Archive for the 'Foster Care' Category

By Analiz G. Schremmer
AMARILLO, Texas – Tim and December Barcoft love children.
They lead children’s Sunday school as a couple and December is studying to be a teacher. But they haven’t had children of their own.
“Because we haven’t been blessed with our own kids yet, we see it as God’s way of asking us to do [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
BEAUMONT, Texas – Monica Garrett always dreamed of being a foster group home parent.
“When I accepted this job, I accepted a calling. I know this is what I was called to do. I know this is what I was supposed to do,” she said.
“It is amazing to be able to give a [...]

By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
When Ellinor Nixon sees a clean room, she sees more than dust-free floors and neatly made beds. She sees inside a child’s mind.
“If a child’s bedroom is all jumbled up and messy, it looks like their mind,” she said. “But when I see a child cleaning, organizing their rooms, they’re being healed. [...]

By Analiz González
Buckner International
Mona Harvey opens a Bible and reads to her two foster children from the first story she finds.
“Hannah had no children and that made her very sad.” Mona pauses to laugh. “How ironic,” she says, and goes back to reading. “But in time, God gave her Samuel.”