This page is for those who have a foster family already in your near circle. Do you have family, close friends, or someone in your small group at church that is opening their home by way of foster care or adoption? If you answered yes, be there. Be there to love them. Be there to love the kids. They won’t know how to ask always and sometimes they will be afraid to ask at all. Be there anyway in ways that you can. Please take the time, for the sake of your loved ones entering in this journey of loving kids from hard places, to read and watch what is below. “Train yourself” so to speak on how to walk beside them. 

 

Blog Posts

 

    Four Ways Your Church Can Support Foster and Adoptive Families — Jason Johnson

 

Jason Johnson is a foster parent himself and works for Christian Alliance for Orphans. He speaks in churches and at conferences in effort to equip those in the foster and adoptive journey, or those who are coming alongside it. He is also the author of several books and a blog. In this specific blog post, he highlights how churches can get involved in supporting local foster families. However, these tangible forms of support would be good for anyone trying to support and love a fostering family. 

 

   Have You Said This to a Foster Parent? – The Forgotten Initiative

 

This post from The Forgotten Initiative does a good job walking you through how to encourage with words. We have all been there. We don’t know what to say OR we think we know what to say but our words hurt instead of help. This short blog post brings some of those “do not” phrases to the forefront. 

 

Video 

This video was filmed by a group of teenagers in Cabarrus County. They interviewed local foster and adoptive families who speak directly to the needs and support that was, or would have been, most helpful to them and their children.