Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:  to look after orphans in their distress.James 1:27

 Homes In Service is about God's plan for His children.  We provide the resources for families to heed God's call on their lives and bring them together with children who need hope and a place to call home…..

 Every day in our country, children are abused, neglected and abandoned.  Thousands enter the foster care system through no fault of their own and are subsequently permanently removed from their homes because their birth families are unable or unwilling to provide a safe environment for them. These children may have moved multiple times and all too frequently grow up in the system.  There are more children available for adoption from foster care each year than are adopted.  Even more compelling, this year in Michigan alone, 500 - 600 of these children will turn 18 and exit the system without a family to call their own.  This was not God's plan for His children.

 At any given time there are over 4,000 children in Michigan's foster care system who are available and waiting for a forever family to call their own.  That means that parental rights have been terminated and these children are wards of the State of Michigan, more commonly known as "orphans".  The fact is that many of these children have endured tremendous pain and need someone to love them with the unconditional love of our Savior.

 There are another 14,000 children in the Michigan foster care system on any given day that are just waiting...to go home, to go to a relative, to have parental rights terminated...they are orphans also, temporarily without a home to call their own.  They deserve someone to love them with the same unconditional love of our Savior as those that are available for adoption.

 I know these are hard numbers to hear, it's easier not to have this information, it's easier to believe that the state has it under control.  Well you are hearing it, you are being given the information and you can rest assured that the state (as hard as it tries) does not have it under control...and besides, God does not call the state to care for these children...He calls me and He calls you, that is if we want to be blessed in a "religion that He accepts as pure and faultless" (James 1:27). 

 Homes In Service Ministries is about helping you become prepared to care for an  orphan, one of God's children. Caring for these children is not a simple request from our Father, it is unmistakably the heart of our Father.  It is about being obedient and knowing the God that we serve.  It is about getting out of your comfort zone and stretching yourself and your resources.  It is about believing that with God as your provider and your strength that yes, even you can do it. 

 People have called my husband and myself many things over the years like: saints, special, strong...I could go on.  All because we have fostered children and adopted five.  We know that we were just average people wanting to grow our family.  God then called us to adopt to fulfill both His and our desires.  We are still in awe that God, who is Father to the fatherless, would want us to give a home to these children.  We are not exceptional by our efforts but made exceptional by God's will in our lives. 

 Paul and I set out, as many couples, to have children shortly after we were married.  We were not able to have biological children so like many we considered our options.  As God would have it, Paul worked as a protective services worker for the State of Michigan when I met him.  I learned much about these children that were in "the system" before I even considered the possibility of adopting one of them.  When we started talking options for adopting neither of us could fathom spending money on foreign or private adoption when there were so many children here and in "the system" that needed homes.  That's how we became involved with this ministry in our lives.  The ministry of caring for God's orphans. 

 We thought we would foster a few and adopt one or two and then we would be done...on with our lives.  Well God had other plans for us...we've fostered over 25 children and have adopted five.  It's been an awesome road of following God's will in our lives!!!  Now God has shown us that we can't adopt them all...that we might even be done adopting, and we don't foster as often having five permanent children in our home. My heart was breaking, not for me so much as for all the children that still need homes. 

 God is good!!  He has shared with me His passion for these children and has given me this vision of Homes In Service Ministries to help fulfill that passion.

 Homes In Service Ministries will have four ministry directives it will eventually fulfill, with God's leading.  The first one is the Outreach Ministry.  We will go to what ever Bible believing church that will have us, we will educate their congregations about the truth of foster care and foster care adoption.  We will use whatever media God directs us to that will enable us to reach the heart of those He has called to care for these children.  Whether it be to foster, to adopt or to support those families that wish to foster or adopt.

The second ministry is Training and Preparation Ministry.  We will go to the church again to provide the training, on site, that is necessary to become licensed foster parents or adoptive parents.  We will also walk people through the necessary paper work  and help get their homes ready for inspection.  No one will have to feel overwhelmed or intimidated by the process.

The third ministry will be (God willing) Licensing, Placement and Adoption Ministry.  We need to become licensed by the state for this and we are working towards that now.  What that license will allow us to do is:  the home studies (for foster and/or adoptive parents), complete the foster care license, place children in foster and/or adoptive homes and complete the adoption.  Obviously this will be an exciting addition to the ministries if it is indeed God's will that the license be granted.  We will keep you posted.

 The forth ministry is the Support Ministry.  This will be the initiation of what we call wrap around families.  Families in each church that will step up to help and support each family that is called to foster and/or adopt.  They could be mentors, prayer warriors, caregivers, meal makers ...and much more.

As we start out on this journey that God is directing us, we are humbled at the task before us.  We are standing on the promise that .. "with God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26) and thankful for all fellow believers He will provide to walk this road with us.  Are you feeling called?

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