THE BIG GIVE
NOVEMBER 30-JANUARY 31
Cove Church is on a mission to help people discover hope, develop faith and demonstrate love by following the way of Jesus. One way we do this is through a year-end missional campaign called The Big Give.
Over the years, The Big Give has benefited both local and global organizations, focusing on issues like addiction, poverty and disaster relief.
Since 2006, Cove Church has donated more than $3 million to community and global causes committed to spreading God’s love. This year, our goal is to raise $150,000 between now and January 31, 2026. The funds will be split evenly between our two recipients.
Kids to Love and HopeSprings Counseling are the 2025 Big Give recipients. Money allocated to HopeSprings will directly benefit mental health support for the people they serve, allowing the organization to expand and enhance services. Kids to Love donations will meet urgent foster care needs and provide specialized mental health services and support for children and their families.
OUR RECIPIENTS
The Kids to Love Foundation has grown to become a lot of things since it began in 2004 in founder and CEO Lee Marshall’s garage. Since then, Kids to Love has served hundreds of thousands of children living in foster care, putting clothes on their backs, getting Christmas presents under the tree and giving them scholarships for the next steps of their education.
Kids to Love also operates Davidson Farms, a foster home for girls, the Whitaker Cottage Community for girls aging out of foster care, and our own licensed Child Placing Agency. It is also home to KTECH, a private school that offers job training in manufacturing, robotics, and more to young adults and people looking to make a career change.
HopeSprings is passionate about serving others. While its mission is to support the community as a whole, its team feels especially called to care for those who serve—military personnel, first responders, ministers, missionaries, and foster/adoptive parents. HopeSprings’ counselors provide both individual and marriage counseling to meet these diverse needs.
The need for accessible mental health care is urgent. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people ages 10–24, and law enforcement officers and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty.
Nearly one in four adults with a mental illness reports having an unmet need for treatment, with cost being the most common barrier (52%). Other significant obstacles include difficulty finding a provider (42%), stigma (27%), and lack of insurance coverage. Despite more than one-fifth of U.S. adults experiencing mental illness, access to care remains limited due to provider shortages, inadequate coverage, high out-of-pocket costs, and fragmented care.
HopeSprings’ desire is to make quality mental health care both affordable and accessible. Community support is essential in breaking down barriers such as stigma, provider shortages, insurance limitations, and inconsistent care.
