FOSTER CARE ROUNDTABLE
by JOHN W. KENNEDY on March 11, 2021
Thirty ministry leaders, many delivering passionate pleas for cooperation, gathered Wednesday for the inaugural Assemblies of God foster care roundtable. They concurred that the Fellowship is poised to become an influential force alongside the country’s foster care system, which currently oversees 437,000 children who have been removed from their homes.
Through its CompaCare wraparound model, COMPACT Family Services has become a leading faith-based agency in the U.S.
Dr. Bob W. Griffith, teaching pastor at Journey Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, suggested that retaining already-involved foster parents is just as important as recruiting new families. Griffith and his wife, Wendy, have adopted three children. Using the CompaCare wraparound model, Journey Church has implemented a program called 1Hope creating a network support system among multiple area congregations.
“If churches work together, there won’t be any wait for foster kids,” said Griffith, noting that 30 percent of all families in Kenosha County attend Journey Church. “We’ve changed policy at a local level because the Church has decided to be the tip of the spear on this issue. Jesus came to raise up the vulnerable to be oaks of righteousness.”
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Foster Care Roundtable
Thirty ministry leaders, many delivering passionate pleas for cooperation, gathered Wednesday for the inaugural Assemblies of God foster care roundtable. They concurred that the Fellowship is poised to become an influential force alongside the country’s foster care system, which currently oversees 437,000 children who have been removed from their homes.