Foster Care: The Basics

25 Ways to Help Youth in Foster Care

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It isn’t always easy to know how best to encourage and aid young people in foster care.  Here’s your chance to hear honest reflections and advice from those who know intimately the challenges of life in foster care…and what a big difference small acts of love can make. Download this helpful guide: 25 Ways to [...]

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The Mentoring Project // Resources

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This toolkit will provide you with everything you need to begin a sustainable mentoring community in your church. Included: Promotional DVD Training DVD Operations Manual 10 TMP Field Manuals 20 TMP Promotional Brochures TMP Promotional Poster Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story by John Sowers, President of The Mentoring Project To Own a Dragon or Father [...]

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What I wish I Had Known Before Starting Foster/ Foster Adoption

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Click on What I Wish I Had Known – By Tapestry @ Irving Bible Church – Irving, TX This resource is a PDF list of practical ideas to help one along the journey of foster parenting in Texas. While some of the advice will not be wholly relevant for other states, all of it is very [...]

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The Top 10 of Top 10 Lists For Foster Parents

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Click on The_Top_10_Defining_Foster_Care_Experience by Tapestry @ Irving Bible Church in Irving, TX. The following lists have been compiled by a foster family with 3 biological children who have been fostering for 6 years, had 26 foster children (ages 4 days to 16 years), and are in the process of adopting for the first time! These lists [...]

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Castaway Kid : By R.B. Mitchell

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Rob Mitchell is one of the last “lifers” raised in an American orphanage. Left by a dysfunctional family in an Illinois children’s home, he grew up with kids who were not friends but rather “co-survivors.” After becoming a Christian as a teenager, Rob found what he was looking for, home and family, in a relationship [...]

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The Middle Mom : By Christie Erwin

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Every foster parent knows how hard, and yet how rewarding it can be to care for a child with a difficult past and an uncertain future. Christie Erwin has been a mom, in the middle of it, for countless children over nearly two decades. In this poignant and insightful book, she honestly shares the reality of [...]

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One Small Boat : By Kathy Harrison

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This is a fairly short, sweet and inspiring book to read.  It is a about a little girl entering a loving foster home with many emotional scars and disorders. The family struggles to help her fight to overcome them. We highly recommend this book to anyone who fosters or is considering foster parenting. Buy on [...]

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Adoption Is Greater Than The Universe : By John Piper

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John Piper talks about theological adoption and why we should adopt children.

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Another Place At The Table : By Kathy Harrison

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It’s 1988, and Harrison, a happily married mother of three, takes a job with Head Start, working with at-risk four-year-olds. Her heart goes out to the foster kids; before long, she and her husband take state training and adopt two sisters. Five children make a big family, but Harrison finds it tough to turn her [...]

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Small Town, Big Miracle: How Love Came To The Least Of These

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A Focus On The Family Book.  On one memorable day, while Bishop W. C. Martin and his wife, Donna, were in prayer together, God gave them a one-word message: “Adopt!” They were called to carry out literally James 1:27: “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans . [...]

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