CarePortal

We believe that children belong in the care of healthy, loving families. And those families should be supported by their local church and caring members of their community. This philosophy puts the child at the center of everything we do and fundamentally guides our work to ensure a healthier, family-style model of care for every child we serve.

In December 2013, God inspired us with an idea to advance this vision by connecting kids in crisis with churches who can help. We knew that our nation’s most vulnerable children had a caseworker working directly with their family and advocating for their needs. And we knew that local churches, organizations, and community members had the desire and resources to serve those needs. We labored over an innovative way to connect these caring people, in real-time, through the help of technology, to expedite care and foster healthy outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

CarePortal was launched in 2015 by The Global Orphan Project, and since then, the platform has expanded across the nation engaging child welfare agencies, schools, pregnancy centers, churches, businesses, volunteer organizations, and more to facilitate local, proactive, and effective care for kids. It is through this collective impact that we are making real progress to reverse our nation’s foster care crisis and radically change the system, and our society, for the better.

Florida 1.27 (the local arm of CarePortal)

Florida 1.27 is a movement of churches and individuals acting together to radically change the foundation of the child welfare system in Florida. Florida 1.27 partners with churches to engage the community to care for vulnerable children. With a strategic focus on recruiting, equipping, and providing ongoing support, Florida 1.27 works toward fulfilling its vision of having more than enough foster and adoptive families trained, supported, and available to care for vulnerable children in Florida.

Hope Children’s Home cares for neglected, abandoned, and abused children – loving them and equipping them for the future.

Here are four of the main ways we’re doing that:

1. Providing Them with a Loving Family Environment

Every child needs a family – a loving group where their emotional well-being is met, meals are shared, and a godly home is modeled. They need the security and stability a family provides. Together with friends like you, Hope gives these boys and girls the family structure they need, ensuring each child receives unconditional love, discipline, and focused, intentional time so they can thrive!

2. Meeting Their Physical Needs

Children who come to Hope are not juvenile delinquents, but children who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in a situation of needed rescue. Some children simply come out of a situation where a parent just needs a little help.

With the help of friends like you, Hope is here to provide the physical care many of them have been lacking. At Hope, they receive three meals a day, seven days a week. They also have the clothes they need, as well as their own bed and personal space. If any medical needs arise, those are met as well.

3. Pointing Them to Jesus Christ

There’s nothing more important for our children at Hope than to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and a personal walk with God. That’s why we have personal and family daily devotional times and prayer boards in each of our dorms. We also prioritize church attendance as well as church activities like youth camps and Vacation Bible School for the boys and girls.

Our goal is for every child at Hope to know they have a Heavenly Father who loves them and a Savior who died for them—so they can live a life of bold faith long after their time at Hope.

4. Providing Them with an Excellent Christian Education

Many of the children who come to Hope are struggling academically. So, one of the keys to Hope’s success is that every child receives a top-tier Christian education to ensure each child has the opportunity to thrive, even if they’ve fallen behind. And because the curriculum is biblically based, every child consistently learns about their Heavenly Father who loves them.

Our school program in Florida has a 30-year track record of success. It begins in our Nursery and continues through the 12th grade. We are proud to say that over 95% of the students who graduate from Hope Christian School continue to college.

Why A New Name?

The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home was first established in 1908 as the Florida Methodist Orphanage. Since that time, it has grown into a multi-faceted organization serving abused, abandoned, and neglected children from across the state of Florida. In addition to providing a higher level of therapeutic residential care in two locations, we also provide foster care and outpatient counseling in multiple counties. We realized that we had outgrown the Children’s Home name, and needed something that better represented the purpose we serve and the care we provide. That new name is Residing Hope expresses optimism and the opportunity of a better life for the children and youth we serve.

Why Residing Hope?

In selecting a new name, we wanted a name that reflected the organization we had become while staying true to our history. It should also reflect our steadfast mission as a faith-based provider: Empower children and families to experience the transforming love of Christ through evidence-based care and holistic services.

The word HOPE is commonly used to mean a wish or desire. But in the Bible, hope is the confident expectation of what God has promised and the strength of His faithfulness. Residing Hope expresses optimism and the opportunity of a better life for the children and youth we serve. That compassionate care drives everything we do across all our services and locations.

Motivated by the love of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, Ethnos360 exists to assist the ministry of the local church through the mobilizing, equipping and coordinating of believers to evangelize unreached people groups, translate the Scriptures and see indigenous churches established that glorify God. Ethnos360 continues to trust God, and God continues to be glorified. Today more than 3,000 missionaries serve throughout the world, and training programs in more than a dozen countries prepare missionaries for service among the thousands of tribes who have yet to hear.

The Navigators is a ministry that shares the gospel of Jesus and helps people grow in their relationship with Him through Life-to-Life discipleship, creating spiritual generations of believers. Since its founding in 1933, The Navigators has upheld the mission “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same

The Navigators is focused on developing disciples person-by-person-by-person and encouraging spiritual growth across life stages. A disciple is someone who believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, intentionally learns from Him, and strives to live more like Him. Discipleship means intentionally helping people learn from and live more like Christ by praying with them, spending time together in His Word, walking alongside them in everyday life, and equipping them to do the same with others. God is transforming lives through these spiritual generations.

The Navigators reaches and disciples people in need of the gospel where they work, live, worship, and play: on college campuses and military bases, in inner cities, workplaces, churches, and local communities, and in hard-to-reach places.

Our Mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly. In our worship, we desire to surrender to and be fully devoted to one God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We are passionate about what is important to God. Jesus calls those who follow Him to love God wholeheartedly and love their neighbors as themselves. Our desire is to demonstrate to the world the extravagant love of God in the person of Jesus Christ. We have been entrusted with a lifesaving and transforming message that we must share with others. Our witness is bold, compelling and fearless. Our mission advances when individuals become disciples of Jesus Christ and join God’s mission to make more disciples.

The mission of Cornerstone Family Ministries is to make a lasting and positive impact in the lives of economically disadvantaged children and their families in our community by nourishing young bodies, developing young minds, and fostering hope through Christ…One Child at a time. All disadvantaged children in our community will have access to nutritious food, quality safe early childhood care education and opportunities to connect to the sustaining love of Jesus Christ through a local church.

Guiding Values

• To offer God’s love first, so that hope through Jesus Christ may follow.
• To accept and respect people where they are.
• To connect people to opportunities and promote service to others with compassion always.
• To be committed to excellence—always learning, developing and growing.