Welcome to the Birch Community Services (BCS) Program Guidelines
Applicants: Please read through the entire page to prepare for your intake appointment.
Existing Participants: Please review as needed.
We understand that BCS is a new experience for many; it is exciting to make life changes and move forward toward sustainability. During your time with BCS we hope you find relief, encouragement, growth, and, most importantly, hope. Please join us as we partner together to move toward your goals.
Program Guidelines: Table of Contents
Onboarding
Program Requirements:
- The primary person in the family/household is employed or actively looking for employment
- Willing and able to meet with a financial counselor to discuss goals
- Willing and able to complete our 6-hour re$tart financial course
- Willing and able to pre-pay monthly program dues
- Willing and able to volunteer for a 2-hour volunteer shift each month, including a closing shift every 90 days
- Willing and able to shop on a routine (weekly, or every other week) basis
All applications must be made via the BCS website. There is currently a 2-3 month waitlist to join the program, and each application will be reviewed individually. The application page can be found here: https://www.birchcommunityservices.org/join-the-sustainable-families-program/
Intake Appointments
You will be invited to schedule a virtual intake appointment after you reach the beginning of the waitlist.
Our cancellation policy for intake appointments is:
- To reschedule, the appointment must be canceled 24 hours in advance. If it is canceled less than 24 hours before the intake, it will be considered a missed intake meeting and may be rescheduled.
- If an intake appointment is missed, an applicant may reschedule.
- If an applicant misses two intake appointments, they must re-apply for the program and re-join the wait list.
Multilingual Program Participation
While we are honored to serve people from many ethnic backgrounds, all shoppers, the primary contact for the household, and all volunteers, must be fluent in English. This enables clear communication regarding limit signs, answering questions, addressing other shoppers, etc., while shopping and volunteering, allowing BCS to serve people well by creating a safe environment for all.
We are excited to announce that we now offer financial literacy counseling in Spanish with Matías Castaño. This allows program participants to discuss personal finances in a more comfortable and confident way.
In addition to counseling, we offer our cornerstone financial course, re$tart, in Spanish. Please reach out to your counselor if you are interested in attending the Spanish version of the course.
We look forward to continuing to expand our program to include education and counseling in more languages in the coming years.
Financial Literacy
A letter from the team...
Welcome to BCS!
We are excited for what awaits you during your time with us. We know this is probably a challenging season in your life. You are joining a community of people walking with each other through hard times. While you are here we want to encourage you to be as strategic as you can with the time you have with BCS.
From weekly shopping trips you will create increased monthly savings for your family. We are excited to hear your plan for these savings. Whether it’s catching up on bills, paying off credit cards or medical bills or creating a savings account, we are here to help.
After one year, an average BCS family has decreased their debt by $7,000 and increased their savings by $1,000. How much you use Birch is up to you!
As families experience relief from some of the financial pressure it can be tempting to “splurge”. For example, though we want families to have appropriate rest and relaxation times (vacations), this is not the time to take bucket list trips.
We ask you to schedule the first meeting with your financial counselor after you’ve been at Birch for 1-2 months.
Welcome to a community of people who, just like you and us, are committed to better financial health.
“Birch has relieved the stress of our food bill, which overflows into all areas of life. It has been such a blessing. And the financial wisdom and direction has been an incredible resource that will benefit us for decades.”
– Brittany C.
Financial Literacy Program
The Financial Literacy Program here at BCS is composed of 5 stages, with accountability check-ins and resources provided along the way.

1:1 Counseling Sessions
After completing and signing the participation form found in your welcome packet you will meet with one of our Financial Literacy Counselors. Meetings are through Zoom or in person by request. This first meeting will help establish your financial goals and plans for the future. You will update us every six months with a detailed financial form, and then you will have a follow-up meeting with your Financial Counselor to discuss your current financial situation and goals.
All participants meet with a Financial Literacy Counselor when they begin the program and then twice annually, or more often if requested. They are here to help all families reach their financial goals in a way that makes sense for them. Families are encouraged to reach out to their counselor at any time.
re$tart
All participant families are required to take re$tart, our 4-session finance course, within their first year on the program. This course was developed in-house, specifically with BCS families in mind. It is offered virtually (via Zoom) on weekday evenings. You may sign up for upcoming classes online using the link on our BCS Participant Portal. Couples are encouraged to attend together. Participants aged 13 and up may attend, as well as any other adults in the household.
