Larry & Cathy McDaniel begin Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries Christian Children’s Home in their house.
Dedication of our second home, The Zimmer Home
Mark and Laurene Zimmer’s vision for Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries and their heart for God’s children blesses us with our property as well as a 2nd home for children in need. Mark passed away in January of 2018. The impact of Mark and Laurene’s incredible heart for children and families through their strong support of the mission of Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries will be felt for generations to come.
The Hubbell Home, our 3rd home, is completed.
Built in honor and with the generous support of Ira and Gail Hubbell and their family, this home is a wonderful addition to our ministry and service to families. Ira and Gail shared a commitment to give children a place to grow, learn, to love, to play . . . A Safe Place to Be a Child. Gail passed away in November of 2013, and Ira in January of 2018. Their legacy of service will forever live on in the Hubbell Home.
Foutz Field, a combination baseball & soccer field, is completed.
Our 5th home, The Atherton Home, is completed.
Named in honor of Bill and Tammy Atherton, who came on staff as home parents in 1995. They served in Larry’s former family residence and listened to dreams about a new property containing homes designed and built specifically for a children’s home ministry. Meanwhile, they served 24/7, seven days a week…and learned in the school of “hard knocks” how to be the best possible Home Parents they could be, serving longer than any Home Parents in our history.
After 25 years of ministry, 407 children have called Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries home.
Larry says, “We survived the mistakes, fought the battles, and learned some things along the way. And 25 years later we’ve served hundreds of kids and helped improve countless families. I’m very thankful to have had this opportunity. It’s changed us all for the better, and made this world a little bit better place to be.”
Our 6th home, The Petershiem Home, is completed.
The Petersheim Home was completed through the generosity and vision of Ed Petersheim. With additional generous support from Veterans United Foundation and our community, this home was built to be another safe place to be a child. Ed and Brenda and Veterans United Foundation share a compassion for children and a commitment to enhance lives. May this home be a legacy of devotion and humility, impacting children for generations to come.
Our Foster Care Services program is launched.
After caring for children for many years at our Children’s Home in Harrisburg, MO., we are now licensing and supporting individual foster families in Columbia and the surrounding communities. Foster Care Services uses Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s decades of proven success to change the landscape of foster care in mid-Missouri.
Ubl Home is Completed and Serving Children
Despite a world-wide pandemic, the Ubl Home was opened through the generosity of Jerry & Maggie Ubl. Their dream to create a legacy that continues serving children long after they are gone was completed in August 2020. “We’ve been so fortunate and blessed over the years,” Jerry Ubl said. “We couldn’t think of any better place to contribute than Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries and to let a child be a child. These kids deserve better.”
We Expand Services into the Jefferson City Area
Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries is thrilled to announce the expansion of the ministry into the Jefferson City area. Thanks to the generous support of many donors, Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries has purchased a home in southeast Jefferson City. This home will serve as a community foster home, with additional supports from Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries. The home will be able to care for up to six foster children at once, providing them with a loving, safe home.
Transition to Foster Care Community
In 2021, 30 years after its inception, Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries transitioned the homes on our 300 acre Harrisburg campus to become a foster care community. Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries now consists of three areas of ministry: foster care licensing and support services, the foster care community, and an equine program for veterans and children in foster care.
Expansion Opens a Columbia Office
With the coming of 2021, a long-standing Columbia ministry, Love Columbia opened the Love Columbia Center at 1209 E Walnut (former Boone County Family Resources building.) The large office building on the 2.6-acre property not only gives Love Columbia a spacious location for their ministry, but also enough space that they can share half of their building with Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries! This new office gives us plenty of space for training foster parents, providing therapy and resources for foster families in our community, and running our development team.
Expansion Opens a Moberly Office
With the rapid growth of Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s Foster Care Services, Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries Moberly opened in 2021. We had our official ribbon cutting in November 2022. This expansion allows Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries to serve our foster parents in Randolph and surrounding counties.
Expansion into Northeast Missouri
Since the inception of Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s Foster Care Services program in 2020, Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries has expanded into the Moberly and Jefferson City areas. Now, with the hiring of a Hannibal Area Coordinator in October of 2021, we are excited to announce that our foster care licensing and support services have moved into the NE Missouri region, also! “By bringing Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s Foster Care Services to the Hannibal area, I hope to love, serve and help promote positive change in the community where I grew up. I want to facilitate more well-equipped foster homes, to serve and love more kids.” ~~Brittany McCaskey, Hannibal Area Coordinator
Family Connections Home
Becoming a foster family is about more than fostering a child. It is also about fostering their connection to the biological family God gave them. The addition of our Family Connections Home, made possible through the generosity of the Veterans United Foundation and program funding by the Boone County Children’s Services Fund, allows us to create a home-like atmosphere where this connection can flourish with supervised visits.
100 Licensed Foster Families
We are excited to announce that 100 foster families have now been licensed through Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s Foster Care Services, which began in 2020. The work does not end with these 100 families. There are over 14,000 children in foster care in Missouri. We must keep going until there are more than enough families for children.
Joined CAFO
Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries joined Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO.) CAFO unites a movement of organizations, churches, and individuals worldwide, helping to inspire and equip Christians to effectively live out the Bible’s call to care for orphans and vulnerable children.