Foster & Adoptive Families Need Your Help

"Gloriously hard." I recently heard an adoptive parent describe foster care and adoption this way, and it has stayed with me ever since. It captures something deeply true — the tension between real challenges and the life-giving joy that comes with welcoming a child home.

We aim to help foster and adoptive families through their hardest days — because those are often the moments that determine whether a family can continue. When families are supported, they are twice as likely to foster again and far more likely to remain strong and together.

Let me introduce you to the Kovalenko family. When war came to Ukraine, Aleksiy and Daryna chose to stay — and do something even harder. They said yes to fostering three children who had nowhere else to go.

Halyna, 7, Danylo, 4, and Serhiy, 3, are siblings who had known little of safety or care. Their father died, their mother was unable to care for them, and they grew up hungry and without stability. When Aleksiy and Daryna learned about all three siblings, they couldn't bear to separate them — so they said yes to all three, welcoming them alongside their biological son, Bohdan, 10. A year later, they officially adopted all three siblings.

It is a beautiful story, but one that needs support right now. Raising four children — three healing from trauma and neglect — is demanding under any circumstance. In a country at war, it is entirely more. Today, the Kovalenkos need $3,025 for critical home repairs, electricity and heat, and trauma therapy for the children. Will you help this family through one of their hardest seasons?

When you give, your generosity can protect children in family and reach foster and adoptive families across Ukraine, Romania, and beyond — families doing the courageous work of keeping children out of orphanages. Your gifts can help cover what families need most: food, clothing, utility bills, therapeutic care, and other necessities that make the difference between survival and thriving.

"The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow." Psalm 146:9

Will you give today to be a part of that story?

Thank you for standing with foster and adoptive families — and ensuring that their "gloriously hard" becomes a story of perseverance, healing, and lasting family.