Kansas City Maternity Services Adoption Services

Client Testimony

“I was introduced to the Light House in 2007 by a friend with whom I attended church. For the past year, I have participated in the Outreach program on Tuesday evenings and the Light House has been a wonderful blessing to me and my daughter, who turned one year old on June 22, 2008.

“We have had a wonderful sessions learning about caring for and nurturing our children as we developed a close network of concerned parents. We learned from each other through conversations and activities. The Bible study sessions are really uplifting and give you something to think about for the upcoming week. The financial support I have received in the form of clothing, pampers, baby items, food and milk have been extremely helpful. I am so blessed to be a part of this program and would encourage anyone to join.

“Lastly, I must commend the staff of the Light House. The leaders involved with the organization are excellent. They are warm and friendly and I have truly enjoyed working with them each week.”

The Light House is a full service adoption agency in Missouri with experienced, licensed staff. We have over 25 years of experience with nearly 300 successful adoptions. We help connect birth mothers who delivered their babies in Missouri with potential Christian adoptive families who can live throughout the country.

For more information about our full service adoption agency, visit our adoptions page.

Missouri Maternity Home Tax Credit

Your gift to the Light House can reduce your taxes in two ways:

1. If you itemize your annual deductions, you may be able to subtract the entire amount from your total federal taxable income.

2. You also may be able to subtract half the amount of your donation, dollar for dollar, directly from your Missouri tax liability.

How this works: The Light House has 50% Missouri Maternity Home Tax Credits available to those individuals and businesses who donate $100 or more.

If you pay Missouri income tax, personal or business, you qualify to benefit from this program.

To make a Tax Credit gift or for more information, contact Stacey Stark at stacey@lighthouse-inc.org or 816-361-2233 x208.

Consider this Sample Tax Credit Gift

(For a $1,000 gift from someone in a 35% tax bracket)  

Only $90 came out of the Donor’s pocket!

A donor in the 10% tax bracket (who itemized deductions) can make a gift to the Light House and receive back 66% of that gift in tax benefits from the state and federal governments. Your $1,000.00 gift “cost” you $340.00

A donor in the 15% tax bracket (who itemized deductions) can make a gift to the Light House and receive back 81% of the gift in tax benefits from state and federal governments. Your $1,000.00 gift “cost” you $290.00.

A donor in the $25% tax bracket (who itemized deductions) can make a gift to the Light House and receive back 81% of the gift in tax benefits from state and federal governments. Your $1,000.00 gift “cost” you $190.00.

A donor in the 35% tax bracket (who itemized deductions) can make a gift to the Light House and receive back 91% of the gift in tax benefits. Your $1,000.00 gift “cost” you $90.00!

Imagine 1200 people age two weeks to 23 years. Imagine them all in a large auditorium. What a site that would be, 1200 happy, healthy young people 23 years of age and younger.

Think of all the potential in that group, of the doctors, missionaries, teachers, inventors, artist that would not doubt some of them would become.

The Light House has been blessed to see 1200 babies born in our ministry in the past 23 years.

1200 is a lot of babies.

It is a lot of lives full of hope, dreams and contributions to our world.

But 1200 is also the number of babies who were aborted in the USA between the time you ate breakfast and lunch today.

So much has been done….so much more remains. Pray for us and support us as we seek to provide a pathway to life for every unborn baby. For more information about how you can help, click here.

The Light House has partnered with College Coach. College Coach assists thousands of families each year through corporate sponsored relationships and private advising. More than 75 organizations offer College Coach to its employees as a way to retain talent and enhance productivity during a stressful and time-consuming endeavor – the ongoing education of their children.

For the next two years, College Coach is working with the Light House to make college a reality for the clients of the Light House. Through workshops and individual sessions, clients will learn a number of skills to help them prepare and attend college.

Topics Include:

• Achieving Success in High School
• You’ve finished High School. Now what?
• Learn how to apply for college.

The first College Coach workshop was held the first week in December. Present and past clients of the Light House joined together to learn about how to apply for college and were given the tools they need to move their future ahead another step. This is a very exciting time to be a part of the Light House, as we continue to pave the way for these young mothers and help them break the cycle they have learned to accept as reality.