Mobilizing the Church
for Foster Care
The church is uniquely positioned to care for children and families impacted by foster care. While not everyone is called to foster or adopt, everyone can play a role in supporting vulnerable children and the families who care for them.
Through prayer, practical support, and community involvement, churches can create environments where foster families feel supported and children experience stability, encouragement, and hope.
Together, we can build a network of care that reflects compassion in action.
Praying
Intercede for children, biological families, foster parents, and case workers in our community through faithful prayer.
Everyone Can Do Something
Not every family is called to foster, but every person can play a role in supporting vulnerable children and families. When churches come together to serve, small acts of kindness become powerful expressions of care.
Giving
Support families in crisis by providing financial resources or essential items like clothes, school supplies, and gift cards.
Serving
Join a wraparound team to provide meals, transportation, or mentor a child currently navigating the foster system.
Fostering
Open your heart and home to provide safety, stability, and sacrificial love for a child in transition.
Start a Foster Care
Ministry at Your Church
Launching a foster care ministry allows your church to care for vulnerable children and support the families who welcome them into their homes. By building a team of people committed to prayer, encouragement, and practical support, your congregation can become a place where foster families are strengthened and children experience stability, compassion, and hope.
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Discover the Need
Build Your Team
Establish Support
Scale Your Impact
Begin by understanding the specific landscape of foster care in your local community.
Identify and gather a core group of passionate members to lead and advocate for the vision.
Build care teams that surround foster and biological families with practical help, encouragement, and community through meals, prayer, childcare, and other forms of support.
Grow your reach through specialized training, community resources, and long-term advocacy.
We are available to help churches take these steps and build sustainable ministries that serve
children and families.
Ways Your Church Can Support
Foster Families
Wraparound Care Teams
Groups of church members who provide meals, childcare, prayer, and encouragement to foster families.
Transportation Assistance
Help provide rides to visits, appointments, church events, and support groups so families don’t have to navigate it alone.
Respite Support
Offer short-term childcare to give foster parents time to rest and recharge.
Clothing Closet
Provide clothing and essential items for children entering care.
Family Support
Support biological families working toward reunification through encouragement and practical assistance.
Mentorship Programs
Walk alongside youth in foster care as mentors and encouragers.
Church Resources
Equip your leadership and congregation with biblically-grounded tools and practical guides to support foster families and launch sustainable care ministries.
Atlanta Churches Answer the Call
Foster families were never meant to walk the journey alone. Across Atlanta, churches are finding simple and meaningful ways to support the families who have opened their homes to children in need.
Church Impact Stories
Church - Your Gifts and Talents Matter
Foster care can feel overwhelming, but the church doesn’t have to solve everything to make a difference. Sometimes support looks like bringing dinner, changing the oil in a car, or taking a child fishing.
Faith in Action: A Clothing Drive Success
The incredible story of a church in Florida partnering with us, here in Georgia, to help launch a clothing closet ministry.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.” — James 1:27
Answering the biblical call to care for the vulnerable is the highest reflection of God's love in our community and the heart of our mission.