What Is FLOC?

FLOC, For Love Of Children, is an ecumenical task force that advocates with elected officials on behalf of children. FLOC members try to raise awareness on children’s issues in their congregations and in the community at large and to be advocates with public officials for policies beneficial to all children, especially the children of Bucks County and Pennsylvania.

Networking with other groups, FLOC members helped establish the Bucks County Dental Project to provide dental care for uninsured poor children.

FLOC’s Tooth Fairy Kits, an on-going project, uses items donated by local groups and congregations to provide attractive bags filled with dental and health care necessities to needy local children through school nurses. Contact Tammie Faggart (215- 741-5996, tammiefaggart@hotmail.com for more information about Tooth Fairy Kits.

FLOC continues to work with national and statewide coalitions on these issues like these: child care, hunger, early childhood education, welfare reform, medical and dental care, gun control, and violence.

FLOC members currently come from several Lower Bucks County congregations.

FLOC Advocates, our hot-line email partners, contact state and federal elected officials by phone, email, or letters, on issues important to children. Advocates, from many congregations and from the community at large, are a powerful voice on behalf of children, especially our neediest children.

FLOC is sponsored by the Lower Bucks Center for Church and Community, an ecumenical body which aims to bring Christians and congregations together across denominational, racial, social, and economic lines to promote growth in Christian unity, greater interfaith understanding, and ministry to all God’s people.

To learn more about FLOC, to arrange for a FLOC speaker, to find out how you and your congregation can become part of FLOC, or to become a FLOC Advocate, contact Mary Ann Bentz, 215-295-2076, maben730@aol.com