Classes
After completing re$tart, participants can take our specialty classes. These classes are offered throughout the year and cover a variety of topics such as time management, estate planning, retirement and investing, homebuying, and paying for college without debt. These classes are held virtually (via Zoom) on weekday evenings. You may sign up for upcoming classes online using the link on our BCS Participant Portal. Participants aged 13 and up may attend, as well as any other adults in the household.
Meet the Counseling Team

Dino Biaggi
Director of Financial Services
Dino joined our staff in 2015 and has degrees in financial planning, psychology and theology. He oversees our Financial Literacy Department, as well as meeting with families and teaching several of our classes.

Tina Birch
Financial Literacy Counselor
Tina holds an MBA from Oregon State University. She provides regular financial counseling sessions as well as teaching several of our classes.

Katie Diehl
Financial Literacy Counselor
Katie joined BCS because of her deep interest in personal finance and a desire to help others. She meets with families for financial counseling sessions as well as teaching re$tart.

Matías Castaño
Financial Literacy Counselor
Matías meets with families for financial counseling sessions as well as teaching re$tart. His AFC certification is in progress.
Shopping
Shopping Hours
- Monday, Wednesday, & Friday
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Last shopper accepted at 6:00 p.m.) - 2025 Holiday Closures:
- New Year’s Day (Wednesday, January 1)
- Memorial Day (Monday, May 26)
- Independence Day (Friday, July 4)
- Labor Day (Monday, September 1)
- Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 27)
- Black Friday (Friday, November 28)
- Christmas Day (Thursday, December 25)
- Shopping hours will be extended to 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM during weeks with a holiday closure.
Shopping
- Signing Up
- Shopping slots open 6 days in advance of the scheduled time.
- Sign up for a shopping slot through our participant portal each week.
- You may only sign up for one shopping slot at a time.
- Shopping Guidelines
- When you arrive at the warehouse, scan your QR code to check in, and wear the printed nametag while shopping.
- Shopping time is limited to 50 minutes (due to limited parking and shopping carts)
- As you shop, stay with your cart and follow the arrows on the ground. Do not revisit areas; new product is brought out throughout the day so everyone has a good selection of things to choose from.
- Please read all limit signs and observe the arrows indicating the limit section, even if you’ve seen the limit sign before. Limits can change from week to week. If there is an item that has no limit, take only enough for your family for that week. The items in the BCS warehouse are for participant households only. Please only take what those in your household can use—not neighbors, extended family, etc. This includes household items, boots, and anything else in the warehouse.
- Once you have exited the warehouse, do not re-enter the shopping area.
- Nothing you receive from BCS may be sold.
- Children in the Warehouse
- If needed, children aged five years old or younger are only allowed in the shopping area in a front pouch, backpack, or strapped into the seat of the shopping cart at all times.
- If your child is old enough that none of these options will work, please arrange for them to be somewhere else while you shop. Due to our insurance, young children are not allowed in the warehouse. Please be cautious in the parking lot as well, as many vehicles are coming in and out throughout the day.
- Shopper Qualifications
- All shoppers must be at least 16 years old (as a primary shopper), or 14 years old (as a secondary shopper/helper) with prior training.
- All shoppers must be able to speak English.
- One person per household may shop unless the household has an exception arranged prior to shopping (2x shoppers, overflow cart, and medical helpers).
Shopping Schedules
- Normal weekly shops: 1 shopper (16 years old or older, trained to shop), 1 cart, and observing listed limits.
- 2x Shopping
- 2X shoppers shop every other week and take double the limits.
- A 2X shopper may go through twice, bring a second person of 14 years or older to push a second cart, OR shop once and take a sign with them allowing them to take twice the limits. The shopping is to be done only for the participant’s household and only by the trained shopper.
- If a 2x shopper misses their shopping week, they may shop two weeks in a row, and then return to every other week.
- If distance or your family’s schedule makes it difficult to come every week and you are interested in shopping every other week, for the same program dues, please contact us at bcs@bcsi.org to change your account.
