While vacationing with friends in KL, Vivienne Ng was invited to share on "Biblical Hospitality & Fostering" at her good friend (ex-flatmate)'s cell group from Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC). About 30 adults & kids attended both in-person & online. Vivienne shared about her family's journey to fostering, & her initial struggle to obey this clear biblical mandate. Unlike other ministries which are usually carried out outside before retreating into the safe castle of our homes, biblical hospitality involves bringing ministry right into one's home & family. While her parents were originally unsupportive of her fostering, they hv since embraced her foster kids, who call them grandma and grandpa (when he was alive). She challenged cell group members to pray, to move out of their comfort zones and to open their hearts and homes to those in need, even if it can be inconvenient. More than talking about our faith, bible hospitality models to...

Blessed to hear Jam Buen share again with us about what God is doing tru Generations-Home in the Philippines. They are working to end the orphan crisis there through fostering and adoption, and supporting preg moms in crisis. There are 1.8 mil orphans in the Philippines, over 6 mil kids in out of home care or on the streets - this is as big as the population in SG!!! In 5 years, Generations Home has supported 74 moms, and thru these moms helped 198 children. One of only 4 adoption agencies in the whole country, they are now journeying with 86 families adopting tru them. If u wanna support their work, pl check the link https://www.generationshome.org/singapore

  15 May 2022 - We just completed a private screening of a film of fostering in China with Care for Children ! We partnered The Salvation Army Singapore for this. It was amazing to hear foster children in China share how their lives have been changed through fostering. We are humbled and amazed by the impactful work of Robert Glover and how there is over a million children in foster care now instead of orphanages because of his obedience to God! If there is anyone who was at the event today and didn’t have time to indicate your interest either in helping grow family based care and fostering overseas (there are more than 8 million kids in orphanages internationally) or help fostering in Singapore (open to foster or befriend kids/families), please PM us! *Special thanks to Salvation Army friends who mobilised their congregations and staff to make this happen in less than 14 days! You guys rock! *And deep appreciation to HFG-SG members who volunteered today and helped to spread the w...

  Session on "The Voice of the Local Church in the WWO (World without Orphans) Movement" in the Global Forum for the WWO: 1) Vivienne Ng sharing about what churches & HFG-SG are doing in SG to provide foster families to kids who needs family care. 2) Shelton Taguma & Remmy Hamapande sharing about the work of Forgotten Voices in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, where a total of 5126 orphans have been impacted through the provision of family-based care via 59 partners. 3) Jodi Jackson-Tucker from Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) sharing about the reach of Orphan Sunday into 101 countries, as a mean to promote awareness of the orphan crisis and to galvanize the churches to action.

  It’s a fan girl moment with Elli Oswald from Faith To Action Initiative at the Global Forum for World Without Orphans! We have been so blessed by their high quality, research based and sensitive materials to educate the Christian community on the need to support families instead in perpetuating orphanage care for vulnerable children in mission fields! We use their materials for churches and Christians in Singapore who approach us on how to best help vulnerable children in mission fields! Do you know that UNICEF research shows that 70-90% of kids in orphanages have at least one living family member? Outcomes for kids in family based care such as foster care and kinship care are better too! You can find out more in Faith To Action's link! https://www.faithtoaction.org/start-here/ If you are a church or Christian supporter looking to transition from orphanage to family based care in the mission field, they even developed a guidance manual for this! https://www.faithtoaction.org...

HFG-SG folks were at The Justice Conference Asia, held for the 1st time in SG, & org by Daniel Chua's church & others. Joy, Vi, Mercy, Lydia, Amy etc, were involved in diff ways - speaking, supporting, attending, organizing etc!! And professionals working with vulnerable children & Epworth Fostering Agency were there too!!! Sobering bible verses cited by keynote speaker Rev Eugene Cho, founder of One Day's Wages, remind us again of what is truly important to God... “I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making. I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time you sang to me ? Do you know what I want? I want justice—oceans of it. I want fairness—rivers of it. That’s what I want. That’s all I want." Amos 5:21-24 (MSG) Ken Wytsma unders...

HFG believes that children grow best in families and communities even in mission fields! We are happy to play a part in the World Vision Singapore event, Love Never Fails, earlier today! Audrie Siew , a member of our HFG core leadership, was on the panel in her personal capacity. World Vision moved away from orphanages a very long time ago and takes a far more effective and holistic community based approach when addressing the needs of vulnerable children in regions they serve. It was just amazing to hear the sharing from Archbishop Jackson (from Kenya) and @Merlyn Guillermo (from Philippines), who were World Vision sponsored children and how God worked in their lives! Audrie shared about the importance of attachment (relationship with a warm caring and consistent adult) to the growth of vulnerable children, the need to develop families and communities in order to help vulnerable children sustainably and the problems of children when taken away from their families/communities and pla...

