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May 30, 2019OKARCHE – The Center of Family Love announced plans to expand their facility in Okarche after receiving a $1 million grant from the Newfield Foundation, an employee-driven organization of Newfield Exploration Company.
Expansion of the campus will give the CFL the ability to better serve residents and add more residents with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.
“The building will be much like a school, where they can identify what they love, what they’re good at and what their talents are. It will empower them to be on a journey of discovery and growth, and live creative, joyful lives,” Executive Director Debbie Espinosa said.
Day programs for residents will include pottery, Spanish, art, horticulture and Bible study.
Long-term plans for the COFL include new intermediate-care residential homes, an activity center, a larger chapel dedicated to Blessed Stanley Rother and improvements to existing facilities. Additions and improvements will take place in multiple phases.
Following Catholic social teaching has been the mission of the center since its inception, markedly life and dignity of the human person. Espinosa repeatedly expressed the emphasis on giving every individual an equal opportunity to thrive, succeed and achieve goals.
“It gives me such great joy that we have a community of believers who see the beauty and dignity in every life,” she said. “This seed money allows us to enable every individual to become the gift to the world that God intended.”
Sally Linhart is a freelance writer for the Sooner Catholic.
