The Need
There are over 400,000 children in U.S. foster care going from family to family. There are over 100,000 kids in need of a family today.
Click on your state below to see what the need is in YOUR backyard.
There are 350,000 Churches in the United States.
What if EVERY Church did something?
Watch this video
to see how you can set up a foster care, adoption, and support ministry in your church.
BACKYARD ORPHANS
guides church leaders to develop a foster care, adoption, and support ministry.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27 (NIV)
See Our Impact
Since 2012
1000+
Churches have been engaged
1000+
Children have found homes
5
State government leaderships engaged
38
States have been impacted by Backyard Orphans
90
Days where we saw no child waiting for adoption from our county
421
Children fostered & 66 adopted by our local church
See Our Impact
Since 2012
1000+
Churches have been engaged
800+
Children have found homes
5
State government leaderships engaged
21
States have been impacted
90
Days where we saw no child waiting for adoption from our county
421
Children fostered & 66 adopted by our local church
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Partner with us in launching more foster care, adoption, and support ministries through local churches around the nation!
Next Step
Church leaders, there’s never been a better time to develop a foster care, adoption, and support ministry.
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