- Make-Up Shops
- When a family misses a week of shopping, their next shop may be their normal shop combined with a make-up shop. You need a make-up shopping sign from the check-in volunteer that allows you to take double the limited items.
- You cannot “save” a make-up shop; it must be completed the week of your return. Please let the check-in desk volunteer know that you are doing a make-up shop when you check in for shopping.

Danner Boots
Boot Policy
Danner Boot Co. graciously donates their returned boots to BCS. Their donation is based on the criteria that they believe our participants or agency participants are not in a financial position to purchase Danner Boots; therefore, the company is not losing any potential sales. For that reason, we have set up some guidelines to distribute these boots. Please note the requirements and restrictions below:
- If you or another in your household needs boots, and if you are eligible to shop, you are eligible for boots. Boots are only for those living with you who are listed on your participation form. DO NOT give boots to friends or to family not living with you. Under no circumstances may the boots be sold. Anyone discovered doing this will be removed from the program immediately.
- It is understood that all boots have been returned to the factory, and therefore have some sort of defect. Some defects are obvious, while others are so slight, we can’t see them if we look for it.
- Boots are marked in a way that prohibits them from being returned to any Danner Outlet for return or refund.
- None of the boots have an applicable warranty.
- If you receive a pair of boots that do not work for your needs, you may bring them back to the boot area for return or exchange.
- Each family member is eligible to receive one pair of boots in a calendar year (as needed). Your family/household may receive multiple pairs of boots per day, but only 1 pair per person per year. If you have already received your pair and have need for another, please contact the office to apply for another pair.
- Children under the age of 10 are not allowed in the boot area.
- Please do not forget to write a thank you note to Danner!
The boot area is open on selected days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. as long as we have a boot check-in volunteer available. You may choose a pair of boots before or after, but not during, your shop. You are welcome to come on a boot day other than your shopping day if you need to.
2025 Boot Area Schedule
If we have full volunteer coverage, the boot area will be open to you and your children (age 10+) from 10 am to 6 pm on:
Program Dues
How to Pay
- Program dues are currently $80/month.
- We have a pay-ahead policy.
- Your $80 program dues are to be paid by the end of the month for the next month. For example, February’s program dues must be received by January 31; if the dues come in on February 1 or later, they are late and constitute a missed commitment.
- Three missed commitments may be grounds for removal from the program.
- We accept cash, check, recurring ACH, or debit card.
- Cash: We are happy to accept cash at the office.
- Check: Checks may be paid by mail or by the check box at the shopping check-in window.
- Recurring ACH: (recommended) Recurring ACH transactions can be set up through the Participant Portal payment link. They can be scheduled for the 15th or 25th of each month.
- Debit Card: Pay through the Participant Portal. All debit card transactions will include a $3.00 transaction fee.
NSF Fees
- If a check, debit, or ACH payment bounces or is rejected by your bank, we will charge a $15 NSF fee.
- You will be required to pay the rejected program dues before you shop in the month they were for.
- The $15 NSF fee must be paid by the end of the month it was incurred.
If you have any questions about payments, please email bcs@bcsi.org.
Volunteering
Participant Volunteering Commitments
- All families/households are required to volunteer a minimum of two hours per month.
- You may not “bank” hours for future months
- The two hours must be two consecutive hours, not split into multiple shifts or among multiple volunteers
- The 2 hours are noted on your account at the beginning of the month.
- Sign up via the Participant Portal for a volunteer shift under the name of the person in your household who will be completing the shift.
- A closing volunteer shift is required every 90 days.
- A garden volunteer shift is strongly encouraged in your first year in the program.
- Having more than four outstanding volunteer hours will result in a pause of shopping privileges until they are at or under 4 outstanding hours.
- Volunteer for the shifts that you have signed up for.
- If you are going to miss your volunteer shift it is important to cancel your shift. To cancel, please go to the signup button, and click cancel by the shift you desire to cancel. This not only allows another participant to volunteer during that time but it will also prevent you from having a missed commitment show on your account!
- Warehouse volunteer shifts must be cancelled at least 2 hours before their start time, or the shift will be considered missed.
- Specialty volunteer shifts must be cancelled 24 hours before their start time.
Warehouse Volunteer Guidelines
- When You Arrive:
- Volunteer check-in is at door #3.
