• Interested in attending an Adoptive Families of Emmaus Gathering? Email Cassie at cassie@emmauschurch.com to be added to our email list for quarterly events.
• Are you an Adoptive Mom who is just looking for community?  Connect with our Adoptive Mom Support Group on GroupMe by clicking here.

Emmaus Church has a partnership with Winshape Homes to help families become licensed and open foster homes!  Our hope is to offer on-campus foster licensing classes annually.

Check out this list of ways that Winshape Homes can support you through our partnership:

If you are interested in learning more, email Cassie Adams at cassie@emmauschurch.com.

One of the greatest obstacles to adoption can often be finances – it’s an expensive undertaking that can cause fear for interested families. To help, Emmaus Church has partnered with Promise686 to support families caring for orphans and vulnerable children

Emmaus and Promise partner to provide three different types of grants:

1. Matching Grants: This is the best way to raise the most money for your adoption process!  Apply at the beginning of your adoption journey, and Emmaus Church and Promise686 donors can match your fundraising efforts.
2. Legal Grants: These grants apply specifically to legal fees incurred during the adoption process.
3. Support Grants: These grants provide umbrella support for the variety of needs that you may encounter on your adoption or foster care journey.  Promise686 will first help you connect with any community partners that might can assist with your need.  If none exists, we can then provide financial support.

We do not believe that finances should ever be the barrier that prevents a family from caring for a vulnerable child!

Please apply through Promise686 below.  Any adoptive or fostering family who is a covenant member of Emmaus Church can apply.

Learn more about Promise686 Emmaus Church Grant

Is your family fostering or has your family recently finalized an adoption? Would you benefit from a Care Community, a group from the Emmaus family who can come around a support you?  We would love to connect you with the support you need!

Contact Cassie at cassie@emmauschurch.com for more information.

Other families involved with our ministry have found these books helpful as part of their experiences with foster care and adoption.

Foster Care

• Foster the Family
• Reframing Foster Care
• Filled

Adoption

• 20 Things Adopted Kids Wished Their Parents Knew
• To Have and Not to Hold
• Through Adopted Hearts
• It Takes More than Love

Attachment

• The Connected Child
• The Primal Wound

Parenting

• Discipline that Connects with Your Child’s Heart
• Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors

Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score

Children’s Books

• Made by God
• God Made Me and You
• Twice as Tight
• A Mother for Choco
• I Love You All the Same