to provide a listening ear for parents who desperately need a "safe" person to talk to,

to help parents work through their initial emotions of shock, anger, shame, grief and pain,

to enable parents to get past focusing on their own suffering so they can begin to understand their children's situations and the confusion and rejection they have experienced much of their lives,

to encourage parents to demonstrate God's unconditional love to their children, and

to provide information and resources in the hope that they will help our church to move beyond ignorance and prejudice and to reach out with true compassion and understanding to those who so often have not been treated the way Jesus modeled.