
Some Local and MI Foster Care Numbers
– There are over 13,000 Children are in foster care in Michigan. They have been removed from their birth families
Churches can help foster and adoptive families feel supported, connected, equipped, and never alone locally.
KIDS BELONG is about churches coming together to talk about how families can get involved.
We don’t need new social service agencies, we need to connect kids with good foster and adoptive families through the agencies and systems we already have. Many people would like to help, but do not know how. We, the Church, need to simply talk about it! If we talk about it in a coordinated way, we will be more effective than everyone going it alone.
Churches can create lasting change by connecting, supporting, equipping, and serving foster and adoptive families.
Bringing churches and families together through meaningful relationships, shared awareness, and coordinated local support.
Standing alongside foster and adoptive families with practical care, encouragement, prayer, and consistent community support.
Providing churches with useful resources, guidance, and clear opportunities to serve children and families effectively.
Working together to create stronger support networks and better outcomes for children and families.
Explore practical insights, local foster care needs, and meaningful ways churches can support children, parents, and families in their communities.

– There are over 13,000 Children are in foster care in Michigan. They have been removed from their birth families

There are many reasons! Let me give you a few: Foster/Adoption is working upstream of possibly every other social issue we have. Homelessness,