If you’re exploring foster care in San Antonio, you probably have questions. What is foster care? Is it the same as adoption? Can it lead to adoption? Here’s what you need to know.
Encounters with law enforcement or federal agencies can feel stressful—especially when you’re caring for a child in foster care. This guide offers practical, neutral information to help foster parents prepare, stay organized, and focus on what matters most: the child’s safety and well-being.
At our San Antonio foster care agency, we've compiled a comprehensive Recommended Resources page filled with suggestions specifically designed for foster and adoptive families, but applicable to all families. Here are four outstanding resources that have been making a significant impact in our community.
Pray for our foster families. Pray that more answer the call to make disciples of orphans. Pray boldly that every child finds a safe, loving home where they can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Pray for biological families to succeed in their court-mandated services so they can be reunified. Pray for a legal system that prioritizes the well-being of children.
Children in foster care often come from traumatic backgrounds. At 1HOPE for Kids, we believe that building trust through connection leads to healing relationships. That's why we've partnered with equine-assisted therapy (EAT) providers to support our foster kids in the San Antonio area.
EAT is a unique form of therapy that builds patient connection and trust through its treatment program with horses. We're proud to partner with three organizations offering EAT ...
Choosing social work as a career field often means giving up other things such as the concept of weekends off or evenings without work phone calls. Choosing to be a foster parent comes with the same sort of mindset. Date nights now revolve around who is available for respite and family pictures can no longer be posted on Facebook for the whole world to see. Life is just different when you get involved in foster care...
We have come into a season of being flooded with new willing families, staff members, and community/church partners. This is a season of huge growth for us and we want to be good stewards of what God is clearly leading us into. We believe that just as God has sent us more families, He will send us the aid we need to support our families and the children placed in their homes. Our Heavenly Father is a provider who lavishes His provision on us—His children—He invites us to simply come as we are and ask for what we need.
We took a break from the blog for the past two weeks because of the open house and then catching up after the open house, but we are back on a regular blog schedule! Today’s devotional was a great reminder for us as an agency that God is 100% for us and no one and nothing can stop His good purpose for us...
Last week we shared Psalm 46 and talked about taking time to be still and reflect on the Lord. Although it seems so easy to just set aside a little time each day to rest in the Lord, all of us know from experience that it is actually really difficult to stop what we’re doing—stuff that we feel needs to happen now—and reflect on God...
Before we get into the topic for today, we want to share a really cool God moment that led to this blog. We did not have a formal devotional today, but we did meet for a prayer time. Before prayer, the staff member who writes the blog was reflecting on what the Lord wanted to share in the blog today
Our devotional today was over 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, but we focused specifically on verses three and eleven:
“I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said…So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed.”
We did not have a devotional today, but we did have a wonderful prayer time for all our current families and the families the Lord keeps sending our way. We can say in full confidence that God has brought and continues to bring us some truly amazing families who are committed to loving and supporting the children placed in their homes.