- Use the tablets and the QR code sent by email to log in.
- Print a nametag.
- If this is your first time volunteering, let the warehouse staff know.
- Wait by door #6 for a warehouse staff member to begin volunteering.
- While Volunteering:
- Please do not be on your phone (unless an emergency arises) or use earbuds/headphones while volunteering.
- Wear shoes that cover your entire foot. No sandals or crocs.
- We suggest wearing warm clothes in the winter, as the warehouse can get cold.
- Always give equipment the right of way. Never expect operators to see or hear you. Do not run quickly in front of machinery or try to “sneak by.” Please step back and make eye contact with the operators.
- Absolutely no one may operate power equipment without authorization. Equipment operators must be trained and authorized by our employees. This includes power jacks, forklifts, and the baler.
- Wear a back brace when lifting heavy items. We have them in the warehouse, just ask.
- We do not allow pocket knives in the warehouse. Please ask an employee for a box cutter.
- Gloves are available at volunteer check-in at door 3.
- You may not shop for items or put a hold on items while you are volunteering.
- There are cold helper beverages in the cooler located on the side of ‘George.’ Feel free to take a beverage during or after your shift.
- After Volunteering:
- Let a warehouse staff member know you are leaving.
- Return any gloves, coats, box cutters
- Log out on the volunteer tablet at door #3.
- As a thank you for your time and service, please help yourself to a volunteer gift after you have finished your two-hour (or longer) shift. Please ask a staff member if you are unsure where the volunteer gift areas are located.
- Gifts may be chosen from the volunteer gift area in either the warehouse or in the cooler.
- You may choose from what is available. If you don’t find something, you can’t look the next week.
- If you volunteered in the garden, you may choose a volunteer gift during your first trip back to the warehouse.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Monday 6:00 am to 8:30 pm
- Tuesday 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Wednesday 6:00 am to 8:30 pm
- Thursday 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Friday 6:00 am to 8:30 pm
The signup is linked on the participant portal.
- Let the warehouse staff member know when you check in, and they will give you a job that is well suited for your needs.
- Email us at bcs@bcsi.org if you have any additional questions/coordination needed.
Your friend may apply on our website to volunteer, but their volunteer shift will not count towards your family’s commitment.
We love to celebrate with you! If you or your partner has had a baby, send us an email and we will waive a month of volunteering for the month that the baby is born.
Depending on life circumstances, we may waive volunteering for single parents. Please talk with your counselor if you have questions about your volunteering commitment.
- Any adult or teen (14 years and up) living in the family household can fulfill the family’s required volunteer shift.
- Every volunteer must sign a release form. Release forms are on the participant portal.
- When a teen volunteers for the first time, they must have a release submitted and a participant adult must volunteer with them. After their first shift, the teen may volunteer alone.
Every family is required to complete one closing shift every 3 months. Not completing your required closing shifts will result in shopping being put on hold until it is completed. Having volunteers in the warehouse is vital when it comes time to clean up and prepare for the next shopping day.
- Every family is encouraged to do at least one garden shift per year.
- The garden is open between March 1 and October 31.
- All questions regarding volunteering at the garden can be directed to our Garden Volunteer Coordinator, Charis, charis@bcsi.org.
- All garden volunteer shifts can be scheduled online via the warehouse volunteering signup.
- Volunteer time is logged onsite at the Garden.
Our specialty shifts include working in check-in, picking up products from our donors, working in the boot area, videography/photography, and various professional skills.
If you are interested in working a specialty shift regularly, please apply here.
Leaving the Program
Removal from the Program
The Review Committee reserves the right to remove a family/household for the following reasons:
- Three late payments
- Missed commitments, including but not restricted to:
- Refusal to take or not attending the financial class
- Refusal to complete volunteering commitments
- Refusal to meet with or missed appointments with a Financial Literacy Counselor
- Stealing or selling BCS product. You may not sell or redistribute anything you receive from BCS. Selling or redistributing items received from BCS will cause your family to be removed from the program immediately.
- Behavior that doesn’t reflect BCS’ Cultural Values
- 30 days without shopping or communication
We do offer an appeal process. If this is your desire, please send your written appeal to bcs@bcsi.org.
