Joy Meadows was born from the passion of families who were serving in foster care and continually felt they could do more, “if only…..” . If only they had more space to take extra children. If only they had more time to get them the help they needed. If only there was a way to keep siblings together. If only they had the resources to find all the services that were out there for these children. If
only they weren’t alone and isolated as they tried to love the abused and neglected. If only there was a way to share joy and community as they fought through the system to pull children out of the cycle of abuse and neglect. If only there was a better way…and God put an idea and dream in their heart of making a better way. Joy Meadows was formed as a 501(c)(3) in 2017. is a non-profit with the mission to “provide families with community support, housing, and resources so that children impacted by foster care can find stability, healing, and joy.”
It is a centralized place for resources to support foster/adoptive families from our many Resource Programs to the Clothing Closet to nature trails to therapy, along with the barn, orchard, garden and community center so that families throughout Kansas and Missouri can be well-supported. Through the Housing Program it will soon be a neighborhood of homes built to house large sibling groups entering into foster care, or to make sure maximum number of children in care have single-family homes to go to. The Joy Meadows Church Network trains and partners with local churches to create foster care ministries and create Care Communities to provide wrap-around support for local foster families. The goal of everything we do at Joy Meadows is to provide joy to the children during their journey, and to the foster and adoptive families who serve them.
