The Issue / The Calling

Why foster children?

How will reaching and serving foster children in our community make a difference?

20% of foster children become homeless instantly when they age out at 18 years old

25% of foster children are incarcerated by age 20

50% of foster children will not graduate from high school

70% of foster youth will become pregnant by age 21

70% of aged out foster children will be arrested at least once by age 26

63% youth suicides come from fatherless homes

Children from fatherless homes are…

  • 4x more likely to live in poverty

  • 10x more likely to use drugs

  • 14x more likely to commit rape

God’s word and command for His children

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalm 82:3

Pure and undefiled religion before God Our Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

James 1:27

Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for Me.

Matthew 25:40