WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE
Millions of children around the world need a family. Many homes seem to have something missing that adoption or foster care offers to fill.
Exploring adoption or foster care means prayerfully weighing many practical concerns in your head against the often-inexplicable tugging of your heart. Consider the impact you could have in the life of a child who would not otherwise have a mother or father.
How might God be leading you to change their circumstances?
What kind of home and family might you be able to provide?
Which route is best – domestic adoption, international adoption, or foster care?
With so many significant factors to consider, where do you start?
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
LAKEPOINTE CHURCH CARES
If you are interested in adoption or foster care, or if you would like to provide time and resources to care for orphan children, please contact the Lakepointe Adoption ministry by visiting lakepointe.org/adoption, call 469.698.2241, or email adoptionministry@lakepointe.org
GOING FURTHER
RESOURCES
- Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family: Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges by David and Renee Sanford
Will equip readers to be successful adoptive parents. It is the one parenting resource that provides comprehensive, topical, Bible-based solutions for the inevitable challenges after adoption.
- Reframing Foster Care by Jason Johnson
Gives readers realistic and inspirational insights on the foster parenting journey.
- Fields of the Fatherless: Discover the Joy of Compassionate Living by C. Thomas Davis
Inspires readers to share God’s heart for orphans and offers a broad range of helpful resources and organizations.
- HowToAdopt.org
A service of Shaohannah’s Hope, the organization founded by Christian musician Steven Curtis Chapman. It provides background information, responses to myths about adoption and practical steps for pursuing adoption.