Vision
Hope4One envisions a future where foster and adoptive families receive comprehensive support while forging strategic partnerships that ignite a positive influence and transformation across communities.
Mission
Our purpose is to journey alongside families, granting them hope and ensuring they are always seen, embraced, and part of a supportive network.
Who we are
Hope4One ministries was founded by a group of adoptive/ foster parents, local to Cleveland, TN. The heart of Hope4One is to be the body of Christ to vulnerable children and adoptive and foster families in our local community. Through our team members, board, volunteers, and local churches, we will work to educate, fundraise, and support families who are called to adopt or foster. Ultimately, we want vulnerable children and the families caring for them to know and understand the gospel.
what we do
Hope4One is an adoption and foster care ministry that provides physical resources and community support for foster and adoptive families, so that no child is without a family and no family is without community.
We serve families through our foster closet, community events, scholarships, training and retreats. We believe in our strong partnerships with other local ministries who serve kids in foster care. We know that, by linking arms, we can form a network of support that will allow children to heal inside a supported foster home.
Our Mission
SERVE
We serve families through our closet, wrap around ministry, adoption grants, community events, and support services.
Love
One of our biggest goals is to create community. We host several small events throughout the year to bring families together so that they feel the support of those who are walking similar journeys.
Educate
We host trainings throughout the year to educate parents and their support systems to better care for children with trauma.
Equip
Through trainings, support, encouragement, and events we hope to better equip families, churches, schools, and the community to carry out the call in the word to care for the fatherless.
Meet the Team
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Angela Sluss
Angela, a founding board member and current Board Chairman of Hope4One, started as their Director of Operations in June 2024. With 20 years in operations and technology, she is passionate about supporting foster and adopted youth. She and her husband, Jason, have fostered seven children over seven years, including one they adopted. They have four children who are supportive siblings to every child that enters their home. Angela is active in her community, a lifelong member of North Cleveland Church of God, and teaches for City Fields, a foster community partner.
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Katie Belz
Katie, and her husband Kevin, reside in Cleveland, Tennessee, with their three children, Alex, Elodie, and Henry. Katie has a 12 year background in operations and finance and serves as our Program Director and Board Treasurer. When she is not serving at Hope4one, Katie homeschools her three kiddos and enjoys cooking and exploring new places with her family.
