PorchLight Ministry

FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE MINISTRIES

Porch Light seeks to provide community for OMPC members who are fostering children, to equip those desiring to foster, and to encourage those pursuing adoption. Contact Becky Gibbens, our Porch Light Ministry Coordinator, for more information, ways to be involved or if you are a foster, adoptive, or kinship family.

Porch Light is the Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM) for Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church.

God’s heart for His people is the “pure religion” of James 1:27 – that we would “visit widows and orphans in their affliction.” Caring for orphans and children in foster care is not only for those who adopt or foster children.  But it is for everyone who desires “pure religion.” Foster, adoptive, and kinship families need a community to surround them in their calling and this is how we can all be involved.

Events

Porch Light Ministry Lunch & Learn | November 17, 12:00 pm

Join us for lunch as we learn how to join "Care Portal" through Porch Light. Care Portal meets the needs of vulnerable and broken families in the neighborhoods near OMPC. Care Portal instantly connects you to the urgent, real-time needs such as a bed, a car seat, rent assistance, and more. Click the button to sign up for lunch and learn more about how you can serve through this ministry. 

VOLUNTEER WITH PORCHLIGHT:

  • Bringing weekly meals

  • Supplying or sourcing practical needs(bunk beds, stollers, car seats, clothing)

  • Transporting children to appointments

  • Mentoring children

  • Coordinating volunteers to serve a family

  • Become trained to provide respite care

CARE COMMUNITIES:

Care Communities are one tool FAMs use to provide support to vulnerable children and families in need. 

Parents who foster or adopt need to know they’ll be well-supported when a child arrives in their home. Kinship care families also need support as they raise their grandchildren, nieces, or nephews.  All these children have unique needs and require intentional focus from their new caregivers. Supporting these families in practical, hands-on ways provides a healthier context for a child’s transition into their new home.

Interesting fact about Care Communities: The national average of families who continue fostering after their first year is about 50%, but when supported by a FAM and its Care Communities, 90% continue fostering into a second year.

Contact Becky Gibbens, PorchLight Coordinator: