We thank you for your continued support and interest in our ministry of sharing God’s love through foster care and adoption. This year was one of many unexpected blessings.
Our foster care program continued to see growth with the need to hire additional foster workers in CO and TX. We were unexpectedly blessed by a large number of foster families who already had foster placements and transferred to our agency from an agency in Kentucky that went out of business. Additionally, several of our families who had fostered children for 2 or 3 years were ultimately able to finalize their adoptions of these children.
Our international program expanded to include our first matches from Ecuador, Portugal and the Philippines, and we also reopened our Canada adoption program. We also added a new partner agency in Hong Kong to get more referrals of children in need there. Nightlight received a very large grant for families who are adopting older children or those with special needs from Latin America.
In the Snowflakes® embryo adoption program we had a record number of babies born! We also marked the retirement of Kimberly Tyson as Beth Button became the new director of the Snowflakes program. For years we awaited the right person and the right time to hire a nurse with embryology experience for the Snowflakes, and we found Mackenzie Ladsten.
Our Anchored in Hope program is a unique service Nightlight offers to children who are awaiting adoption from foster care. Each of these cases is individual, and we are trailblazing this territory of red tape and interstate agreements. We were able to place 9 Anchored in Hope Children this year. We also had 9 families who had placements last year be able to finalize their adoptions this year.
In 2025 we are looking forward to helping another 450 children get adopted or find foster homes!
