The Heart of Fostering
Tips, News, & Encouragement
Don’t Throw in the Towel! Jennifer’s Story of Finding Support
Our Care Community invited us to join the church who has been serving us, and since we started going, we have found so much blessing, connection, and community there. For the first time, this has given us a church community, family, and friends. It’s so nice to finally have other people to lean on.
Lifting the Burden – Joy, Mrs. Shellie, and First ARP
Joy has shared that this Care Community is the first time she’s been able to open up to people. She finally feels connected and like she doesn’t have to do it alone anymore.
The Watsons’ Fostering Story
There were many reasons for the Watsons not to become foster parents, but the biggest reason TO do it outweighed all of the downsides – that “God’s heart is to help children in need, so ours should be too.” The Watsons also had an amazing support team in place that carried, and continues to carry them, through their fostering journey – the Care Community through Good Shepherd Church Charlotte, in collaboration with Fostering the Family.
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Inspired by the powerful true story, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, follows Donna and Reverend Martin as they ignite a fire in the hearts of their rural church to embrace kids in the foster system that nobody else would take.
How Caring for the Widow and Orphan Impacts Your Church
Jesus will never invite you to do something that He Himself was not first willing to do. With the gospel in mind, you need not respond with religious or legalistic hearts, but you should respond as people who were once orphaned, and that God, by “his own choice… gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (James 1:18).
Kalei Thompson’s Care Community
From watching Kalei fall in love with these precious children and nurturing them, to seeing Miller fill the role of a strong and loving dad, I have learned that foster children are incredibly precious, just as my own birthed children are to me.