All children deserve and benefit from enduring, positive relationships with caring adults. The same is true for the 513,000 chilren in foster care in America. These young people have a special need to make connections with nurturing adults because their own families are in crisis. Many require secure, stable places to call home until they can either safely reunite with their parent or establish other lifelong family relationships.
31,398 children were in the substitute care system in Texas on August 31, 2006*. Twenty-two percent of those are under the age of three. Most children are placed temporarily in foster care due to parental abuse or neglect. There are only 2,761 licensed foster homes in Texas.
Our goal is twofold. Firstly to raise the need for foster care and adoption. The second is to help those who desire to becone foster parents to do so.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will - to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves."
- Ephesians 1:3-7 (NIV)
*Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. 2006 Data Book.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation."
- 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 (NIV)