Partnerships:
First Baptist Woodstock - Atlanta, GA www.fbcw.org
The Chapel - Buffalo, NY www.thechapel.com
El Camino Church - San Jose, Costa Rica www.elcamino-cr.org
Much of our local Foster Care strategy is modeled after FBCW's courageous vision to see all the foster children in their county cared for and adopted. They are literally training hundreds of families and have already seen adoptions in the double digits in just over three years.
Strategy:
Our strategy is flexibly designed for a church of 70 or 7,000. We want to be a blessing to the church and its leaders, not a burden. That is why we bring a step by step strategy for a long term, effective Global Orphan and/or Foster Care ministry.
Advocating:
Patch Our Planet had the opportunity to present on an International panel at the White House November 2011. We are working daily to engage more church partners in order to fulfill our vision of every church in every community caring for every orphan.
International Work:
Costa Rica - December 2011
Ukraine- January 2012
~ Give Care (Mentoring, Foster Funds, training families to become foster parents, Creative Solutions Team, Wrap-Around families)
~ Extend Care (Option of Adoption, Adoption Funds for the Church)
Overview of Global Strategy:
~ Setting up Orphan Teams
~ Cultures and Perception awareness
~ Initial Steps for Church leadership approval
~ Questions to ask potential Global Partners
~ Global Partner Criteria
~ Difference between Relief & Development
~ Distribution Centers of Hope
~ Step by step process of a long term, sustainable strategy
~ Reproducing healthy orphan ministry
~ Practical ways to get the Church involved in Orphan Care
~ How to unveil the strategy to your church
~ Orphan Funds (Global, Adoption, Foster Care)
~ Options for raising money for adoptions
Our strategy is flexibly designed for a church of 70 or 7,000. We want to be a blessing to the church and its leaders, not a burden. That is why we bring a step by step strategy for a long term, effective Global Orphan and/or Foster Care ministry.
Advocating:
Patch Our Planet had the opportunity to present on an International panel at the White House November 2011. We are working daily to engage more church partners in order to fulfill our vision of every church in every community caring for every orphan.
International Work:
Costa Rica - December 2011
Ukraine- January 2012
Overview of Local Strategy:
~ Show Care (Events, projects, camps, alliances)~ Give Care (Mentoring, Foster Funds, training families to become foster parents, Creative Solutions Team, Wrap-Around families)
~ Extend Care (Option of Adoption, Adoption Funds for the Church)
Overview of Global Strategy:
~ Setting up Orphan Teams
~ Cultures and Perception awareness
~ Initial Steps for Church leadership approval
~ Questions to ask potential Global Partners
~ Global Partner Criteria
~ Difference between Relief & Development
~ Distribution Centers of Hope
~ Step by step process of a long term, sustainable strategy
~ Reproducing healthy orphan ministry
~ Practical ways to get the Church involved in Orphan Care
~ How to unveil the strategy to your church
~ Orphan Funds (Global, Adoption, Foster Care)
~ Options for raising money for adoptions