A Ministry for the Whole Family
Looking at anything through the eyes of a child can completely alter our perspective. Fifth-graders seem like adults to kindergarteners. Christmas being two weeks away is f-o-r-e-v-e-r. And a flat tire at…
Read More ›When the Community of Care® Continues to Care
The Community of Care® promises and provides support to foster families and, when it’s possible and appropriate, continues meeting the needs of families long after the children are officially part of the…
Read More ›Scripture for Fostering: From One Foster Parent to Another
By Nicole Barlow, FaithBridge Foster Mom My family began the fostering journey nearly three years ago. We said “yes” to a sibling set of two that stayed in our home for over…
Read More ›A Baptism Story
Children end up in foster care for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes a mistake that the parents made. And in some of those cases, the consequence of the mistake is…
Read More ›Her Name
Fostering can reveal God’s love–the love of THE perfect Father–in ways that no other role has the privy of experiencing. A FaithBridge foster dad shares about how a nameless, 4-day-old baby girl…
Read More ›Vertical Life Church: How a Family Fostering Siblings Lead to a Foster Care Ministry
Vertical Life Church in Dallas, Georgia, will be launching a partnership with FaithBridge and their church’s foster care ministry on Sunday, April 17, 2016. The journey to start this ministry at this…
Read More ›His Hands Church: Connecting the Dots
We like things that are logical. Step one. Step two. And then step three. God designed much of life to work like this. Systems. Processes. Order. On the flip side, God seems…
Read More ›One Mom’s Contagious Enthusiasm for Foster Care: “God has put a fire in my heart!”
“God is the great redeemer,” said FaithBridge foster mom Amanda. “He’s taken ugly ugliness and made it beautiful.” Her energy and passion for foster care ministry explodes from each word energetically flowing…
Read More ›Meet the Hambricks and Vintage242
“Foster care was nowhere on my radar screen.” said Steve Hambrick, senior pastor at Vintage242. “I had never considered it personally…until we sat down with two couples who had done foster care…
Read More ›5 Reasons Our Family Fosters
“I would never foster if it wasn’t headed toward adoption. What’s the point?” This question from a friend struck me with a surprising jolt. My already tender heart has been feeling a…
Read More ›I Can’t Convince Anyone to be a Foster Parent
Photo credit: Forever Found (51 of 52) via photopin (license) A few years ago, we were scheduled to go onstage at church and talk about our experience as foster parents. We were only three months into…
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