As Eastern Heights Baptist Church in Jeffersonville continues to contribute, southern Indiana will receive a new Safe Haven baby box to a Jeffersonville, IN fire station.
Throughout 2020, there were 22,000 babies abandoned in the U.S., according to the LA Times. Indiana is one of the five states with a law that permits the use of a Safe Haven location as a means of surrendering an infant. Kentucky, however, is not a state that permits the use of Safe Haven locations.
“A member of the church heard about [the Safe Haven Baby Boxes] and brought it to the committee who does missionary work,” Eastern Heights Baptist Church Pastor Chris Gustafson said. “The committee was excited about it and wanted to help because they felt it would help a lot of people in the community.”