Here’s an incomplete list of the roles Abram Freeman plays on any given day: insurance agent, driving instructor, pastor, executive director, husband, father, coach, mentor, friend, life-saver.

Abe has long had a vision of finding and supporting children with one or more incarcerated parents. He wants to create a loving community that positions each child for success and lifts them up to a better life.

But the work is complicated: there’s no easy way to make it all better. So Abe and his wife Yolande do their work one child and one family at a time. Abe provides career counseling and helps single parents find jobs. His church provides daycare services free of charge, along with annual family trips (also at no cost). As a minister, he becomes part of dozens of families, showing up for kids at school, at home and in between. Abe and Yolande run a food pantry, counsel children in juvenile delinquency and are active in prison ministry.

In short: whatever it takes, wherever it’s needed.

Abe is particularly focused on the mental and emotional health of children, working with more than 100 a year. Abe’s team is trained to look for depression, anxiety and signs of suicidal intentions, and helps children get the counseling and emotional support they need.

The Freemans run multiple businesses to support these ministries. Much of their own income is channeled into the work, though the community Abe dreams of is becoming a reality. When one family is ready to stand on its own legs, it pitches in to help another. Together, they are making sure no child is overlooked.