Please be in prayer about our Crazy Faith needs:

• Praying that we reach the children with each gift bag, that they’re affected positively and gain an overwhelming understanding of the power of Jesus’ love.
• Praying for an outdoor building sign to visually display our ministry center.
• Praying for assistance/support with our ministry center lease.
• Praying for the use of a box truck once a month for distant pickups.
• Praying for a 20% increase in our sponsorship levels in 2023. 

Immediate Needs

• Items for the Summer Event (due 4/8) 
• Flip Flops and Sandals (from youth shoe size 11 through Adult sizes)
• Sunglasses, Lawn Games, Sports Balls, Frisbees
• Small items for our children for their birthday gift (playing cards, sports balls, fidget toys, lotion, silly putty, etc.)
• Click here to host a summer Toy Drive (due 4/8)
• Click here to host a summer Food Drive (due 4/8)
• Fundraising items for our events (new small gift items, gifts cards, bottles of wine/alcohol).
• Someone that can help us with packaging solutions for our events, specifically a connection for bags for multiple purposes (hygiene, snack, gifts).
• Click here to shop our ever-changing Amazon Wish List

Cinco de Mayo Trivia Night

May 5, 2023 | 6pm

@ Social 45/Jimmy O's

20805 South LaGrange Road

Frankfort, IL 60423

Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo and join us for our first in person Trivia Night of 2023! Grab a table, invite your friends and enjoy a night out.

Click here to download a printable flyer for your office, church, friends and family.

Sponsors are needed to make this event successful!

• Click here for more information on the sponsorship opportunities available

We need your help!

Our goal is to have 40 more of our children sponsored this year. Five times a year, over 1,100 gifts will be provided to children and we need your help and support.

A child living with homelessness, poverty, or the working poor is more than an economic issue; it affects children holistically (emotionally, physically, and spiritually). Lack of necessities and daily encouragement causes low self-esteem, a dissolving of trust, a decline in academics, and a loss of hope.

Please help us by sponsoring a child for $35/month or $420/year. All new sponsors in 2023 will receive an Adventures with Jesus book.

Thank you for your continued investment in the life of a child in need. You are changing lives!

You can write to your child at any time and can even add a special gift if you choose. To include something for the Summer Gift Event, please drop it to the ministry center by April 10th or you can send anything directly to us for your sponsored child.

If you send to us directly from a site (such as Amazon) email information@myjoyfulheart.org for details on how to address your package so we are clear who it is for. Thank you!

Calling all schools, scouts, small groups!

Can you help with a 2023 Toothbrush drive? Hygiene products are given out 4 times a year to over 1,100 children. We need your help collecting! This is a great and easy opportunity for children to get involved and for families to learn more about who we are. If you can help, we have already created the flyers for you to download here.

Our volunteers are truly what make the day-to-day operations successful! Many of them are here each week helping and helping individualize the gifts for the children. We are so gracious for each and every one of them and all the hours they spend helping us.

The following volunteers have reached amazing milestones in 2023:

Nancy Turney (pictured) 479 hours

Martha Dice 284 hours

Gina Therrien 229 hours

Sharron Besteman 219 hours

Sheryl Matt 204 hours

Volunteer Hours

M-Th 9:30-1:30. 

If you are interested in volunteering, send an email to office2@myjoyfulheart.org to sign up for a new volunteer tour and to get more information.

Thank You to the Lee Family of Frankfort and Ms. Reed’s Classroom in Evergreen Park for the bookmarks for our next two events!

Thank you to the children of Rogus Elementary School in Frankfort for donating the money from your Smencil sales to us and for the extra, fun pencils to pass along to the children. We love when kids help kids. Thank you for allowing us to benefit.

Thanking all the families that attended the MLK Family Serve Day.

We have another opportunity on:

Family Serve Day

(President's Day) Monday 2/20/23 from Noon-1:30pm

for your family to serve together.

All those 7+ are welcome with a parent/guardian.

It may be small, but it is mighty!

Decorated for the seasons by an extremely talented volunteer, The Tiniest Boutique has many items for sale and they rotate often.

Finding Jesus games are on sale for only $10. What a beautiful game created exclusively by our Founder, Diane Carroll, and sold only here at My Joyful Heart. Stop on by and see for yourself!

My Joyful Heart has been invited to be a part of a new Engaging Speakers launch in Frankfort. This is a wonderful opportunity to help entrepreneurs, small business owners, speakers, authors, and non-profit leaders speak their way to more business.

If you’re interested in attending monthly meetings where guests and members join together to learn, network and grow, send an email to Erin at eburns@myjoyfulheart.org for more information.

Reminder we accept donations from the community of new or items in excellent condition. 

Our drop off hours are M-Th 9:30am-1pm

My Joyful Heart

9981 West 190th St

Mokena, IL 60448

Donations are accepted in the back of Suite I. Thank you!