Mosaic of Manhattan exists to holistically support families in all stages of adoption and foster care through community and education. Our small group gatherings are an ideal environment for families and singles to connect deeply during their unique adoption and foster care journeys. Visit our calendar of events to find social, educational and cultural activities going on in the Manhattan area.
The name Mosaic of Manhattan reflects the beautiful diversity of the Manhattan, KS, area’s adoptive and foster families. Our hope is that through this ministry, we’ll see broken pieces lovingly transformed into an amazingly designed masterpiece.
God’s character and plan are unmistakable: He purposes to see justice extended to the helpless. In his book Fields of the Fatherless, Tom Davis describes the Jewish model for caring for widows, strangers, and orphans: a portion of the grain was to be left in the field so that people without food could freely gather it. Davis goes on to explain that as the body of Christ in the twenty-first century, our hands and our homes are the ones God is opening to the hurting, such as orphans and widows and strangers. Our fields can be our finances, our time, our families. Adoption and foster care are just two examples of how families can give themselves to God’s vision of compassion. They are models of how God can take a picture of despair and hopelessness and knit it together into something beautiful.
But as fulfilling as adoption and foster care are, it’s impossible to approach the joy and blessing of them without also accepting and embracing the grief and loss. And though we hope for healing in birth families when possible, the reality of foster care and adoption still exist, and the paths to them and through them are challenging. The stories of adoptive and foster families vary: some families need healing from past infertility; some need help nurturing their children through chronic illness or problems stemming from institutionalization or abuse; some are trying to create an atmosphere of confidence and sensitivity for their multiracial family; and some are in the middle of foster care, with children who may or may not stay in their home. Whatever the case, the transitions of parents and children deserve special attention. Mosaic exists to surround adoptive and foster families with a community of intuitive love and care when they need it most.
