South Texas Alliance For Orphans
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The South Texas Alliance for Orphans exists to support, equip and encourage churches in fulfilling the biblical orphan care mandate through their families.
EVERYONE DOING SOMETHING
We hope to see every orphan loved by a Christian family,
every foster/adopt home supported by their local church,
and every local church connected and working together on behalf of this calling.
We hope to see vulnerable families surrounded with care and supported through hard times.
HISTORY
The South Texas Alliance for Orphans was created by a group of foster/adopt industry veterans including our Founder and Executive Director, church leaders, foster/adopt families and child placing agency professionals in 2012 under the name San Antonio Alliance for Orphans. We met monthly for 2 years collaborating on how we the church could unite and fulfill our biblical mandate to care for orphans in the foster/adopt system.
A small team including our Executive Director, a board member and a small team of foster parents successfully launched a ministry at their church and started handing off the model to other churches desiring to see ministry happen in their church.
Over the years, our Executive Director gleaned wisdom from other area models across the state and nation like Fostering Hope Austin, Embrace Texas, Hope Fort Worth, Project 127, Promises 686 and Christian Alliance for Orphans In 2015, the name of the Alliance was changed to more adequately represent the region we serve of South Texas.
In September of 2016, First Presbyterian granted the Alliance seed money to launch as a DBA non-profit. The Alliance is now poised to equip, educate and support a collaborative church movement to solve the foster crisis from family crisis to youth aging out.
IMPACT
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AGENCIES & NONPROFITS WORKING TOGETHER
CHURCHES CURRENTLY INVOLVED
