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 ...
We believe that foster and adoptive parents are world changers. As a Christian organization, we believe that the gospel of Jesus is what changes lives and communities. We specifically believe that caring for children from hard places, giving them hope and stability will help heal and prevent abuse, neglect, sickness, malnutrition, trafficking, substance abuse, and much more. And the stats back this up.
No one wants to have to tear a family apart. However, sometimes circumstances make it unsafe for a child to be at home, and the state has a legal obligation to ensure the child's safety.
When children can’t safely live at home, the court can give temporary legal possession to Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS is not the bad guy. CPS works with the parents to try not to remove the children. CPS assigns a case worker to the children and then the immediate goal is to find a safe home for the children to live…
As we sat down for devotional this morning, we realized that we might need a new conference table to fit all 14 of us comfortably. The Lord has blessed us with two new case managers and several more families and placements over the summer. We rejoice in the work the Lord has called us to do, and we ask Him to continue to expand His kingdom in San Antonio through the children we serve…
As we sat around the conference room this morning, our devotional leader asked us to shout out words we thought of when he said the word “conflict.” We immediately responded with words such as “anger,” “fighting,” and “shouting”; almost all the words we threw out were negative. To us, conflict is a frightening and frustrating problem that we dread addressing and go out of our way to prevent at all costs. We are terrified of conflict.
Take a moment and picture a desert. Think of the sand, the rocks, the hazy heat on the horizon. As you paint your mental picture, do you see anything living or green? Maybe you see a lizard or a little withered plant, but probably nothing like a lush forest or grassy plain full of animals and signs of life…
This morning, we gathered around the conference table and gave thanks for the families who continue to step forward and say yes to fostering and adopting. We praised the Lord for providing safe, loving homes for children rescued from trauma, and we prayed fiercely that God would bring to light each and every fact in these children’s cases…
“But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the LORD, ‘Isn’t this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.’” Jonah 4:1-2, NIV
When one of our staff members was a little girl, she accepted Jesus as her savior, and a few months later she was baptized in front of her church congregation. Before baptizing her, the pastor asked the little girl if she had experienced any change in her life since accepting Christ. She replied very matter-a-factly that since being saved she had been a lot nicer to her sisters...
