To see the hindsight of God’s incredible plan, I have to start back in 2015. 3 Adults, Many Needs In May of 2015, we took in my 17-year-old special needs nephew while watching my sister die for 6 weeks. She died on June 8th, 2015 and then unexpectedly my mother-in-law...

Mom made a brave choice to trust Safe Families almost six years ago. Sometimes, I think it was for me. Either way, it has been a bridge for two families that never would have been crossed without it.  A very, very, adventurous bridge. A Story of Two Women From Chicago...

We were hosting a sweet baby boy while the child welfare agency was investigating his mom. But yesterday we were overjoyed to receive a call that this precious child was allowed to go back to his mom! What a blessing! It turns out that he was removed from mom's care...

Our journey towards becoming a host family started as many of our God journey’s begin - ignoring the call. Thinking of every excuse: “There isn’t that big of a need”, “Someone else will step up”, "We are far too busy to add this to our plate”, “Maybe when our kids are...

We had been serving with Safe Families for a couple of years but were on a short respite as I had just found out my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. We took a call anyway...Mom had just given birth and we were the perfect match for her little one. I said a...

We're not perfect. We are not rich. We're not remarkable. We don't have a giant home. We don't even have a guest room. We don't have a van. But we do know that when there is a need, God will provide. We might just have a couple of loaves and fish, but when we put what...