Members of Rich Fork’s foster & adopt support group reflect on the encouragement they find each week, the role the wider church can play, and their advice for any church who wants to begin supporting vulnerable children and families.
“We would’ve told you this was never going to be in our cards,” Sara said. “But God has different plans than we have for ourselves.”
The heart behind Thrive is recognizing that saying “yes” to a child is only the beginning of the journey.
Parker spent much of his life in North Carolina’s foster care system. Two and a half years with the Willaford family changed what family means to him – and here’s how fostering with BCH actually works.
More than 11,000 children are in the North Carolina foster care system. BCH Chief Programs Officer Nancy Osborne explains what out-of-home care means, how foster care has changed, and why the gospel stays at the center.
If God has been stirring something in you about foster care, the question that usually comes next is a practical one: what does this actually involve? Here’s the honest answer, start to finish. Becoming a licensed foster parent through BCH takes about four to six months. It involves 30 hours of training, at least three…
A BCH story of hope: What changes for us when we choose to see foster care through the eyes of a child— a child who has been removed from their family of origin, often separated…
A BCH story of hope: Most churches want to pray more meaningfully for children in foster care, for residential homes like the cottages at Baptist Children’s Homes, and for the…
A BCH story of hope: When Malik first came to live with his foster family, they didn’t pray for adoption. They prayed for something harder — and more beautiful. They prayed that…
A BCH story of hope: Every May, our nation pauses to recognize something that Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina carries in its heart every single day: the urgent…
