Fielder Foster Care & Adoption Ministry

02/05/2025

04/10/2024

🌟 Interested in Foster Care & Adoption? Join us for a special evening that could start your journey!

🎉 Event: BRAVE Dinner Gathering
🗓 Date: Tuesday, April 23rd
⏰ Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍 Location: South Oaks Campus Gym

Whether you're ready to take your first steps into foster care and adoption, want to learn more about how to become a voice for the vulnerable, or are looking to start serving in a meaningful way, the BRAVE event is for you! Plus, it’s completely free - dinner included!

💌 RSVP & Questions? Reach out to us at [email protected]

This event will be in English, but live translation will be available.

03/23/2024

Right here in our own state, there is a great need for families to open their homes to love and care for vulnerable children. If you have a heart for children in foster care or want to learn more about what fostering and adoption actually looks like, this BRAVE Recruitment Event is for you!

At BRAVE, you will hear from a panel of different perspectives in the foster/adoptive community, receive resources to guide you in how to start the process of becoming licensed and get connected with the licensing agencies that will walk with organizations in your local community that have practical ways you can volunteer to serve vulnerable children and families.

We would love for you to join us at Fielder Church-South Oaks Campus on Tuesday, April 23rd, at 6pm.

Link to Register for BRAVE:

https://app.onechurchsoftware.com/fielder/forms/67

BRAVE Volunteer Registration:

https://app.onechurchsoftware.com/fielder/forms/272

01/05/2023

Don’t walk alone.

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:23-25‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Reach out today about starting or getting placed in a foster/adoption specific D-group.

10/04/2022

🍁Testimony Tuesday!🍁
Be encouraged as the Yates family shares their journey of obedience.

“Our life was comfortable and getting easier. Our three biological kids were 7, 9, and 10, and we were in a really sweet spot in our family. But God kept allowing a holy discontentment to linger. Jayme and I continued to pray, asking the Lord to show us what he was preparing for us. We sensed, like in Isaiah 6, that we were supposed to say yes before knowing what he would call us to. So in April 2018, we put our ‘yes’ on the table, and the Lord quickly confirmed that he was calling us to an adoption journey.
He also confirmed that it was supposed to be a little girl somewhere in India. So we set out on the journey. Even though we had been warned, we didn’t realize that it would be such a roller-coaster ride of emotions—yet it was an incredible time of seeing God’s provision and faithfulness. The Lord was so gracious in his generosity through his people both financially and spiritually as our community rallied around us.
One year after the Lord called us to adopt, he led us to a 3 year old little girl in India. We became an official family of six August 3, 2019. Ruthie Mae has now been home for over three years, and it seems as if she was born into our family. Certainly the Lord knew when he created her that she would bless us more than we could bless her. In the last three years she has fought through many surgeries and defied many medical professionals. After not walking her first three years, she is now walking all over the place with only minor assistance. And after needing a shunt to drain fluid off her brain all of her life, she has been weaned from that device. God is faithful and has surely shown us his goodness.
The Lord has been so kind and faithful to us through the precious gift of this child. I’m thankful that he led us into this territory so that he could show his goodness to us through this adoption journey.”

09/27/2022

🎉Testimony Tuesday!🎉

Be encouraged by the Bean Family’s testimony to how God led them to fostering and adoption!

Late one evening when we lived in Corpus Christi we received a call from our pastor’s wife. CPS was about to remove the son of a young woman who had recently started attending our church. Our pastor’s wife asked us to pray about opening our home to this child. Our initial reaction was that this wasn’t a good time in our lives to do this. All we could think about were the reasons that this would inconvenience us. However, we agreed to pray about it. Over the next 12 hours, the Lord radically changed our hearts from “now’s not a good time,” to “God is undeniably calling us to step into this child’s life.” That’s how we first entered foster care. Once we stepped into this journey for this one little boy, we realized just how many other little ones out there need people to step in for them and we were never the same.

Foster care is a beautiful roller coaster of love and grief, joy and pain. It has brought deep grief into our home as we have had to say goodbye to children whom we love and have grown deeply attached to. But it is a grief we will continue bearing time and time again, in order to show these kids the same kind of love the Father has lavished upon us. Foster care and adoption have revealed to us more of our Heavenly Father than we could have ever possibly known! Just as Jesus stepped down into humanity to intercede on our behalf, so we hope to step into the broken places of this world to intercede on behalf of vulnerable families. However, foster care has also brought us one of our absolute greatest treasures and joy. Our middle child was adopted from foster care and we cannot fathom our lives without him!

After moving to the DFW area, one of the biggest things that drew us to Fielder is its heart for foster care and adoption. There is no way we could do this journey alone. Our community group at Fielder South Oaks is filled with wonderful, caring, selfless people who have jumped into this journey alongside us and provided incredible support, love, and prayer. Fielder Church is a place where people truly grasp and embody the gospel!

09/20/2022

💕Testimony Tuesday!💕
Hear from the Diaz Family about their adoption journey!

“Even before we met, God had laid it on each of our hearts that he wanted us to adopt some day. On our first date, we talked about how we both would love to adopt as well as have biological children. After many pregnancy losses, the Lord was very clearly telling us to pursue adoption. Adoption was always God’s plan for us and never a second option. After Adoption Sunday at Fielder Church in November 2020, we knew it was time to start the process.

