Fostering is a calling for the whole Church

From 2018 to 2021 Jo and Steve Squires, along with their three children, fostered multiple babies in quick succession. Jo shares the unexpected realities of responding to God’s call upon their family, and the need for the entire body of Christ to play a part in supporting and raising children in care

“Deep down, we always knew we’d foster,” Jo shares. “Ever since we were married we’ve had an open house, with people constantly coming and going. Hospitality is core to who we are.” For Jo and husband, Steve, there wasn’t a specific moment when they sensed God calling them to foster. It was a steady, growing realisation that welcoming vulnerable children into their home was an obvious thing to do; a progression of the gifts God had given them and a natural expression of the home they had found in his inclusive, accepting kingdom. “We wanted to open our doors to the lost, the lonely, the abandoned, the orphan, just as God has flung wide his doors to us.”