By Message Staff
MONROE – The Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home will hold a series of informational meetings for families considering adoption and foster care.
Beginning July 25 at Alpine First Baptist Church in Pineville and ending July 28 at the East Baton Rouge Public Library, Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch in Baton Rouge, the series of meetings will allow those interested to learn more about how they can become part of a growing ministry in the state.
Since becoming involved in this aspect of ministry in 2011, the Children’s Home has served hundreds of children and families through its foster care and adoption ministry. But despite the success they have achieved in this area, it pales in comparison to then more than 4,700 children in need of a foster home in the state.
Through its Connect 1:27 Network, the Children’s Home recruits Christian foster and adoptive families and assists churches in developing foster care, adoption and orphan care support ministries. The network is based upon God’s command in James 1:27, Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Beth Green, director of the Connect 1:27 Network and foster care and adoption ministries at the Children’s Home, said if each of the 1,600 Louisiana Baptist churches would recruit and support at least one foster care family, the end result was change the state.
“There would not be a shortage of loving homes for Louisiana’s most vulnerable children,” Green said. “My prayer is that God is stirring the hearts of Louisiana Baptists to live out James 1:27 and share the love of Christ in word and deed through Foster care and adoption ministries.”
Details on the informational meetings are below:
ALEXANDRIA/PINEVILLE
Monday, July 25
6-7:30 pm
Alpine Baptist Church
7215 Shreveport Hwy
Pineville, LA 71360
For more information, contact Taylor
Taylor@lbch.org or call 318.343.2244
SHREVEPORT
Tuesday, July 26
67:30 pm
First Baptist Greenwood
7042 Howell Street
Greenwood, LA 71033
For more information, contact Ashley
ashley@lbch.org or 318.372.9021
NEW ORLEANS
Tuesday, July 26
6-7:30 pm
First Baptist New Orleans
5290 Canal Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70124
For more information, contact Marissa
marissa@lbch.org or 618.520.2979
MONROE
Tuesday, July 26
6-7:30 pm
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
7200 DeSiard Street
Monroe, LA 71203
For more information, contact Beth
beth@lbch.org or 318.343.2244
BATON ROUGE
Thursday, July 28
6-7:30 pm
East Baton Rouge Public Library
Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch
Meeting Room 1
11300 Greenwell Springs Rd
Baton Rouge, LA 70814
For more information, contact Marissa
marissa@lbch.org or 618.520.2979
