About Us

We started Comforting Hands outreach through our church; Ellsworth Wesleyan Church, because we saw a need in Antrim and Charlevoix counties. Our daughter and son in-law, David and Tami Kromer have fostered 40 children and adopted 4 while bringing up and loving their 3 bio children. We patterned Comforting Hands after Clara’s Hope;  clarashope.org an organization they started after the loss of our granddaughter Clara; who was born with no brain, only a brain stem and the outpouring of help that was given to them when they adopted her. Upon her death they felt that all the help they received should be the way foster care and  adoption should be. We believe everyone can do a little bit to help foster and adoptive families achieve success.  

We have had many of these children pass in and out of our lives and learned to give them the much needed love they needed for the time they were in our family. We learned it is not about us, it is about the children.

Even though we are far past the age of fostering and adopting we wanted to help our local families achieve success. We feel we can bless them and help be the hands and feet of Jesus by connecting the community to the foster and adoptive families in the area.

“Don’t find a lifestyle, find a way to serve as you move through life.”
Phil & Sally Dieck