You Know This Doesn't Have to be a Life Calling, Right?

You know this doesn’t have to be a life calling, right? You know that getting a license to foster doesn’t mean you must forever be a foster parent?

What we need: people who are willing to step in for children. But there’s no one saying how many or how long.

Maybe it’s one child one, once. Maybe you open your home for a year. Maybe you provide respite periodically, maybe you reunity or adopt your first placement and you’re done. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll find yourself ten years and 30 kids in with 7 kids in your home and no end in sight…but maybe you won’t. And each and every one of these cases is a foster care “job well done.”

Being a foster parent doesn’t have to be seen as a forever life calling. It can simply be an opportunity to serve, a way to help. You don’t need faith for the whole journey, you only need it for the first step.

Do you have a heart to serve children and families? Do you have the resources, stability, support to do so? Do you have one space, one bed, one crib, one year? That’s enough, that’s all you need.

Foster care isn’t—doesn’t have to be—a lifelong calling. First and foremost, it’s an opportunity to serve.

Are you able to serve? Are you willing?