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Following God Into Medical Foster Care

Caring for a child in foster care with medical complexities is a challenge. But it is always worth it.

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Giving God the Reins In Your Foster Parenting Journey

In this broadcast, Jamie Finn emphasizes the importance of Christian families becoming involved in foster care in some form and shared how the Christian community needs to be supportive of both the kids in foster care and their biological parents.

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3 Ways Young Adults Can Support Foster and Adoptive Families

Make the most of your young adult years. Here are ways you can begin supporting foster and adoptive families.

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Foster the Family: The Story of Alan and Jamie Finn

“One child, one time.” That was the plan that Alan and Jamie Finn agreed to when they started the journey to become foster parents. But now, eight years and nearly 30 children later, it is clear God had a different plan. Neither Alan nor Jamie ever expected to become foster parents. They had thought adoption …

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Our Journey to Adoption Through Foster Care

Over a decade ago, the Meadows family was obedient to God’s calling on their lives to pursue adoption through foster care. Here’s where they are now.

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Foster Care in Your State: California

There are over 55,000 children in California’s foster care system. This is how you can get involved.

3 Easy Christmas Crafts to Make for Kids in Foster Care

You can make Christmas special for kids in foster care by creating and donating any one of these easy holiday crafts.

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How to Recognize the Warning Signs of Childhood Trauma

America’s childhood trauma epidemic garners relatively little attention. Knowing the warning signs of childhood trauma can change that.

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The Epidemic of Childhood Trauma in the U.S. Foster Care System and How Christians Can Help

America’s foster care system is experiencing an ‘epidemic within the pandemic.’ Christians can help turn the tide.

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Fostering Gratitude

Children in foster care often move with their belongings in a trash bag. This Thanksgiving season, Wait No More provided brand new suitcases with a Bible and teddy bear to these children to restore dignity and grace.

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Stand Sunday: Make a Difference for Children in Foster Care

Christians have a clear calling to care for children. Stand Sunday is dedicated to taking action to impact children in foster care.

15 Ways Celebrate National Adoption Month

15 Ways to Celebrate National Adoption Month

Here are 15 ways you can support and celebrate foster and adoptive families during National Adoption Month.

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How Wait No More Prepares Families to Engage with Foster Care

It’s a sunny Saturday morning, and families are gathering to learn how they can make a difference for children in foster care at an event called Wait No More.

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Foster Care in Your State: Florida

Wondering how you can make a difference for Florida children in foster care? Learn about the child welfare system, the need for foster families, and how you can get started.

World Foster Day

World Foster Day

Children in South Africa are often placed under incredible pressure to make it through their early years. Poverty, abuse, drug abuse, and neglect are some of the challenges faced on a daily basis by children all over the world.  Many of these children are not adoptable and end up in the foster care system, never …

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How One Group is Serving Foster Group Homes

Our church has been engaged in Adoption and Foster Care for more than ten years now. We believe our calling as God’s people is to care for vulnerable children, giving them hope and a future. Throughout our journey over the past ten years of pressing into this calling, we have seen many families at Mosaic …

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How Collaboration is Changing Lives in Southern Indiana

Sometimes children are placed into foster care not because of abuse or neglect but for physical reasons. Ones that could have been easily prevented.

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How to be a support friend to those who foster

Due to the challenges inherent in fostering, 60% of foster families nationwide won’t make it past the first year. However, we’ve found that the retention rate improves when fostering occurs within the context of a supportive community.

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Would you volunteer to help a foster or adoptive family?

Mobilized volunteers make a difference. We cannot merely stand on the sidelines shouting words of affirmation or encouragement without taking action.

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Local Churches Community Connection

Foster and adoptive families, ministries, and organizations should know the value of a team better than anyone. We have all benefited from excellent training that shed light on what we saw in our homes. Some of us have traveled internationally with a group with whom we now have a lifetime bond. We have been in …