Bethany Christian Services
Help a child into a family with Bethany
One of the largest Christian family-services agencies in the US: foster care, adoption, help keeping struggling families together, and support for refugee and unaccompanied children. You can foster or adopt through a local branch.
Why this is listed
It puts real weight on keeping a family together before it ever comes to adoption, which is the right order and the harder work. It is large and operates through local branches whose openings vary, so the listing points a would-be foster or adoptive parent to their own state rather than a national form.
How to start
- Open bethany.org (opens an external site) and read what Bethany Christian Services says about itself before you read anything else.
- Check the time it asks for: ongoing.
- Look at the filings below, then decide. Numbers are context, not a verdict.
- Tell your church. Going out is rarely meant to be done alone.
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- Time
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- Where
- United States
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- Time
- One-off
- Where
- Online
- Area
- Orphan & foster care
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- Time
- Ongoing
- Where
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- Area
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Before you go
Something to read, watch or listen to before you show up. From Ripened Harvest; the picks change each day.
- Family & childrenProvisional
The Pilgrim's Progress (animated)
RevelationMedia
A computer-animated feature film of John Bunyan's allegory, following Christian from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Made for family viewing and translated into many languages for use overseas.
- Cost
- Varies
- Time
- One-off
- Where
- Online
- Who for
- Older children · Film
Last verified October 24, 2026
- Family & childrenVerified
The Torchlighters: Heroes of the Faith
Christian History Institute
Half-hour animated biographies of real Christians — Tyndale, Perpetua, John Bunyan, Corrie ten Boom, Richard Wurmbrand, Jim Elliot, Harriet Tubman, Adoniram and Ann Judson. Each episode takes one life, one crisis, and one decision, and is aimed squarely at eight- to twelve-year-olds.
- Cost
- Varies
- Time
- Weeks
- Where
- Online
- Who for
- Older children · Series
Last verified September 8, 2026
- Reading plansProvisional
F260 Foundations Bible Reading Plan
Replicate Ministries
A 260-day plan that reads the storyline of all 66 books in one year at five readings a week, built for whole churches and families to read together. Each day uses the H.E.A.R. journaling method: highlight, explain, apply, respond.
- Cost
- Varies
- Time
- Months
- Where
- Online
- Format
- Reading plan · Introductory
Last verified October 24, 2026
