Tupelo Children’s Mansion celebrates the past, looks to the future

TUPELO, MISS. (WCBI) – A Northeast Mississippi based ministry is celebrating more than six decades of helping children.

The Tupelo Children’s Mansion began its annual board of directors meeting with a banquet at the Bancorpsouth Conference Center.

Hundreds of supporters turned out to hear how the Christian ministry has been helping families and children in crisis situations.

The ministry provides residence halls, a Christian school, dining hall, chapel and other services for residents and staff.

“They have everything they need, a school, counselors, everything they need to grow up and be productive in life,” said vice president and CFO of the Tupelo Children’s Mansion Aubrey Jayroe.

“There are so many kids that I see here that there would have been no other way they would graduate, they have an opportunity for an education, a future, you have kids who come from broken homes, but this place is hope and it is such an amazing place for kids to either get adopted or just be sponsored and be in a place where people truly love them and aren’t going to hurt them,” said a resident at the mansion Celeste Woods.

The Tupelo Children’s Mansion is supported financially through churches, individuals and businesses.

More than 2,000 children have been served through the years.