Protect Children & Families

We must step up for those who are neglected, forgotten and in need.

Around the world, children suffer from malnutrition and a lack of educational opportunities. At Send Relief, we can connect you and your church with opportunities to be part of the solution.

In North America, stories of exploitation continue to surface, and the need for foster and adoptive families has never been greater. Often, drug and alcohol use, neglect, abuse, disease and poverty impact the lives of children.

Coaching

International Orphan Care Coaching

Send Relief is ready to help your church learn best practices in caring for orphans across the globe.

Family Advocacy Ministry Coaching

Learn how to support at-risk children and families in your community by connecting with a FAM ministry coach.

Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused

Discover and learn leadership skills to develop to prevent and respond to abuse in the church from renowned experts or read the free training curriculum.

How can we serve you?

Our team has decades of experience and is ready to help you start or grow a ministry. We would love to connect with you today.

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Jay Watkins

Jay Watkins serves as Send Relief’s Valdosta Ministry Center Director and is also involved in spearheading adoption and fostering efforts at Redland Baptist Church. His early ministry work starting equestrian therapy programs and ESL schools prepared his heart for the calling of a lifetime: fostering two and adopting four children and with his loving wife, Sandra. In founding Camp Rock—a camp serving at-risk children and operating as a year-round placement agency—Watkins continues to live out his values and vocation in protecting vulnerable families across the state of Georgia.

Projects

Adoption and Foster Care

Backpacks

Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM)

International Orphan Care

Lifeline Children’s Services Education

Puerto Rico Ministry Center

Quebradillas Ministry Center

Survivor Care Fund

Valdosta Ministry Center

Giving Kids A Fighting Chance

In one Asian country, Send Relief partners have been repeatedly beaten and left for dead in alleyways and side streets. Their families have been…

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Equipped to Love

In partnership with Lifeline Children’s Services, Send Relief is offering free curriculum and companion videos to help train your church and ministry leaders how to best care for adoptive and foster families in your community. From language do’s and don’ts to trauma-informed parenting styles, this resource is designed to help you come alongside the families...

Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM) Overview

FAMs help provide what vulnerable children need most: strong families. FAMs look different from church to church. The direction of your FAM depends on the heart of your church congregation and the needs of at-risk kids in your local community.

Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM) Advocate Overview

Churches are often full of people who want to make a positive impact in the lives of vulnerable children, but don’t know how. They simply need a plan and guidance.

Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM) Pastor Overview

Protect Children and Families Prayer Guide

All over the world, children living in crisis face exploitation, abuse and neglect on a regular basis. They are discriminated against, targeted and often ridiculed. Whether it be widows on the brink of starvation or children denied access to basic human rights, you have the power to interrupt generational cycles and empower them to not...

Three Ways to Alleviate Global Poverty

Nearly eight million people live on less than $2 a day. The day-to-day struggle just to survive is not a battle that many of us have been forced to fight. Read this guide to learn three ways to respond to poverty around the world. Then, see how Send Relief and our partners are responding through...

Kids Connecting with Kids Prayer Calendar

Use the stories and scripture in this guide as a prompt to help your children pray for clean water, children around the world, education, and more!

Summer Camp and After-School Ministries

This guide gives you a comprehensive, step-by-step approach on how to create and launch after-school and summer camp ministries that will not only keep kids busy outside of the classroom, but it can open doors for your church to share the gospel with them.

Weekend Food Backpack Ministry

Many children are dependent upon breakfast and lunch programs at school, but on weekends or holidays go hungry. Learn how your church can make a lasting impact by providing backpacks filled with food.

School Supplies Backpack Ministry

Learn how your church can provide backpacks filled with school supplies for disadvantaged children. Esta guía está disponible en español.

Duffel Bags for Foster Care

Learn how you can create Restoring Dignity Duffel Bags that will give children some new items of their own to help them settle into foster homes.

Backpack Ministry Guide

Respond to specific needs in your community as you share the hope of the gospel. This PDF combines our five backpack ministry guides and Discovering Needs in Your Community guide.