We matched in June 2022 with our sweet daughter Lucia. We immediately clicked with her birth mom and we have a wonderful relationship. I (Kristen) had the amazing experience of being in the room when Lucia’s birth mom had the c-section. It was the most incredible experience to see our daughter and meet her the second she was brought into the world. I will never forget that moment and the immense gratitude and gratefulness I had for this amazing gift that the Lord had given us. Charlie was able to come in during visiting hours and meet our sweet girl. He immediately fell in love! We took her home 4 days later and she’s doing wonderful!

When we look back on this entire process, we are in complete awe of how the Lord worked. We met so many incredible people and heard their testimonies of how God has moved in their lives - people we never would have met were it not for the Lord calling us to adoption. We are eternally grateful for everyone that prayed, supported, and helped us bring home sweet Lucia. God is good ALL the time and His plan is always better than ours.”

09/13/2022

🎉Testimony Tuesday!🎉
Hear from the Pickering family about their journey with fostering and adoption!👇🏻

“I have wanted to foster since I was a little girl. A friend of mine went into care and I begged my family to go get her. It was not something they wanted to do since my friend was severely disabled. I promised to take care of her but it was not something my parents could handle.

Once Scott and I got married we wanted to have kids right away, and we did, we had 4 of them. We always wanted a big family. We love kids. The first time we had a child that was not biologically ours in our home, it wasn’t exactly foster care, we were stationed in Germany and we had the opportunity to take care of another soldier’s baby until the child’s grandparents could come and get him.

We have fostered off and on since 2004, in 3 different states- TN, NV and now TX. In February of 2021 right before our move to Texas, we adopted our youngest son through foster care from Las Vegas, NV where we were living at the time. He is now almost 3 years old. We have raised this lil’ guy since his discharge from the NICU and weaned him from drugs that were in his system when he was born. He is definitely a blessing to our family.
We have been fostering in Texas now for just about a year. During that time, we have fostered 4 children in our home, so often, we have 6 children in our home. Everyday is a little crazier than the last but we love our life. We hope to adopt one more time so that our littlest has a sibling closer to his age, but who knows what God has in-store for us. In this season we feel as though this is where God needs us to be. So we will continue to open our doors and our hearts.”

08/30/2022

🎉Testimony Tuesday!🎉

Hear from the Philip Family about God’s call to pursue adoption!

“We have ten children (five girls/five boys). Our oldest three children are our biological children and our youngest seven are biological siblings of one another who we adopted from foster care.

My husband Christo and I discussed adoption even before we were married….I joke that the first interesting thing I remember him saying was that someday he wanted to have a large family and he wanted adoption to be a part of that. We initially were involved in foster care while we were lived in Minnesota but had our hearts broken watching a child placed in a terrible situation because of a court decision. We decided that we would focus on adoption in the future. Our family spent 2013-2016 serving at a mission hospital in north India and actually began to pursue an adoption at that time but due to the staffing difficulties of that hospital we decided to delay moving forward with the adoption until our second term which we anticipated would begin in 2017. However, we were unexpectedly deported in 2016. At that time we sensed that maybe one of the reasons God had for bringing us back to the US was to open up the time to pursue an adoption from foster care.

We were matched in February of 2017 with a sibling group of five who were split up in foster care. One of our driving convictions throughout this process has been that children deserve to stay with their siblings, they should not be split apart because of decisions or choices that are out of theIr control. We welcomed the oldest four to our family in April and June of 2017 and then embarked on a legal battle to reunite them with their younger sister. She finally joined us in January 2018. By May of that year all five of those adoptions were finalized and we were riding off into the sunset as a family of ten. Then On August 1, 2018 the phone rang and it was our caseworker. I thought she was just calling to check in on us. In fact, she was calling to let us know that the kids had a baby sister who was in an emergency shelter. Woah! We reminded ourselves that we believed in siblings and said, “Yes!”. Roughly a year later we got another call about another sister…which is how we ended up with ten kids. Yes, we're surprised too! 🙂

Our primary motivation was God’s great love for us. We have been greatly loved, sacrificially loved, faithfully loved! Doesn’t God long for His people to extend love like His to the most vulnerable populations? His heart for the vulnerable is woven throughout the Bible and marks Jesus' own ministry here on earth. Now, is there anyone more vulnerable than a child without a family to call their own? We don’t want our lives to be about ourselves, our comfort or our convenience…is it right to just enjoy our own abundant life while there are children waiting for something so basic? A family?

It is hard, it is overwhelming (sometimes minute by minute) and it is wearying to help children with broken hearts heal. But it is also so rewarding to watch miracles unfold before your eyes as they heal and as God binds all our hearts together. We have struggled greatly with our younger kids’ confusion about why God…who is all knowing and all loving and all powerful….allowed them to suffer both with their birth family and during their time in foster care. The kids who were older when they were adopted have struggled with the yes we said to their siblings because they were babies at that time and it doesn’t seem fair that they had a chance to join our family at a younger age.

One great, unexpected blessings is that all our kids are mixed races…they come from different backgrounds but yet they all look similar enough that people don’t immediately guess adoption. (They just want to give me their thoughts about family size and what to do about this! 😀) This has proven to be protective for our younger children who are free to share about their life experiences if they want but don’t have those questions forced on them constantly because of how our family looks.

If you are on the fence, we would encourage you to take the leap! It will be so challenging and you will need to lean on God as you never have before but it will be so, so worth it! All children are valuable in God’s sight and doesn’t it delight His own heart as our Father when He “sets the lonely in families”?”

08/24/2022

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Reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions!🏥