Team Tyler
Tyler* was 3 years old when he entered the foster care system. Developmentally, he was behind. There were significant problems and concerns for the child’s future, and it was deemed unsafe for him…
Read More ›A Better Way
Rick Jackson, FaithBridge Foster Care's chairman of the board and Jackson Healthcare CEO, shares his story and the importance of a Christian foster family in his own life. His foster family invited him to…
Read More ›Meet Beth*
She's been in and out of foster care a few times. Most recently, one of Beth's birth parents was suspected of sexual abuse. Child services pulled her and her siblings out of…
Read More ›10 Children’s Books for Kiddos in Foster Care
It’s difficult for us grown-ups to wrap our brains around the circumstances faced by our foster children at young ages and hard to imagine translating it into words. Fortunately, there are some…
Read More ›29 Ways to Entertain Kiddos…for $1!
29 Dollar-Store Finds That Will Keep Your Kids Busy All Summer is a creative and thorough list compiled by father of three and parenting editor Mike Sport at BuzzFeed.com and will help you get your…
Read More ›Jenny was scared of the dark…
When siblings enter foster care, sometimes they end up in the same home and sometimes they are placed in separate homes. One FaithBridge family was able to welcome four siblings so one…
Read More ›FaithBridge Core Values: {relational}
A mountainside in Israel. Photo by Heather. Jesus created relationships among His disciples and followers. At FaithBridge, being relational drives us to create connections among all the parties in the foster care system: county and…
Read More ›The Challenging Choices in Fostering
The choice to foster is not a flippant one. The paperwork. The training. The visits to your home by caseworkers. People who choose to foster have thought about the implications, done their…
Read More ›There’s a story in the numbers…
Some of us are BFFs (best friends forever) with data. Information. Statistics. Numbers. Facts. Figures. We get along great and spend most of our days together. Our worlds are intertwined like middle…
Read More ›Mr. Jim
Foster children have to grow up too quickly sometimes. They see the harsh realities of sin in our world and live in the broken families that come from it. One 3-year-old boy…
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