Blake and Chrissy Cogdell
Co-Founders
If you have found us here, you have probably experienced the loss of a child or know someone who has. We are so very sorry for your loss. We are honored to be able to hold space for your shattered heart as you move forward on your healing journey. A journey we know we will travel forever this side of heaven.
Our Mission
To provide tangible, financial and emotional support as we walk with families of child loss from the trauma of the initial loss through aftercare regardless of the age of the child.
My last touch birthed a vision for First Touch Family
In loving memory of Christopher Barrow.
In 2016 we lost our son Christopher. As expected, it turned our world upside down. After years of muddling through our grief and learning how to let great grief and great joy reside in the same space we felt God calling us to establish First Touch Family.
Our prayer is that we would be able to support families as they navigate their own loss and that we would bring hope and healing to their journey. A journey that only someone who has lost a child can truly understand.
Save The Date
3rd Annual Remembrance Dinner
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Courtesy of John Fletcher, SVS Marketing Solutions
Support Families of Child Loss
With the help of our donors and volunteers First Touch Family has been able to provide financial assistance to families who lose a child. Often times we immediately think of funeral expenses and providing food when a family loses a child and those things are important, but there is so much more. Sometimes it is as simple as helping pay living expenses because parents lose income while they are off work after the loss of a child. Medical bills can become a burden. Daycare for siblings and counseling services for the family are sometimes needed. We want to be sensitive to what families may need to begin healing and we believe being able to help alleviate some of the financial burdens allows them space to begin that journey.
Blessing Box Ministry
As parents who have personally experienced child loss, we know there is nothing anyone can do to take away the pain of a family who has experienced the loss of a child, but we can let them know we care and that they are not alone. Whether the loss occurred yesterday or twenty years ago it is a loss families will live with for a lifetime.
Blessing Boxes are a sweet way to acknowledge the loss and pain and let families know you are thinking about them.
Do you know a family of child loss?
Our Blessing Box Ministry is solely dependent on donations.
Would you like to make a donation to our Blessing Box Ministry?
The average cost of a Blessing Box is
$85.00 plus shipping making the cost of each box
approximately $100
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