Community Awareness Outreach Update

Pictured above: Poiema’s newest outreach campus in Plano
Poiema family,
We’re excited to share some incredible updates! This month, Poiema launched a new outreach campus in Plano through One Community Church and sent out five cars. The community was very receptive—open to receiving our posters and eager to participate in helping us find missing children.
Since our last update in April, a total of 114 cars have gone into the field to distribute posters of missing kids and gathering intel on suspicious activity. In August alone, 3 out of the 12 missing children featured on our posters were recovered. Praise God!
Here are a few highlights from the field:
- A Plano gas station clerk reported seeing A. Hernandez daily in recent weeks, described her patterns, and showed our team security footage. 4TheOne was then able to follow up on this vital information.
- In Cleburne, an Exxon clerk confirmed multiple sightings of Kyle, who has consistently been seen with an older man and displayed suspicious activity.
- The Dallas Life Center requested our posters be texted weekly so they can display them and stay on alert.
- M. Graciela was found after 1,009 days of searching, thanks to the persistence of our volunteers as well as 4TheOne’s team of private investigators.
- L. Cummings, another child who has frequented our posters, returned home!
Each recovery in the past few months fuels our hope and reaffirms that the work Poiema is doing is changing lives.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support—it’s making a real difference in the lives of these children and families.
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P.S. We want to feature your team’s photo in the outreach blogs! Snap a picture at your next outreach and email it to natalie@poiemafoundation.org.
With gratitude,
Natalie Alonzo | Education and Outreach Director
Poiema Foundation
Cell: (945)-766-0255