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Welcome to Springs of Love

Join us as we share inspiring real stories of families touched by fostering and adoption, while also helping families discern and live out the call to foster and adopt. Come here to learn more about the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees), as well as how to get involved with helping vulnerable children in foster care either through fostering or supporting a foster family. If you are discerning if you might be called to foster or adopt, please sign up for our free Be Not Afraid virtual retreat to receive immediate access.

Do you have a story of adoption or fostering to share? We need writers who have a passion for fostering and adopting, as well as administrative and design help. Contact us for more information. Please pray that God prospers this work of His hands. Thank you!

Adoption Love

Share the Adoption Love!

Explore our new section, Adoption Love! Featuring stories and videos from Adoptees, Adoptive Parents, and Birth Families, check out our content to learn about all sides of the Adoption Triad.

Share the Adoption Love

Stop Child Trafficking – Fight Back by Fostering!

Every year, thousands of children in our country are victims of human trafficking, and as many as 80% of victims rescued from sex trafficking have been in the foster care system. Please help us spread awareness of this issue, and learn how you can fight back by fostering (or through another suggestion in our list of 7 Ways You Can Help Stop Child Trafficking)!

Fight Back by Fostering
Image from National Catholic Register article, August 2023
Dr. Kimberly Henkel interview on Women of Grace, May 2023

Adoption: Wellspring of Love

Women of Grace visits with Kimberly Henkel, co-founder of Springs in the Desert, during Foster Care Awareness Month. Together, they discuss Springs of Love, the option to adopt, and the call to provide a home for children in foster care. May 2023.

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Fostering Love

Check out section celebrating foster families with stories, videos, and articles. Learn about Fostering Love!

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Learn about Foster Teams
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Register for our Foster & Adoption Virtual Retreat

Register for our virtual Be Not Afraid retreat!

Have you wondered if God might be calling you to open your heart to foster or adopt a child? Register for our virtual “retreat” and receive a code for free access to our “Be Not Afraid” discernment video series. In this self-paced series, you will hear beautiful testimonials from couples who have answered the call to foster and adopt. Talks address fostering & adopting after infertility, adopting a child with special needs, international & domestic adoption, adoption from foster care, grieving when foster children leave, adopting older children, what to do when only one spouse feels called, and more. Register today!

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Video Stories

Watch our inspiring, original video stories of former foster youth, foster families, and adoptive families.

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We are celebrating Adoptees at Springs of Love! Please join us in our prayer for all the children and adults who have been adopted. You are LOVED! #catholicfosterprogram #catholicfosterhouse #catholicfosterparents #catholicadoption #fosterlove #adoptionlove #prolife #prolifeforlife #columbuscatholicdiocese #saintjosephcathedral #columbuscatholic #columbuscatholicschools #columbuscatholicdiocese #dioceseofsteubenville #archdioceseofcincinnati #adoption #adoptionislove
Dear Jesus, Thank you for the beautiful mothers who bring love into the world with the birth of their children. We ask that You shower down Your protection and blessings on all birth mothers, those women whose wombs bore a child who would one day be raised by another. We pray for women who chose adoption, entrusting their own flesh to another’s arms. We pray for women who had no choice, but who were unable to parent because of their circumstances. Merciful Jesus, who were Yourself fostered on earth by St. Joseph, run with open arms to embrace any birth mother who right now finds herself in a moment of doubt or shame or guilt or self-loathing. Show her she is not alone. Fill any wounds with the salve of Your blazing love that knows no limits. Dear Mama Mary, be a mother now to any woman who, while so truly a mother, is not raising the child she bore. Wrap your mantle of protection around her. Hold her in your arms whenever she may long to hold in hers the child she cannot now embrace. Lord Jesus, come to any birth mother who is now in pain and fill her with the true peace that only You can give. Comfort her heart so that she may know that she will forever be imprinted in the heart of her child and that her sacrifice will not be forgotten. Amen. #catholicfosterprogram #catholicfosterhouse #catholicfosterparents #catholicadoption #fosterlove #adoptionlove #prolife #prolifeforlife #columbuscatholicdiocese #saintjosephcathedral #columbuscatholic #columbuscatholicschools #columbuscatholicdiocese #dioceseofsteubenville #archdioceseofcincinnati #adoption #adoptionislove
So grateful The National Catholic Register is helping us bring awareness to the link between fostering and human trafficking. https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/fight-child-trafficking-by-fostering We can fight trafficking by fostering or supporting a foster family!
As many as 80% of victims rescued from sex trafficking have been in the foster care system, and approximately 44% of runaways from foster care become victims of sex trafficking. FIGHT BACK by FOSTERING or supporting a foster family. Go to https://springsoflove.org/fostering-love/stop-child-trafficking/ for more info! #endhumantrafficking #fosteringlove #catholicfosterprogram #catholicfosterhouse #catholicfosterparents #waitnomoreofficial #catholicadoption #fosterlove #adoptionlove #prolife #prolifeforlife
Please consider hosting a foster care awareness event at your parish! Contact info@springsoflove.org to find out how!
How can you support the foster families in your Church? Can you make a meal for them once a month? Help with babysitting once in a while? Drive the kiddos to a visit with their birthparents? Everyone can do something! #catholicfosterprogram #catholicfosterhouse #catholicfosterparents #catholicadoption #fosterlove #adoptionlove #prolife #prolifeforlife #columbuscatholicdiocese #saintjosephcathedral #columbuscatholic #columbuscatholicschools #columbuscatholicdiocese #dioceseofsteubenville #archdioceseofcincinnati #nationalfostercaremonth #nationalfostercareawarenessmonth #adoption #adoptionislove
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