough for their personal and professional support over the years.
We would also like to thank everyone who gave items and funds to turn our newest house into a home. From kitchen utensils, to toys, and everything in between, this home is prepared to serve children in need because of you.
Tina & Kirkland Burbridge, Home Parents at The Ubl Home, began serving three boys there the day it opened. We receive an average of 1.5 calls per day for children needing placement, and we are confident it is only a matter of time before The Ubl Home is full of children.
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