This is a place where compassion turns into action, and where everyday people step in to make an extraordinary difference for vulnerable children and families.

Keep scrolling to discover stories, updates, and upcoming events—there’s always something new happening on the Ranch. Don’t miss our special Ranch Song by Pastor Randy, written straight from the heart of our mission.

As you explore, you’ll find meaningful ways to get involved:

• CarePortal—meet real needs in real time

• Volunteer Opportunities—serve children and families in practical ways

• CASA—be a consistent voice for a child in foster care

• And many more ways to bring hope where it’s needed most

Every act of kindness matters. Every helping hand changes a story.

Together, we can make a lasting impact—one child, one family, one need at a time.

Welcome to the Ranch… where love shows up and lives are changed.

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Dree Hogue of the 111 Project joined us as a guest speaker for a trauma training session. Watch and listen as she skillfully leads you through the challenges of serving kids from hard places.

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The need to help children and families cannot be ignored. The total estimated number of orphans worldwide is 140 Million! Children in foster care in the U.S. is 343,077. While statistics continually change, there are currently 5,885 children in the Oklahoma Foster Care System, 103 are in Creek County. (September 2025) (https://www.111project.org/oklahomastats/)

Child abuse, neglect, and abandonment are problems not only in our nation but in our state and county. The Ranch at Fireside is part of the solution to this problem. Partnering with parents, existing agencies, communities, and ministries - children and teens will be freed from the generational cycle of abuse and neglect. Statistics will be transformed into beautifully healed healthy lives. Working together, we can end the foster care crisis.

FYI:

• Between 65% and 85 % of children in foster care have a sibling in care. Of those children, 53% to 80% are separated from one or more of their siblings because there are not enough families willing and able to foster multiple children at the same time.
• More than a third of children in foster care experience three or more placements each year.
• 30-50% of foster families decide to quite fostering each year due to emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual exhaustion.
• Between 20-40% of child welfare professionals leave the field each year due to high stress, emotional exhaustion, and burnout.
• 1,337 Oklahoma children in care had to be placed outside their county due to a lack of foster homes within their county. (Sept. 2025)
• An estimated 60% of all child sex trafficking victims have histories in the child welfare system. (https://www.ncjfcj.org/webcasts/the-disturbing-connection-between-foster-care-and-domestic-child-sex-trafficking/)
• Data shows that between 25-33% of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness had a history of foster care.(https://www.chapinhall.org/wp-content/uploads/Chapin-Hall_VoYC_Child-Welfare-One-Pager_2019-FINAL.pdf)

How can we change these stats? Keep scrolling to learn more...

What is The Ranch at Fireside?

The Ranch is a foster care community dedicated to changing the lives of foster children and families. It is a place for foster families to call HOME. It's a community where foster parents will have the support and resources needed to provide safe, nurturing and loving care to foster children in state custody. Here, foster children will encounter hope, have a sense of belonging, and experience unconditional love. It is a community where the environment is conducive to reversing the effects of child trauma and bring healing and restoration. Working together, our nurturing community will inspire and equip each child to break the cycle of abuse and neglect, achieve their highest potential, and become beneficial citizens.

One of our main objectives is to keep sibling groups together; therefore, The Ranch provides affordable housing to those committed to fostering at least four children. These families will receive wrap-around support to help with individualized needs, including resources and services to ensure success for every family and child that comes to live on The Ranch.

Our vision is huge and currently under development. This long-awaited dream is coming to fruition with our first home serving children in need. Our second home, the Rambler House, currently being renovated will be a welcoming space where social workers can bring children awaiting placement or supervise parental visits. It will also serve as the ranch office and provide respite accommodations.

Our mission is to ensure that every foster child in The Ranch community experiences the hope, healing, and unconditional love of Jesus!

Progress

• Third Ranch adoption (Farley's - May 7, 2025)
• New foster family moved in. (December 2024)
• The renovation of The Rambler House is underway. (Spring 2024)
• Two of the Ranch kiddos were adopted. (Eddington - Spring 2024)
• As of October 2023, The Ranch has served 13 children. Fostering 8 and providing respite care for 5.
• The old pond dock has been completely removed.
• A family donated a playground set for The Ranch home. (Aug. 2022)
• Our first foster family has moved in! (Aug. 14, 2022)
• County planning meetings are taking place and the land was surveyed to determine future home plots.
• Plans to build more homes are in the works.
• Open House for the first home gave people a greater understanding of The Ranch and its purpose. (Feb. 14, 2022)
• The process of locating a foster family has begun.
• The remodel on the first home is complete! (Feb. 2022)

Development Plans

Additional homes built as finances become available; extended playground and park area; a pavilion; a garden; new pond dock; campsites; a learning center; and expanded support services & programs that will help children grow academically, socially, spiritually, and emotionally.

An equestrian program, art therapy, and grandparent "cottages" are included in future programs and land development.

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At the moment, our homes are filled on The Ranch. However, you can complete the application below to join our waitlist.

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Become a Foster Family Living at The Ranch.

We would be honored to have you consider being foster parents living on The Ranch at Fireside.

• Are you currently a certified traditional foster care family in the state of Oklahoma?
• Are you willing to bring at least 4 foster children out of the DHS foster system, and into your home?
• The Ranch at Fireside is NOT a foster care agency. The Ranch homes are Traditional and Kinship Foster Care homes not Therapeutic nor Specialized.

We will be happy to assist you in the application process. To get started, you fill out and send in the Residence Application Form. If you have any questions please get in touch with our office at 918.321.3833 or https://firesidekiefer.church/contact.

We know this is a big decision. But it is one worth considering...

Other Ways You Can Help

You may not be ready to live on The Ranch and foster four or more children; but there is always a need for a loving home to foster one or two. Or, you can get certified to help with emergency or respite care. There are multiple ways you can be involved to transform statistics into beautifully healed healthy lives.

Besides giving financially you can:

• Schedule a work day and give of your time.
• Purchase items needed for construction.
• Give In-kind gifts such as your companies goods or services.
• Spread the word!
• Pray!

Together let's build The Ranch and help stop the cycle of child abuse and neglect.

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