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.
What Can We Do?
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. KIDS BELONG is about churches coming together to talk about how families can get involved. We, the Church,… Read More »What Can We Do?
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 because of abuse and/or neglect. – There are about 450 kids in foster care in Muskegon County alone. – 2,500 of those 13,000 children have adoption as their case goal, as determined by the courts. … Read More »Some Local and MI Foster Care Numbers
Of all the issues we could support, why is this worth the Church’s time and attention?
There are many reasons! Let me give you a few: Foster/Adoption is working upstream of possibly every other social issue we have. Homelessness, drug addiction, child abuse and neglect, etc. Children who age out of foster care or who have abusive experiences while they are in foster care are far more likely to repeat that… Read More »Of all the issues we could support, why is this worth the Church’s time and attention?