Help a Foster Family
You can show your appreciation and support to foster parents by volunteering to help them out. Here are some ideas:
- offer to babysit for free
- make a meal
- clean the house
- give free diapers and other supplies
- tutor the children
- be a mentor
- ask the family what needs they have and offer to help
Shop Online Gift Catalogs
You can buy items for orphans from online catalogs. Children will enjoy looking through the sites and picking out things to give.
Samaritan’s Purse Catalog
Give an orphan a month’s worth of care, rescue a child from bondage and abuse, and care for orphans with HIV/AIDS.
World Vision
Care for orphans affected by AIDS, share of a home for orphans, send an orphan to school, and the widows and orphans fund.
God’s Kids
Nutrition, shelter, medical help, education, agriculture, physical needs, and leadership
Motivate Christian Families to Adopt
Promote adoption in the church.
- have special guest speakers talk about adoption
- show a movie to raise interest in adoption
- have a sermon about the need for Christians to adopt
- host an adoption workshop
- start an adoption fund for Christian families called to adopt
- have a fund raising event to help with a couple’s adoption expenses
Make and Send Care Packs
Global Aid Network, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, reaches thousands of orphans and other needy children through their Care Packs project. The Care Packs are personally delivered by outreach missionary teams, who also share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the children and their adult caregivers.
You can help by putting together a Care Pack. Items to include are:
- 2 pencils
- 2 ballpoint pens
- 1 package 8-12 colored pencils
- 1 box of crayons (16-24 pack)
- 1 notebook or tablet (6″x7″ minimum)
- 1 ruler (with metric)
- 1 eraser (not pencil top kind)
- 1 small pencil sharpener
- 1 package of colorful stickers
- 1 toothbrush (in original package)
- 1 comb
- 1 letter and photo of you
- 1-2 gallon size “zipper bag”
- $5 per Care Pack to help deliver overseas
To each Care Pack, Global Aid Network will add: a gospel bead bracelet with a printed explanation, a translated copy of a children’s Bible storybook and a book like Josh McDowell’s More Than a Carpenter with the gospel of John.
