Building Our Families

06/09/2026

💙 A new opportunity to spread kindness is here… and we’d love your help. 💙

This summer, Building Our Families is honored to partner with First Bank & Trust and KDIO Radio to launch our very first Community Kindness Hunt — a special opportunity to recognize individuals and families in our communities who deserve a little extra kindness, encouragement, and support. Learn more about this opportunity in the link below.

Nominations are open through June 30! ✨

Building Our Families is partnering with First Bank & Trust and KDIO Radio for our very first: Community Kindness Hunt Through June, community members will be invited to nominate individuals and families in Grant County, SD and Big Stone County, MN who deserve a little extra kindness.

06/09/2026

🌟🌟 MAY STATS 🌟🌟

Here’s a rundown of what we provided last month:

💥 124 FAMILIES SERVED 💥
(453 individuals - 241 adults & 212 children)

🛁 904 hygiene essentials 🛁

🪥 693 dental hygiene products 🪥

🌸 81 feminine hygiene products 🌸

👶 105 diapering essentials 👶

🧽 801 household cleaning essentials 🧽

🧻 749 paper essentials 🧻

🪮 117 brushes & combs 🪮

Plus 93 additional items

✨✨ 3,622 ITEMS DISTRIBUTED ✨✨

Average of 29 items per household. We made 86 deliveries and had 38 pickups.

Thank you for your continued support, donations, and the help of our volunteers. We wouldn’t be here without you. 💛🩵

06/09/2026

The food distribution on Monday, June 15th, 4:30 - 5:30. Come to the office of St. John's Catholic Church in Ortonville. This is open to all who are in need.

06/09/2026

🌟🌟REMINDER: Make plans to join us tomorrow night for our next event!! Lots of great information and healthy snacks!! We'll also be streaming via Facebook Live, in case you can't be there!! 🌟🌟

06/03/2026

Thank you to this amazing group of children for their hard work. To our area foster parents-Please stop by to grab a bag if you have children in your home! They are awesome!!

These kids worked hard at VBS to put together 24 goodie bags for Building Our Families! They will go to foster kids when they go into a new foster home. They also made homemade cards to go in each bag to lift the spirits of the recipients and remind them that Jesus loves them.

06/01/2026

💙 A new opportunity to spread kindness is here… and we’d love your help. 💙

This summer, Building Our Families is honored to partner with First Bank & Trust and KDIO Radio to launch our very first Community Kindness Hunt — a special opportunity to recognize individuals and families in our communities who deserve a little extra kindness, encouragement, and support. Learn more about this opportunity in the link below. Nominations are open through June 30! ✨

Building Our Families is partnering with First Bank & Trust and KDIO Radio for our very first: Community Kindness Hunt Through June, community members will be invited to nominate individuals and families in Grant County, SD and Big Stone County, MN who deserve a little extra kindness.

06/01/2026

We got everything. Thank you all!!!

We are in need of queen bed, living room chair, Table and Chairs 1 dresser, Towels and rags, Washer and dryer and microwave.

06/01/2026

Such great community activities at the Big Stone Commons!!!

And just like that, it's June!‼️Please read for some important updates below!

🔓The Escape Room is soooo close... If anyone still has some 90s gems they'd be willing to part with, let's chat. We'll be decorating this week and running some testers.

💃ZUMBA - from the answers on our survey, we're trying some changes, but we need YOU.
- TIME: As requested, we've moved times up:
---- Gold: 9am on Mondays and Wednesdays
---- Regular: 5pm on Tuesdays
- PRICE: We have a summer pass special happening, and it works best with more dedicated people! See pinned post for more details. We're currently at 5 committed participants (and the starting price still beats paying weekly).
---- Starting price: $120
---- 10 committed members = $100 each
---- 20 committed members = $80 each
---- 30 committed members = $60 each

🎨Art & Unwind - unless there are requests, there will be no Saturday sessions. Please know, I'm very willing to do it, just speak up in the Art & Unwind group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Eiisrc8uU/

📚Also, be sure to check out the events on Thursday the 11th! Book Club and special activities for Our Store's grand opening!

🎶And if you haven't registered your kids for FAR Camp or Kids Art Club yet, there are still a few spots left!

For more information on any of these activities, please message us or check out the interactive pdf of the calendar here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DUe0GZQqFvncR4b0fcBCm_aMoCO64DI5/view?usp=sharing