We aspire to become a supportive church by responding to the needs of our local foster, adoptive, and single parent families.
By clicking this link, you can sign up to serve foster, adoptive, and single-parent families in our church. A member of our team will reach out to explain more about the opportunities while making sure that we’re a match!
Ways to volunteer:
Care Team: These teams of five to seven individuals care for families who are currently adopting, fostering, or are single-parent households in our church. Whether it’s to pray, provide a meal, babysit, arrange a date night, or just show love, God can use your gifts and talents to come alongside these families.
Resource Team: The Resource Team shows love to a host, foster, or single-parent family (without an ongoing obligation) by filling one-time requests for donations including diapers, formula, clothing, baby furniture, car seats, etc. This team also helps resource our Foster Closet when needs arise.
Family Coach: As a Family Coach, you would communicate regularly with a host family to assess their needs and then coordinate with the Care and Resource Teams to provide support where appropriate. These individuals make a major difference in the daily lives of fostering and adoptive families in our church!
Foster Family: As a Foster Family, you would become licensed or certified by the Department of Children and Families or an approved licensed child-placing agency, for the temporary care of a child in your home. We will walk alongside you every step of the way!
Adoptive Family: Foster care adoption is the adoption of a child in foster care whose biological parents’ rights have been terminated by a court. The child may be adopted by either his or her foster parents or another adoptive family. If you would like to become an Adoptive Family, we will walk alongside you every step of the way!
Partner Organizations:
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Foster the City: (fosterthecity.org)
Every year, thousands of children are removed from their biological family because of abuse or neglect. These children deserve a loving home in their community where they can experience stability, love and hope for their future. The church is uniquely positioned and called to answer this need. Join a coalition of churches who provide loving homes and support for children in foster care with Foster the City.
YoungLives: (northocyounglives.com)
YoungLives is focused on building relationships with teen moms and dads by entering their world, modeling unconditional love, and encouraging them to become the men and women, and fathers and mothers, God created them to be.
For additional information about Embracing Families, please contact Jennifer Kottke.