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"We want our campus to be more of a home setting and to have a family atmosphere where the kids can be safe and grow up. Allowing children in the two houses at Mobile campus to interact is vital to the family atmosphere we want to ensure." 
- Mobile Campus, Director

"A lot of what we work on at the Decatur campus is helping each child to feel good about himself or herself mentally, physically, and spiritually. We pray hard, play hard, and work hard."
- Bobby Joe Smith,
Retired Director

"The family focus and home-styled setting you find at all of the Children's Homes locations more closely reflects the environment from which the children have come than the more institutional, orphanage-type setting of the past."
- Ted Embry, Director in Northeastern Alabama

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While in the temporary or long-term care of Alabama Baptist Children's Homes & Family Ministries, many children and youth are unable or not permitted by the legal system to live with parents or other relatives.

Other children in our care are private placements: They are living at the Children's Homes at their parents' or other legal guardians' requests while the parents or other legal guardians receive medical help, re-establish household, or for other reasons. These parents or other legal guardians keep legal custody of the child or children while the Children's Homes provides a safe home for them, food and clothing, medical care, tutorial and other educational help, professional counseling as needed, and opportunities for spiritual growth. All of these services are at no cost to the family, and frequent contact with the child or children by telephone or personal visits is arranged when possible.

Campuses, Group Homes, Emergency Shelters,
Foster Care

The Children's Homes provides homes for children and youth in Alabama at campuses in Decatur and Mobile, and at group homes in Mobile, Dothan, Gardendale, Oxford and Alabaster. The Children's Homes also licenses and trains foster families, who provide temporary or long-term care in their homes.

In 2005 at Alabama Baptist Children's Homes:

  • Homes were provided for 145 children and youth in Alabama in Decatur, Gardendale, Oxford, Dothan, and Mobile.
  • Homes were provided for 102 children and youth in foster care.
  • Temporary homes and other services were provided for 35 mothers and dependent children in Alabaster and Mobile.

Find someone in your area to answer your questions.

The Children's Homes is not an orphanage.

In an orphanage, you have a matron and maybe 50 kids who dress alike and live in buildings resembling barracks. Today, Alabama Baptist Children's Homes provides more of a home-like setting with houseparents, and we try to customize ministries and services to meet specific needs of children and youth. Special effort is made to keep siblings in the same home or on the same campus. The group homes in Alabaster and Mobile provide specialized care for single mothers with dependent children.

For more information about foster care, click here.

"Father John Stewart (founder of Alabama Baptist Children's Homes) was indeed like a father to my dad, as well as his baby brother, while they lived at the Evergreen home from 1902 to 1911. Mr. Stewart gave them guidance and Christian witness by his living example. He played for 'his children,' but administered firm discipline when necessary. Under his leadership, my dad accepted Jesus Christ at the age of 12 and was baptized by Mr. Stewart in the old Evergreen church." - Linda B. Beasley
 

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