Resources

Foster Care: 

Adopt US Kids
This is one of the best online resources for information on how to become a foster parent and/or adoptive home, resources for post adoption and current foster families, success stories, forums and even a photo-list of children that are looking for their forever homes.

Larimer County Foster Care 
If you live in Larimer County and you are interested in becoming a foster family, here is more information on eligibility, the goals of CPS in Larimer County, how to get started and contact information.

Books that Inspire a Missionary Perspective:

Interrupted Bible Study
by Jen Hatmaker

The Gospel and the American Dream. Somehow we've confused the two, trying to fit the message and life of Jesus into our idea of what we deserve. The result is a life spent pursuing comfort, even inside the walls of the church. But God wants to interrupt that pursuit.


Jen Hatmaker was comfortable in her very "churched" life until God interrupted it and led her on a journey of finding adventure, love, meaning… and Jesus. And all those things were waiting at the bottom.


God is interrupting the lives of Christ-followers and His church, reminding them that He cares deeply about issues of justice and mercy. He's calling people to live down, to engage with the poor and the outcasts, and to find Jesus in the faces of the "least of these."


Through a fresh and surprising look at Scripture you've heard before but never taken seriously, Interrupted will frustrate you, make you uncomfortable, and challenge your sensibilities. It's the Bible study no one wants to do because everything might have to change.


Crazy Love
by Francis Chan

Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts — it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same.


Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.