Adoption and CarePortal: What’s the connection?

We recently explained that every time you respond to a request on behalf of a child in your community through CarePortal, your response is intended to accomplish one of 10 purposes. Today, on National Adoption Day, we want to talk […]

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A Different Story for Foster Mom & Family

During this second week of Different December, we’re highlighting a story of God at work through CarePortal. Every community has children and families in crisis. CarePortal provides a real-time, relational connection for churches who want to care for them.

Life can change […]

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Connecting the Church to Grandma's Home

On the east side of Kansas City, a different kind of apartment complex exists. In general, apartment complexes are known for their ability to serve a wide variety of tenants, with each apartment’s features standardized to serve one or […]

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Advice from one CarePortal worker to another

The CarePortal network is filled with servants of the Lord.  There are so many who have sacrificially given to aid those impacted by the child welfare system.  Some were working long before CarePortal: others are new and eager to […]

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Where are we going? A CarePortal Vision . . .

“Piti piti zwazo fè nich li.”
As part of our international ministry, we are deeply invested with church partners in Haiti. In our interactions with our partners, we have come across this Haitian proverb. It states, “Little by little, the […]

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Children helping children

By Taylor Burdiss, CarePortal intern
The CarePortal network includes churches of all sizes, ages, and demographics. The common thread that binds these churches is the longing to serve local children and families in crisis. No need is the same. No response […]

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Like Christmas in July

By Sadie Elliott, CarePortal intern
We are often blessed by stories shared by church members at active CarePortal churches. We hear how meeting a need has impacted them personally, and we hear how their gift has affected the family in need. […]

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What if we don't see the end of the story?

By Sadie Elliott, CarePortal intern
Who doesn’t love a good success story? Superheroes and love stories and underdogs enchant us. Our books, shows, and movies have to have happy endings. But what happens when the storybook ending doesn’t occur? What happens […]

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Miracles are Everywhere

Coincidence. The occurrence of the unlikely. The statistically improbable. The serendipitous.
But what if coincidences are simply modern day miracles?  Those small things that happen at just the right time. Those circumstances in life that feel as though they are […]

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An awakening is happening

“If I don’t, who will?”
How one CarePortal request turned into a divine appointment for an Oklahoman church.

An awakening is happening.
Churches, small groups, and individuals are being stirred by the Spirit, moved into an action. Daily, we hear about the […]

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