PRIDE (Parenting Resource for Information-Development-Education)

January 21st 28th & February 4th (3 consecutive Saturdays 9-5 p.m.-must attend all 3 sessions)
March 31st   April 7th & 14th  (3 consecutive Saturdays 9-5 p.m. – must attend all 3 sessions)

September 17th – October 8th  (meeting each Monday & Thursday evening during these dates 6-9p.m.)

Prior to attending PRIDE, families must contact BCFS and complete the pre-application process.  The application can be obtained by contacting BCFS at 903-757-9383.  Additional information regarding Buckner’s Foster Care & Adoption programs can be found on the website.  Buckner.org or Beafamily .org 

Be A Family Informational Meetings are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 6-7 p.m. at the Buckner Office located at 110 East Cotton St.  Longview.  The next meeting will be February 14, 2012.

 

Contact Information for Adoption, Crisis Pregnancy and Foster Care Services

Mobberly Life Matters Leadership Team – for more information contact carolg@mobberly.net or call 903-663-7345

CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocate - www.easttexascasa.org ~ 903-753-8093

Buckner – Foster care & adoption www.buckner.org or David Ummel 903-757-9383

CPS – Child Protective Services - www.dfps.state.tx.us

Hannah House Maternity Home – www.plministries.org ~ Glennis Woodall 817-578-1707

Living Alternatives:Crisis Pregnancy – Wanda Dance 903.753.7602

Community Partners –Rainbow Room: a resource room for foster families, case workers, & CPS Nancy Eldridge 903.757.0588

Texas Foster Family Association - www.tffa.org, Maud Wright 903.581.8148

Report Abuse: 1-800-252-5400 - www.txabusehotline.org

 

10 Ways Every Christian Can Care for the Orphan and Waiting Child

1.  PRAY for them“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”  Matthew 7:7

• Go online and get a waiting child’s picture.  Tape it to your dashboard and pray for them every time you’re in your car.  Visit AdoptUsKids.org or RainbowKids.com.

2. SPEAK UP for them“Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate.  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.”  Proverbs 31:8-9

• Become a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care.  Visit www.easttexascasa.org

3. PROVIDE for their needs“If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,’ and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?”  James 2:15-16

• Organize a drive in your church to collect school supplies for children in foster care, or shoes for orphanages overseas.

4. SUPPORT those who support them “…and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds…”  Hebrews 10:24

• Mow, baby sit, or organize meals for a week for foster parents.  Take time to pray with them and tell them you appreciate what they do.

• Encourage a family adopting an older child by throwing a shower for them.

5. PROTECT them from harm“The Lord protects the stranger; He supports the fatherless and the widow.”  Psalm 146:9a

• Become a foster parent or emergency foster parent.

• Raise money to build a children’s home in order to help take children off of the streets.

 6. VISIT them where they are“Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this:  to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”  James 1:27

• Go on a mission trip to an orphanage as an individual or family.

• Take dinner to a foster group home on a regular basis.

7. GIVE sacrificially to them “Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”  2 Corinthians 9:7

• Contribute generously to an adoptive family to help offset their costs.

8. ENCOURAGE them to press on“We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.”  1 Thessalonians 5:14

• Become a mentor or tutor to a teenager in a foster group home.

9. GIVE them a Forever Family“A Father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.  God sets the lonely in families…”  Psalm 68:5-6a

• Give a child a home through international, domestic, or foster care adoption.

• Adopt a young adult who has aged out of the foster care system.

10. MOBILIZE your church for themGo therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you…”  Matthew 28:18-20

• Get involved with Mobberly Baptist Church Life Matters Leadership Team.

 

For resources contact Carol at 903-663-7345 or carolg@mobberly.net for more information