Unified Gift Triennial Meeting 2024
Orphan Care Alliance serves three different populations in the spectrum of child welfare. Each ministry area is attuned to the population being served and works to provide positive outcomes through our own programs and in collaboration with many other organizations.
The national board is excited to award the Unified Gift to Orphan Care Alliance (OCA). They are a wonderful organization that is great in addressing orphan children’s issues and supporting their adoptive families, families in crisis and aging out foster care youth.
Family Preservation
The Family Preservation Ministry focuses on keeping biological families together. Most times, other organizations refer families on the verge of foster care to the Family Preservation ministry, where there is a variety of options from temporary care of children in an approved home to walking beside mom and dad to acquire the needed resources to regain stability.
Family Support
The Family Support Ministry focuses on the family choosing foster or adoption. The agency works with them from learning about different options and until children are in the home. And that is when the journey begins. Raising children from a traumatic background is very different and the Family Support Ministry stays with them along the way offering support groups, individual support, resources, and training.
Life Coaching
For children in the foster care system who are 12 and older, adoption and a forever family becomes less of a reality. OCA’s Life Coaching ministry pairs a Life Coach with a child, 12 years old and up, currently or previously in foster care. Life Coaching is also available for adopted children, age 12 and up. A Life Coach is a trusted adult in a child’s life who works to prepare them for transition to adulthood. Statistics show that a child has a better outcome when they have a Life Coach.
Regional Ministry
In the back drop of these serving ministries, OCA has regional ministry leaders whose primary objective is to meet with churches and understand how their current activities and passion intersect care for vulnerable families and children in their communities. Work is fueled by churches and church members throughout the state. OCA’s goal is to help the church be the hands and feet of Christ to vulnerable children and that the body of Christ creates a meaningful and lasting impact for these families and their children. The second goal of regional ministry leaders is to meet individuals and organizations interested in working with them and finding a place of need to grow the number they serve.
Orphan Care Alliance walks with churches desiring to serve those who struggle to care for vulnerable families, those who are in/or out of foster care, and those who have chosen to be foster, adoptive, relative caregivers. Orphan Care Alliance helps churches find the right level of engagement for their church. The church absolutely must be leading the way in orphan care. It’s not negotiable; it flows from the reality of the gospel.
You can learn more about Orphan Care Alliance’s program or contact them on their website: https://www.orphancarealliance.org/
- Your gift of $50.00 covers the background check every volunteer must have that is always paid by OCA.
- A gift of $100.00 covers the cost of one home study before children can come into the home of a safe Harbor Care Gamily.
- A gift of $50.00 covers the purchase of a child’s backpack with toiletries.
- $75.00 will provide scholarship for their Family Coaching.
Orphan Care Alliance is a 501(c)3 tax exempt nonprofit and will mail yearly giving reports at the end of each calendar year.
To give, please complete the following online donation form or if you wish to send a check, please make it payable to: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS)
Mail to:
Karen Patterson
Orphan Care Alliance
P. O. Box 1866
Dade City, FL 33526