Compliance with the guidelines demonstrates your commitment to success at BCS. Noncompliance indicates that this program is not the best fit for your family/household at this time.
Our Cultural Values
Since 1992, we strive to be good stewards of everything that we have been entrusted. Every member of Birch Community Services, including our employees and participants, agrees to practice our eight cultural values:
- Relationship-Focused. We create value for others in a supportive community that fosters inclusiveness, true belonging, and acceptance.
- Respectful. We model a culture of honesty, grace, and humility.
- Trustworthy. We are unwavering in our dedication to serve reliably, and dependably.
- Teachable. We promote combining self-awareness, ambition, curiosity, and guidance in striving toward growth through success and challenges.
- Grateful. We express appreciation for the opportunities provided and the benefit of our community.
- Safe. We empower responsibility to take a knowledgeable, deliberate, and mindful approach to a holistically safe environment.
- Solution-Oriented. We encourage a community that works humbly and collaboratively to provide creative strategies to problem-solving.
- Celebratory. We pause to reflect on successes and setbacks and rejoice in our collective growth
The House of David: Birch's History
In November 1995, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Suzanne Birch, wrote the following letter with her late husband, Barry Birch, as a reflection on the origins of what is now Birch Community Services.
The Story behind our home is bittersweet and unforgettable. We share this with you to encourage you in your struggles, during those dark moments when God seems to be so far away.
When Barry and I were married nine years ago, we made a commitment to God and each other to be debt-free. This resulted from the struggles we had been through, each of us carrying lots of baggage into our relationship from past bad choices. This included a substantial debt that I had remaining from extensive problems during my divorce, and we proceeded to chip away at that debt. God graciously gave Bear a huge jump in his income, and within ten months $13,000 was paid in full. As soon as that was paid, Bear’s business (he was self-employed) took another turn, and we were back at our previous income level. We then began to save for a home, as our no-debt commitment included the purchase of a home. As we saved $500, houses went up $2000. It seemed like a hopeless endeavor, and at times we questioned the commitment made years before.
My brother David was living in Portland during this time, working as a nurse. He had bought a split-level home and moved my mom into it to give her security. He enjoyed being a home owner and was forever fixing and updating the house. He encouraged us to do the same, and as we explained this bizarre commitment we had made, he shook his head in disbelief. After all, no one tries to buy a house for cash; it’s a poor use of one’s money and impossible anyway. When we explained that our God, who had capably supplied the money to get us out of debt in those first ten months, was also capable of supplying whatever it took for a house, Dave was convinced we had stepped off the deep end. He had no personal relationship with Christ and had not experienced His mercy and love in his own life, as we had. Dave humored us but also respected our decision and our faith in this powerful God. He had married in 1989, and after several years, the marriage was deeply troubled and floundering, and Dave was struggling. He took a job working as an air nurse for Critical Air Nursing, based out of San Diego. He would fly south for two-week stretches, working different air transports for critically ill patients from one hospital to another. He loved it, but the two-week-on, two-week-off shifts didn’t help his crumbling marriage, and in early March 1993 Dave came over to talk. He had filed for divorce, a mutual agreement between him and his wife, and he was feeling pain and frustration. He believed he would head in a different direction, move to Seattle and get his Physician’s Assistant degree. He was hurting and we hurt for him. We told Dave about the comfort and support God had given us in our times of pain. Bear and I shared the hope of eternity in Christ and the faithfulness of Him. We encouraged Dave to seek Him out and Dave listened openly, asking questions and nodding in agreement. I gave him a book I had just finished, “A Poor Man’s Proof for the Existence of God”, and Dave, who always teased us before, willingly took it to read during his next two-week shift. When he left, tears in his eyes, the three of us hugged and reaffirmed our love for each other. It was a very special time. Several days later Dave called. He was leaving town the next day but wanted to let me know he had been reading the book and found it easy and enjoyable.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH…we had unintentionally started a gleaning program. A friend had told us of bread going to waste at different organizations. We knew of three or four families who could use it and began picking it up on an on-call basis from Union Gospel Mission. Soon UGM gave our name to the Blanchet House, who gave our name to NW Medical Teams, etc., and those three or four families gave our name to their sisters who were out of work and their neighbors who were struggling. We had buns on our sofas, bread in the entry way, boxes on our dining room table. We had no garage in our rental house and no place to put the donations we received. We were excited and perplexed and began to pray about the direction God had for us. What could we possibly do? On March 3, 1993 I was particularly confused and frustrated and asked God to make it perfectly clear to us what He wanted. When I got home from work, I shared that prayer with Bear, and he read to me Oswald Chamber’s devotional (My Utmost for His Highest) for that day:
Feed my Sheep. . . John 21:17
The message was clear and to the point, and as we read Chamber’s explanation of the verse, we knew we were right where God wanted us, no matter how unreasonable it seemed at the time.
