Bethany has a long history of serving, loving, and ministering to those in the foster care system in our community. In line with this, we have started a new ministry called Foster The City, so that as a church we can go deeper in serving both the children in foster care in our community, and the families providing it.
Our county DCFS office has been reaching out to local churches and faith-based communities for help because the crisis is only growing. Our hope is to step up and help in Christ's name by serving and caring for the most vulnerable in our community. Maybe some of you are called to open up your home to a child in crisis through providing foster care. For others, a more practical step is wrapping love and support around a foster family. Foster the City equips us to do both of these. You can join a team of support friends who provide tangible support and spiritual encouragement to foster families in our church and community, or you can be supported along your own journey into becoming a foster family. Support friends wrap the foster families in our church with love and care, so they know they are not alone, and can endure through the long, hard work they are doing in Christ's name!
If you are a Foster Family at Bethany, would you please allow us to support you? Or, if you would like to support a foster family, please get involved in Bethany's Foster The City ministry! Email Pastor Dave Darjany for more info at .
You can also learn more by joining a Foster The City Info Meeting. Sometimes we host these at Bethany, but you can also join a virtual one, or an in-person one at another nearby church. Going to any of these is the first step in getting involved in the Foster The City Ministry at Bethany! Check out upcoming meetings here: http://fosterthecity.org/rsvp.