Joy Meadows Foster Care
Community was born from
the passion of families who
were serving in foster care
and continually felt they
could do more, “if only…”

Joy Meadows Foster Care Community

Joy Meadows is a foster care community just outside of the Kansas City metro serving foster and adoptive children and families in Kansas and beyond.  

Joy Meadows's mission is to provide foster families with community support, housing, and resources so that children in foster care can find stability, healing, and joy. 

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Team

Anna Unruh
Director of Community Engagement/
Office Manager
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Amanda Needham
Director of Finance
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Harper Wolf
Animal Program Manager
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Taylor Sjorgren
Resource Manager
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Jenny Venning
Church Network Manager
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Jenni Clark
Clothing Closet Manager
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Brooklyn Lovin
Administrative Assistant and Events
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Sarah Oberndorfer
COO
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Justin Oberndorfer
CEO
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Sarah Nolan
Church Network Manager
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Teena Wilkie
Church Network Manager
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Board

Alan Banwart →
Secretary

John Emanuels→
Vice Chair

Rick Morefield →
Board Chair

  • Ephesians 3:20-21

    Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

  • Acts 20:35

    In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

  • Colossians 3:23-24

    Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

  • Romans 15:13

    May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • Romans 12:5

    So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

  • Galatians 6:2

    Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

    Matthew 26:35-36

    For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothes me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.

  • Psalm 139:13-14

    For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Joy Meadows Values

We believe:

  • The Bible is inerrant in all things necessary to salvation and is the final authority in faith and practice and contains all truth necessary to faith and Christian living.

  • One Triune God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  • The deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, perfect life, redeeming death, and bodily resurrection.

  • The creation of man in the divine image, man’s subsequent fall through sin, resulting in guilt; and the necessity, therefore, of redemption and restoration.

  • We believe that the atonement through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race; and that whosoever repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is justified and regenerated and saved from sin.

  • The personality of the Holy Spirit by Whose regenerative work sinful man is born again.

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit bears witness to the new birth, and by whose indwelling regenerate man is enabled to live a godly life.

  • We believe that our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judgment will take place.

  • The spiritual unity of all believers as comprising the Church, which has the duty to preach the Gospel to every creature.

Joy Meadows Statement of Faith