Foster children in Warren County and beyond will now have a local place to live, grow, and stay together with family if necessary, as local foster parents Porchia and Stanley Stigleman are in the process of putting together a new home called Agape Farm. Stanley Stigleman tells KNIA News one of the big focuses of Agape Farm will be keeping siblings together, one of the shortfalls of the current foster care system.

“You get three or four kids taken away from a home due to circumstances, and then they get separated. Well it’s already hard enough being separated from their parents, well now they are separated from their siblings too. It’s terrible. We all need family, we all need each other, and I think that’s a big part of us. When we get all of it together and show the kids that they can be who they are, who God made them to be, and then show them this is how the security of having a place to come home to, having a room, not worrying about food, not worrying about parents being mad, just focusing on being a kid. And learn and thrive that way, is our goal.”

Agape Farm is a non-profit organization existing to provide a Christ-centered home to children ages 0-18 impacted by abuse, neglect and abandonment.

For more information, tune in to this In-Depth with Dr. Bob Leonard.

https://www.kniakrls.com/2020/04/14/in-depth-foster-kids-and-agape-farm/