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Homes with Hope, Inc. is a private, non-profit Child-Placing Agency for children in foster care.
Our mission is to restore abandoned, abused or neglected children into homes by establishing them in a community of Christ-centered families who will, in relationship with the local church, foster children and in some cases, even adopt them.
Presently, there are approximately 588,000 children in the foster care system in the United States. This represents 20,000 more children than the year before. Unfortunately, 30% of established foster homes leave fostering each year. Texas is not immune to this epidemic.
Each year in Texas, nearly 50,000 cases of child abuse and neglect are confirmed ... 137 times a day, six times an hour, a child in Texas is being abused or neglected. Houston, Harris County has the third largest population of abused and neglected children in the United States surpassed only by New York and Los Angeles.
The Lord has heard the cries of these children. He desires to provide a loving, secure, compassionate community in which they will be cherished, healed and nurtured to their full potential. We believe that the Lord demonstrates his heart for these children through our expressions of love.
Our Organization
Our Mission Statement
Homes with Hope, Inc. is a private, non-profit Child-Placing Agency for children in foster care.
Our mission is to restore abandoned, abused or neglected children into homes by establishing them in a community of Christ-centered families who will, in relationship with the local church, foster children and in some cases even adopt them.
Our History
The foundations for Homes with Hope, Inc. (HwH) were laid in the summer of 1995 when a group of adult and teenage volunteers from a Houston-area church began weekly visits to a local emergency shelter for teenage girls. The friendships that resulted fostered an on-going relationship that lasted for several years and continues on today. Throughout the years, many of the girls from the shelter became involved in the church community, and their physical and emotional needs became more evident.
In February of 1999, the shelter closed. Within six months another emergency shelter, which served children ranging in ages from birth to 13 years, approached the church about providing similar support. The second shelter received continuous support for the next two years.
At that point, the service to that shelter ended. But a vision was born for a means of providing a new kind of support: an entire virtual community taking responsibility for both the foster families and children. That became the foundation for Homes with Hope.