Foster Parents Needed


Here is a ministry that Misty and I learned about on the Winston Salem News last night. This church is challenging every church in their area to have one family that is licensed as Foster Parents. If we could get every church in Carroll County Virginia to have at least one Foster Parent Couple, we could take of all of Carroll County’s Foster Care Needs as well as many of the surrounding Counties.

Why is it that more Christians are not stepping up to the task of caring for the children?

After working in a Group Children’s Home for 5 years and adopting a son from there, I will say these places are needed and there are several good ones available. However, a group home is not where children are supposed to grow up. They are supposed to grow up in a home with parents who love them and spend time with them. The Greatest Need of most of the children  I worked with in the group home setting  was for one on one time with an adult who cared. You no doubt are very busy but adding a child to your busy schedule could in turn change a multitude of lives.

If we could evaluate the things we do in life and see which of those things are life changing for us and for other people.

Ronnie

Here is the link to Channel 12 News and coverage on this stroy.

http://www.wxii12.com/video/18313668/index.html

seedsofhope

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”          (James 1:27)

Jesus said, what we do unto the least of these, we do also unto Him. As Christians, we are commanded to care for the widowed and the fatherless, yet we often ignore their plight as we careen through life harried by the demands of our self inflicted business. Imagine the heart of God as it breaks over the child taken from its home because it was the victim of the ugliness and sin of man. Imagine God’s shame as we who are called his own do nothing.

 

The ministry established by QGBC, “Seeds of Hope” seeks to become an agent of change in the lives of children who are in need of adoption or who are in the foster care system. Our vision is based upon the directives of Jesus in Acts 1:8 that call us to minister at home while ever expanding our outreach to the ends of the earth. Our overall goal is to see every child in the Stokes County adoption or foster care system, and eventually the world, placed in a Christian home. “Seeds of Hope” will initially focus its efforts locally in Stokes County with the hope inspiring other churches worldwide to become vehicles of obedience to God’s commandment of care.

A child is orphaned every 18 seconds.

There are 143 million orphans in the world today. They will spend an average of 10 years of their life in an orphanage or foster care if we do not help.

If only 7% of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for the orphans, there would effectively be no more orphans.

In the US, approximately 510,000 children are living in the foster care system. The majority of them are hoping to be reunited with their parents or another family member. But 127,000 of them are waiting to be adopted.

     In the US, more than 20,000 teens age out of the foster care system each year. They are forced to try and make it on their own with no support or guidance.

Every year 14,050,000 children worldwide age out of the system. That is 38,493 children per day: one child every 2.2 seconds with no family and no place to call home.

90% of the young men in prison were either abandoned by their parents, abused/lived in the foster care system.

30% of all US homeless adults have spent time in the foster care system.

27% of US males that were in the foster care system and 10% of US females that were in the foster care system were incarcerated within 12-18 months after aging of the foster care system.

10% of US females that were in the foster care system had given birth within 12-18 months after aging out of the foster care system.

50% of those who were in foster care were unemployed after aging of the foster care system.

33% of those who were in foster care received public assistance after aging out of the foster care system..

37% of those who were in the foster care system had not finished school.

 

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