05/15/2026
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May is Foster Care Awareness Month.
Church…
this is for us.
Not the government.
Not “the system.”
Not social workers already carrying impossible caseloads.
Us.
Because somewhere along the way, the Church got really good at talking about vulnerable children while staying comfortably distant from them.
We will preach about Moses in the basket…
but ignore the child entering care with their belongings in a garbage bag.
We will quote “defend the fatherless”…
but go silent when foster parents are drowning, kinship caregivers are desperate, and teenagers in care are begging for someone to stay.
We will spend hours debating theology while children sleep in DSS offices because there are not enough homes.
How are we okay with that?
How are we okay singing “Way Maker” on Sunday while children wonder where they will sleep that night?
How are we okay crying during worship but refusing to inconvenience ourselves for the brokenhearted people sitting beside us?
Because foster care is not a trendy ministry.
It is not a photo opportunity.
It is not a sermon illustration.
It is trauma.
It is grief.
It is children waking up terrified in homes they’ve never seen before.
It is biological parents fighting addiction, poverty, abuse, mental illness, and cycles they were born into.
It is foster parents breaking under the weight of loving children that will leave.
It is caseworkers burned out and overwhelmed.
It is teenagers aging out believing nobody came for them.
And the Church should be the FIRST place running toward that pain.
But too often?
We hand people a prayer and call it enough.
No.
The Gospel has never been about standing at a distance.
Jesus moved toward people.
Toward the hurting.
Toward the abandoned.
Toward the messy situations everyone else avoided.
And if we are truly following Him, then why are so many families carrying this burden alone?
Some churches can fill entire auditoriums but cannot find five people willing to babysit for foster parents.
Some churches will raise thousands for conferences but will not help a kinship grandma buy beds for the children she unexpectedly took in.
Some believers will post “every child deserves love” while never once asking foster families in their own church what they actually need.
And listen carefully:
this is not condemnation.
This is conviction.
Because imagine what would happen if the Church actually became the Church.
Imagine if no foster family felt alone.
Imagine if no child entered care without a support system waiting.
Imagine if reunifying parents had mentors, meals, rides, and real community.
Imagine if every overwhelmed caseworker knew there were believers ready to help carry the load.
Imagine if vulnerable children were treated like our responsibility instead of somebody else’s problem.
We keep asking why the world is so broken while refusing to step into the broken places.
Awareness is not enough anymore.
Children do not need another awareness month.
They need people willing to be inconvenienced.
People willing to sacrifice.
People willing to love when it costs something.
Church…
if our faith never moves our hands, our homes, our schedules, our money, our comfort, or our priorities…
Then what exactly are we doing?