Friday, March 12, was a beautiful spring morning, and my mom’s call didn’t fit the scenario. She was hysterical and panicky. . . the plane was lost. What plane? Critical Air’s flight from Bermuda Dunes, California had not returned to base the night before. They were sending search planes over the desert. Bear went to pick up my mom, and we spent the morning in prayer and fear. We sat in the kitchen and I opened my Bible, asking God for a word – – not necessarily whether Dave was dead or alive but a word of hope.
My reading finally led me to Deuteronomy 32:10-12:
In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him:
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them on its pinions.
The Lord alone led him:
no foreign god was with him.
What did this mean? I could see in my mind the eagle, pushing her babes out of the nest and seeing them fall, only for her to swoop down and catch them before they hit ground. Did God swoop down and catch Dave out of the plane? Was he there with Dave?
At 2:00 we received the call: the plane had been found. It was a non-survivable crash, and the pilot and two nurses aboard were killed. They had delivered their patient and were on the way back to base when the tail fell off the plane, causing an immediate desent, crashing and rolling into a ridge of mountains along the desert edge. We were devastated and began to deal with our grief. Our biggest agony was in not knowing Dave’s eternal status: did he call out for God in those last moments of his life? Had he read the book we gave him and made a commitment on his own? I prayed that God would give me peace in NOT knowing and the grace to be content knowing God was in control. It was difficult, and there seemed to be no answers. We made plans for the memorial service and began to see God’s hand. Dennis, Dave’s insurance agent and good friend, a Christian, called with his consolations. He had been sharing Christ with Dave, and he, too, was concerned. We found the book I had given to Dave, with no marker. Had he finished it? My oldest brother, Sheldon, called on Sunday. Had I spoken to Dennis? Did he say anything? Shel explained that Dennis hadn’t told us everything. A week before Dave was killed he had visited Dennis and changed the beneficiary on his life insurance to me. We were stunned and overwhelmed. We wanted Dave back. It almost made the hurt worse.
We made it through the memorial service and began tying up loose ends. The insurance company needed a death certificate, and we requested one. We began praying about God’s plan for Dave’s money. The responsibility was awesome. We believed that Dave’s insistence for us to buy a home was provided for in this gift. We knew that he would want his mom taken care of and the rest of his family to benefit also. As we prayed, God gave us direction, and we made plans.
When the death certificate arrived, Bear and I stood together and read it line by line. David A. Edner…date of death, March 11, 1993 … place of death, Chiriaco Summit, Eagle Mountain…
Did God swoop down and save David for eternity? We cannot be sure, but we believe He has given us that hope, and our blessed Hope is what sustains us. There are no coincidences with Him.
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1
You have seen the fruits of David’s gift to us. As we looked for a home to purchase, we asked God for a specific list of things,
if He approved:
- Four bedrooms (one for an office, one for a guest room)
- Two bathrooms
- A fireplace
- A garage for gleaning
- A purchase price of $80,240 (The balance we had left after we spent the rest of Dave’s money with God’s direction)
He gave us:
- Five bedrooms (an extra for Andy)
- Three bathrooms
- Two fireplaces
- An extra-wide insulated garage
- A family room for entertaining
- A purchase price of $80,500 (Okay, we went over a bit.)
You can see that God provides abundantly and beyond what we could hope for. That is why we do not worry about the warehouse situation. When He is ready, and if it is His plan, we will have it.
The sign above our front door gives credit to those who have made our home, and your gleaning environment, possible: to my brother David, who we love and miss, and to Jesus Christ, descended from the line, or house, of King David, our Provider and Everlasting Hope. Praise Him!
And we know that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope – the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
Titus 2:11-14