Lilyfield Christian Adoption and Foster Care – www.lilyfield.org Providing loving, Christian families for infants and children through private adoption and a foster care program for children in state custody. And giving women in crisis pregnancies a place to turn to for guidance and adoption services. One Church, One Child of Oklahoma – www.onechurchonechildokla.org A nationally recognized special recruitment program working in conjunction with the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program, a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation and the Oklahoma Department of Human Services to find adoptive/foster parents for children in the child welfare system. St. Francis Community Services – www.st-francis.org A faith-based, nonprofit organization committed to providing excellence in care through child and family-based services that include adoption, alcohol and drug counseling, assisted living, child welfare, community outreach services, connecting families, foster care, outpatient mental health services, psychiatric residential treatment and therapeutic foster care. The Bair Foundation – www.bair.org Provides foster care and therapeutic foster care with Christ-centered quality care and services dedicated to the treatment, restoration and empowerment of children, youth and families.
Lilyfield Christian Adoption and Foster Care Comes to Tulsa Community Spirit is pleased to welcome Lilyfield Christian Adoption and Foster Care to Tulsa. The highly-respected non-profit heard the cries for help and has opened a Tulsa office to assist in recruiting enough Christian families to solve our community’s critical need for additional foster care and adoptive parents. Lilyfield is well-equipped for this God-given task. Originally part of Colorado Christian Services, they became their own separate non-profit, serving families in and around Oklahoma City since 2000. Believing God has equipped them with both the skills and passion to bring families together, they provide adoption services to women in unplanned pregnancies and services to Christian couples
B e c o me a Fo s t er Parent! I Don’t Think I Am Foster Parent Material (from St. Francis Family Services website) Great foster parents come from people in all phases of life. You could be better foster parent material than you think! Foster care parents are often… • Active church members who feel a sense of mission in serving children • Community minded people who want to help kids stay in their own town or city • Adults, now empty-nesters, looking to have children in the home • People who will help a relative or provide brief respite care for other foster parents • People from all professions and stages of life, who share a common bond in helping children.
hoping to adopt. They also operate a foster care program, providing foster homes for children in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. The mission of Lilyfield Christian Adoption and Foster Care is to provide stable, loving families for infants and young children through adoptive and foster care placements. They accomplish this by carefully screening and training potential parents and by preparing birth mothers through support and counseling. Please help us welcome this important new partner in the effort to secure a loving home for every child.
What Does It Take To Be A Foster Parent? Just be willing to open your heart and your home to help provide a sense of love and safety that will help kids get through the life experiences that brought them into foster care.
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