Every child deserves the comfort and stability of a bed of their own.
Not just blankets on the floor.
Not a couch that reminds them their stay might be temporary.
A real bed, in a real room, in a home where they are safe.
In 2025, the Fostering Hope Closet provided 64 mattresses and 31 beds to children in foster, kinship, and adoptive homes across the region. Because when a placement call comes in, a child should not arrive to an empty room.
The need was real.
And this community answered it.
Along the way, neighbors stepped in to help the Closet meet that need. Community Bed Building of Lake of the Ozarks, volunteers from Hillcrest Baptist Church, and Sharing and Caring Foundation all helped make sure children arriving in new placements had a bed to sleep in.
And then something even bigger happened.
The community refused to look away. They rolled up their sleeves and started a Sleep in Heavenly Peace chapter right here in Lebanon to make sure every child has a bed.
The Closet has been humbled to help carry that need wherever it showed up. Now even more hands are stepping in to carry it.
No child should sleep on the floor.
Welcome to Lebanon, Sleep in Heavenly Peace.
In the Ozarks, this is what community looks like.
Partners
This community is built by the people and businesses who show up, not because they have to, but because they belong to something. These are the neighbors who make everything possible.
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