You Can Serve with Big Oak Ranch in One of Three Meaningful Ways
Our Resource Families are paired with a child for one weekend each month and become an "extended family" for our children as they provide time off for rest and restoration for our Houseparents.
Resource Family
Become a
Are you ready to show the love of Jesus to hurting children? We’re here to help you discover the most impactful ways to do so.
For 50 years, our mission has been and will always be to relieve the suffering of children. We are looking for couples and families who want to get involved and make a difference in the lives of children who need a chance. If you are interested in learning more about the different pathways, please click one of the links below, and we will send information consistent with the pathway you have chosen.
Turn Hurt to Healing
Reach Out to Us
Give us a call or fill out the form above, and let us know you want to make a difference in a child’s life.
STEP 1
Big Oak Boys’ Ranch was founded in 1974 as a Christian home for boys needing a chance and later expanded to include the Girls’ Ranch in 1988. Today, it stands as a safe, loving environment for children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned, where they have the opportunity to fulfill God’s plan for their lives. Over the past 50 years, the Ranch has provided care for 2000+ children, giving them stability and guiding them to the true source of Hope.
Help Us Help More
To provide a family to more children who desperately need it , Big Oak needs dedicated couples ready to answer the call and serve in these roles that provide critical, long-term support and guidance to children in need. By answering the call to one of these pathways, you help create a stable and nurturing home where children can heal, grow, and thrive in their faith.
There are approximately 6,000 children in Alabama’s foster care system. Join Big Oak today, and change lives for generations by providing a safe home for healing.
Become a Difference Maker
You’re Just 3 Steps Away from Fulfilling Your Calling to Help Hurting Children
Discover Where You’re Called to Serve
Speak with a member of our team and discover where your skills can best be used through a series of conversations.
STEP 2
Make a Generational Impact
Become a critical part of the Big Oak Ranch community, providing life-changing care and support for children in need.
STEP 3
How Will You Make a Difference in a Child’s Life?
A Christian Home for Children Needing a Chance
Turn Hurt to Healing
Our community is located across parts of Jefferson, Saint Clair, and Etowah counties.
Big Oak - North Birmingham
Our Branch Ministries Along I-59 in Alabama
“Each home on the Ranch represents not just a family that lives in each home, but OUR family that lives in each home. And together, we live this life of service, this life of helping children navigate their own trials. Yes, our faith is challenged and our patience tested. But within this testing, we experience the Love of the Father in ways we never imagined.”
—Zach and BJ,
Houseparents at Big Oak Ranch
“The stability, consistency, and accountability from the staff at the Ranch gave me a solid foundation and an example of how good life could be. I credit my success throughout adulthood to my experience at Big Oak. I will forever be grateful that I was given a chance and look forward to seeing how, I too, can serve God and His children through Big Oak Ranch.”
—Michelle Fogle,
Former Resident
“Resource Parenting has made me a much better wife and mother, and a better teacher.”
—Ann Bettis,
Resource Parent and Middle School Teacher
Hear from Those Who Have Answered the Call
“Resource weekends provide a place where my girls can just go to the ballpark, go to the movies, or out to eat. It’s surrounding our kids so that they have a village.”
—Suzanne Miller,
Housemom at Big Oak Girls’ Ranch
Houseparents serve full-time, providing a loving, Christian home on-Ranch where our children can learn, grow and heal from past trauma in a nurturing environment, and their lives can be transformed.
Houseparents
Become
Licensed and trained by Big Oak, foster parents provide a Christian family and a life of love and compassion for our children while living in one of our homes within a Big Oak Community.
Foster Parents
Become
Are you ready to show the love of Jesus to hurting children? We’re here to help you discover the most impactful ways to do so.
For 50 years, our mission has been and will always be to relieve the suffering of children. We are looking for couples and families who want to get involved and make a difference in the lives of children who need a chance. If you are interested in learning more about the different pathways, please click one of the links below, and we will send information consistent with the pathway you have chosen.
Turn Hurt to Healing
Big Oak Boys’ Ranch was founded in 1974 as a Christian home for boys needing a chance and later expanded to include the Girls’ Ranch in 1988. Today, it stands as a safe, loving environment for children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned, where they have the opportunity to fulfill God’s plan for their lives. Over the past 50 years, the Ranch has provided care for 2000+ children, giving them stability and guiding them to the true source of Hope.
Help Us Help More
To provide a family to more children who desperately need it , Big Oak needs dedicated couples ready to answer the call and serve in these roles that provide critical, long-term support and guidance to children in need. By answering the call to one of these pathways, you help create a stable and nurturing home where children can heal, grow, and thrive in their faith.
A Christian Home for Children Needing a Chance
Reach Out to Us
Give us a call or fill out the form above, and let us know you want to make a difference in a child’s life.
STEP 1
You’re Just 3 Steps Away from Fulfilling Your Calling to Help Hurting Children
Discover Where You’re Called to Serve
Speak with a member of our team and discover where your skills can best be used through a series of conversations.
STEP 2
Make a Generational Impact
Become a critical part of the Big Oak Ranch community, providing life-changing care and support for children in need.
STEP 3
“Each home on the Ranch represents not just a family that lives in each home, but OUR family that lives in each home. And together, we live this life of service, this life of helping children navigate their own trials. Yes, our faith is challenged and our patience tested. But within this testing, we experience the Love of the Father in ways we never imagined.”
—Zach and BJ,
Houseparents at Big Oak Ranch
“The stability, consistency, and accountability from the staff at the Ranch gave me a solid foundation and an example of how good life could be. I credit my success throughout adulthood to my experience at Big Oak. I will forever be grateful that I was given a chance and look forward to seeing how, I too, can serve God and His children through Big Oak Ranch.”
—Michelle Fogle,
Former Resident
“Resource Parenting has made me a much better wife and mother, and a better teacher.”
—Ann Bettis,
Resource Parent and Middle School Teacher
Hear from Those Who Have Answered the Call
“Resource weekends provide a place where my girls can just go to the ballpark, go to the movies, or out to eat. It’s surrounding our kids so that they have a village.”
—Suzanne Miller,
Housemom at Big Oak Girls’ Ranch
There are approximately 6,000 children in Alabama’s foster care system. Join Big Oak today, and change lives for generations by providing a safe home for healing.
Become a Difference Maker
Our community is located across parts of Jefferson, Saint Clair, and Etowah counties.
Big Oak - North Birmingham
