MIDLAND, Texas (ABP) — The Ewing family does everything together. They wash dishes, go grocery shopping and spend hours playing electronic games in the living room. "We've got to do everything together. If we don't, we won't have time together,"…
Not called to foster? Here are other ways to help
BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — Here are some small ways to help a foster-care family that can have a big impact. Offer to babysit—Babysitting foster children requires some time spent in training and certification, but it is a huge help to…
Common myths about foster care
BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — Buckner International foster-care professionals David Chandler and Samela Macon dispell some common myths about foster care. Myth: All foster children are emotionally disturbed and damaged beyond repair. There's nothing I can do to help them. Fact:…
November New Baptist Covenant II gatherings taking shape
ATLANTA (ABP) – Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., have all been nailed down for satellite downloads of a Nov. 17-19 New Baptist Covenant II anchored in Atlanta. Los Angeles and Philadelphia remain as…
Early in children’s services, Baptists try to keep pace with change
THOMASVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — In the first decades following the Civil War when poverty shadowed widows and children of fallen soldiers in a dramatically disrupted South, Baptists and other Christian denominations started orphanages to care for them. Today, the South…
Advocates seek foster parents in churches
THOMASVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — Hundreds of thousands of families are needed to provide foster care for nearly a half-million children and teenagers who for their own safety cannot continue to live at home. Some of those families are found in…
Mars Hill pours itself into Madison County
MARS HILL, N.C. (ABP) — No one goes hungry in Madison County, North Carolina, for lack of effort by Mars Hill Baptist Church. Mars Hill Baptist, adjacent to Mars Hill College in the mountains of western North Carolina north of…
Early into children’s services, Baptists trying to keep pace with changes
In the first decades following the Civil War when poverty shadowed widows and children of fallen soldiers in a dramatically disrupted South, Baptists and other Christian denominations started orphanages to care for them. Today, the South is dotted with campuses…
Not called to foster? There are other ways you can help foster families
Offer to babysit — Babysitting foster children requires some time spent in training and certification, but it is a huge help to parents who might need a night or weekend off. Help around the house — Some foster parents note…
Common myths about foster care
Myth: All foster children are emotionally disturbed and damaged beyond repair. There's nothing I can do to help them. Fact: "We see miracles happen all the time with foster children, and that's because of the relationship they develop in the…
Mars Hill church pours itself into North Carolina county
MARS HILL, N.C. (ABP) — No one goes hungry in Madison County, North Carolina, for lack of effort by Mars Hill Baptist Church. Mars Hill Baptist, adjacent to Mars Hill College in the mountains of western North Carolina north of…
Fostering isn’t for everyone, but everyone can play a part
With more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, it's an issue that's not going away. Foster care is a temporary living arrangement for children who have been taken from their families as a result of abuse,…