After spending a season as foster parents and adopting two of our children from foster care in Harnett County, my husband and I saw firsthand the overwhelming need for safe, loving homes for abused, neglected, and vulnerable children, especially in eastern North Carolina. During that time, God planted in our hearts a vision: a community of family-style homes dedicated to serving these children.

Years later, an impromptu dinner with friends revealed that Lord had also planted the seed in their hearts for the same kind of work!. That evening, we began to dream together, and the vision for Cypress View Children’s Home started to take shape.

Since then, God has brought together a beautifully and uniquely gifted team to help lead and serve in this work (you can read more about them here). Cypress View Children’s Home is now moving forward in partnership with Big Oak Ranch. We’ve developed a site plan and individual house plans for our 19-acre property in Dunn, and we are actively fundraising to begin construction on our first two homes.

I am continually humbled to be part of the story God is writing through Cypress View Children’s Home. I remain committed to working faithfully and with excellence for the glory of God and for the good of the children we will serve. They are worth it.

Laura White, Executive Director