Care Communities are one of the most impactful ways your church can support and strengthen a foster, adoptive, or kinship family in need.
Foster and adoptive families need a community to surround them in their calling. This is how we can all be involved.
Care Community Model
Providing this kind of support is not only impactful for every person in the family being served – but it’s a powerful experience for volunteers who are busy, and yet are still committed to serving through action.
What is a Care Community?
How You Can Serve
Team Leader
This role provides leadership for the Care Community and allows you to get to know the supported family more closely and requires consistency. You’ll make a weekly phone calls to the family and note their childcare needs and prayer requests. You’ll then update the team weekly by email or text. This role can be uniquely filled or combined with any of the roles.
Family Helper
In this role you can serve in many ways that will help your supported family, but mainly by providing a meal once per month. Other ways you can provide support in this role could be helping with errands, extra housework, laundry, yard work, homework, or even babysitting.
Child Mentor
This is a unique opportunity to pour love and encouragement into these vulnerable children. In order to thrive, foster and adoptive parents need the support of dedicated Child Mentors who will sacrificially serve them in this way.
Interim Caregiver
Interim Caregivers serve as overnight caregivers in their home or in the supported family’s home. Respite families also fall under this category of assistance. This role is often fulfilled once volunteers become more familiar with the supported family and trust is built.
Do you feel called to lead?
Take the first step with our Intro to FAMs course through the Promise Serves Learning Management System.