Dear Friends and Family,
There are many ways to start a family. We are overjoyed to announce that we have decided to grow our family through foster care. We have made the decision to become long term foster parents with the hopes of adopting through the foster system. Every year 250,000 children enter the foster care system, and there are currently 200,000 of those children are waiting to be adopted!
As with any children, we are not guaranteed a specific amount of time together. We may or may not have the opportunity to adopt our foster child(ren). Ultimately, the goal of foster care is to provide children with safe and loving temporary home while working towards reunification with their biological family. But no matter what the love we have will continue to grow in our hearts. The children that enter our home will be our real, chosen, and unconditionally loved sons/daughters, for whom we would do or give anything for.
Foster care is complicated; each child’s situation and story are unique. What we can share with you is that we are not special people because we have chosen to be foster parents. Rather, we are blessed to have been given the opportunity to parent these children, however long they are with us.
As Christians, we have been adopted by a Heavenly Father, 1 John 4:19 says that we love because he first loved us. The Lord has placed a burden on our hearts to care for vulnerable children and we look forward to sharing the love of Christ through caring for them in our home. We are thankful for the kindness and support from our family and friends as we embark on this journey. We are prepared for the ups and downs and the tears of both heartache and joy.
We have decided to accept children and sibling groups 0-8 years old. While we are doing our training we are preparing our home for our future foster children- gathering toys, buying beds, making rooms homey and inviting. If you would like to help us prepare our home while we are doing our training and certification there has been a registry created with some of the things that would make our home a little more inviting for our future foster children: tgt.gifts/katyandgeorgefostering
We welcome you all to ask questions and learn about the foster care system just as we have. We are very excited to have our foster kids join our little family! You can read about our decision to become foster parents, and our journey towards becoming foster parents at our blog: https://perezfosterjourney.family.blog . We are more than happy to answer any questions you may have for us!
Love, Katy and George
Perez Family Foster Journey 