Providing families with community
support, housing, and resources
so children impacted by foster care
can find stability, healing, and joy.
The Joy Meadows Foster Care Community Model
Joy Meadows is an access point for all involved in the foster care community—private agencies, therapists, volunteers, and foster families—to maximize a child's time in care for healing, not simply a holding pattern.
2026-2027 Capital Campaign
Within five years, Joy Meadows grew from 320 to 7,082 on-site interactions—and we've reached the limits of one campus.
Now we're expanding to Kansas City, Kansas to serve the full circle of families impacted by foster care: foster parents, biological parents, and children together.
Animal Sessions at Joy Meadows Foster Care Community
Animal Sessions at Joy Meadows Foster Care Community
Animal Day Camp invites animal-loving kids to spend hands-on time with barn animals, build new skills and friendships, and explore biblical truths through interactive lessons. Open to foster and adoptive youth, and biological children in fostering families.
Second Saturday is a monthly gathering in Kansas City for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. This September event features an Apple Festival with nature trails, hands-on activities, and outdoor fun, along with dinner for the whole family and predictable stations children can look forward to.
Monthly Prayer gathering at the Linwood Campus. We have a prayer team that is ready to pray for any needs or requests that you may have!
Animal Day Camp invites animal-loving kids to spend hands-on time with barn animals, build new skills and friendships, and explore biblical truths through interactive lessons. Open to foster and adoptive youth, and biological children in fostering families.
Circles of Joy Annual Gala at the Farm
Second Saturday is a monthly gathering in Kansas City for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. This October event features pumpkin activities, outdoor play, and hands-on fall fun, along with a shared meal and predictable stations children can enjoy and caregivers can count on.
Monthly Prayer gathering at the Linwood Campus. We have a prayer team that is ready to pray for any needs or requests that you may have!
Second Saturday is a monthly gathering in Kansas City for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. This November event features fall-themed activities, outdoor play, and shared fun in a predictable, supportive environment where caregivers and children can connect and feel encouraged.
Monthly Prayer gathering at the Linwood Campus. We have a prayer team that is ready to pray for any needs or requests that you may have!
Upcoming Events
Articles & Guides
Foster parent burnout is real — and respite care is one of the most important supports no one talks about. Learn what respite care is, how it helps both families and children, and how you can play a role in keeping kids in stable, loving homes.
Feeling stuck in your foster care case? You're not alone. Foster care cases are complex by nature — shaped by different people, roles, and deeply personal circumstances. Here are 5 things foster parents and relative caregivers can do when frustration sets in.
Many families considering foster care ask, “How will this affect my children?” In this honest reflection, one foster mom shares how God called her family together and how fostering shaped her children through empathy, compassion, faith, and love.
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