Some of us from HFG visited Hagar Singapore yesterday! Hagar is an international organisation dedicated to the recovery of women and children who have endured extreme abuses. They are working to see communities free and healed from the trauma of human slavery, trafficking and abuse. We heard such good stories of their work in Singapore and in Asia! We were so touched by how they even closed down their institutions and moved to foster care in Cambodia! They are reaching out to churches for support! You can check them out at  https://hagar.org.sg.   Hagar Singapore if your church has a heart for vulnerable children and young people, working with a Christian organization like Hagar could impact lives more effectively and sustainably than setting up orphanages! 

18 March 2018 - Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great sharing by Ruslan (International facilitator for World Without Orphans) and Alex (Regional Medical Director of Bless China and foster parent) today! Thank God for a wonderful crowd! Ruslan shared on the importance of families to care for a vulnerable child, instead of using orphanages. As Christians, we were spiritual orphans until we were adopted into God's family! God sets the lonely in families. Orphans are loosely defined as those who are not able to stay with their own families due to reasons such as war, child abduction, abuse, neglect or loss of parents. There are about 9 million children in the world who need temporary or permanent families. There is a similar number of churches in the world! Christians can transform nations by stepping forward to be the safe stable and nurturing family for the children. There is no need to be perfectly wise and healthy to transform the nation. Our God is able. He shared that the...

  2 May 2017 - So blessed by Ruslan Maliuta's sharing about the World without Orphans movement. For us providing foster care & befriending, we can be encouraged by the stories of what God is doing in many countries in the world through Christians willing to step out in faith to care for orphans.  As Ruslan said, fostering and adoption is not for everyone but everyone can do something!! It takes prayer, mindset change, examples that break the trend, God's conviction & church support to make lasting and widespread changes in a country and to mainstream the weird notion of bringing a stranger into our homes. Nov 2015 - Some foster carers from HFG SG met up with Ruslan Maliuta from World Without Orphans. Ruslan Maliuta serves as International Facilitator of the World Without Orphans (WWO) movement and his passion is to advocate for the fatherless. It was an encouraging exchange of ideas and thoughts about Foster care, adoption and family preservation. 

22 March 2016 - HFG-SG is privileged to have Dr Viv Thomas, Associate Director of OM International share with all of us.  Dr Viv shared deeply about his personal experience growing up in a troubled family. He shared how God redeemed him and how his foster parents showed him what it means to be cherished and loved. Dr Viv almost teared up when he related to us his foster parents' offer of two eggs and chips for dinner, during his time of need. He encourages the foster parents to press on with the little tiny things during the placement. The two eggs and chips are symbolic of the love and attention he received during his stay. Dr Viv reminded everyone that his foster parents were ordinary people, far from perfect . In spite of their imperfection, they opened their hearts and home to him. Till this day, Dr Viv keeps in touch with them and count them as important figures in his life. Dr Viv reminded us not to foster because it is a good thing to do. But to foster because it is consist...

12 March 2016 - Sharing by Alexandra Jagelman who has lived in Southwest China since 1998, started a home for abandoned children with disabilities, and ministers to children who have been abused. 1. God can do great things - Thru' broken vessels like us, His love is poured out into these most broken of vessels (children in need of protection or care) 2. The importance of reclaiming the lives of these children thru our prayers and proclaiming God's blessings on them constantly and intentionally. 3. There is no need to force a foster child to be emotionally close to us; we just need be present with them, and wait for them to approach . 4. Don't just be busy providing for the physical needs of our foster child but remember to be a mother to the child even if it means your heart will be broken when they leave . 5. It's all about perspective - She once took in 2 special needs babies at a go and found it very hard to cope with the incessant crying. However, when one baby...

Hi from us at the World Without Orphans Forum!! Picture with Krish Kandiah (Home for Good in the UK). It's been amazing to meet like-minded people to whom God has given the same "foolish" dream of a world without orphans. May God awaken the local church in Singapore with the same vision.

  11 Nov 2014 - We are so blessed to have Dr Krish Kandiah, President of London School of Theology and Founder Director of Home For Good UK, with us this afternoon. His sharing on fostering and adoption greatly stirred and moved our hearts. Many children who are in need are waiting for us to respond. We shouldn't keep them waiting any longer. Let's awake to the Father's call to take care of the orphans. 8 Feb 2015 - Dr Krish shares how being Father of the fatherless is central to God's character and encourages foster carers to press on in what they do as their act of worship unto Him. 12 Oct 2015 - Home for Good Singapore is pleased to have been ministered to by Krish Kandiah from Home for Good UK. Home for Good Singapore is modelled after Home for Good UK, a charity helping to find adoptive and foster homes for children in the care system. The HFG SG foster parents had a great time fellowshipping over a wonderful dinner whipped up by Khye Suan from Methodist Childr...