to offer a safe home and to be a family to the abused, neglected, broken and lost through an unbreakable covenant of love like Christ's for becoming young adult women. ​

the vision 

The Agape Project is a Christian safe home for ladies above the age of fifteen years old. Our mission is to help young women understand what love is by encouraging them to love themselves, showing them they are loved by a family, and helping them understand that God loves them.

Unfortunately, due to the legalities and policies within the foster care system, foster youth often cannot experience normalcy. They cannot get their driver’s license or regularly spend time with their friends outside of the home. At The Agape Project, we will allow the ladies to earn these privileges by establishing trust and exemplifying and maturing virtues. Losing and earning privileges will vary from woman to woman depending on her program.

​We want to allow young women to discover their gifts through various aspects such as education, gardening, art, athletics, and much more. It is through these different activities they are involved in they discover their gifts and passions. We want to cultivate these on a one-on-one basis. Each girl will have an individualized program fitting to the past trauma they have experienced and the future they wish to have. The ladies will have support staff helping them through their program. The support staff will include counselors, mentors, and the executive director of the program. Whether it is setting her up by granting her the skills and resources to go to college, enter the workforce, or join the military, we want to make sure each woman is equipped and prepared to have a successful future by seeking and fulfilling God’s will for her life.

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the covenant 

Many children in foster care above the age of fifteen are considered “unadoptable,” because of the benefits they can receive following emancipation. Many becoming young adults in foster care will emancipate out of the foster care system without a family. We want to house young women fifteen and up, so we can prove to them that we want to be their family before they believe it is too late, because they are already on their own. There is a hole in our foster care system and without adequate skills, support, and love many youths are falling in the abyss. This crack is causing our society to lose the potential of future doctors, lawyers, advocates, and world changers. We hope to fill this crack by adopting these young women into our families and granting them a forever family to come back to you, while also offering them therapeutic services to heal from trauma and further independent-living and coping skills so they will have a fruitful life and embrace the purposeful future God has for them.

the need 

  • More than 23,000 children will age out of the US foster care system every year.
  • After reaching the age of 18, 20% of the children who were in foster care will become instantly homeless.
  • Only 1 out of every 2 foster kids who age out of the system will have some form of gainful employment by the age of 24.
  • There is less than a 3% chance for children who have aged out of foster care to earn a college degree at any point in their life.
  • 7 out of 10 girls who age out of the foster care system will become pregnant before the age of 21.
  • 25% percentage of children who age out of the foster care system and still suffer from the direct effects of PTSD.​

the staff:

tori wichman 
I am currently earning my Bachelor of science degree, while running track at Hillsdale College. I am majoring in Christian studies and minoring in psychology. After I graduate, I hope to work with children and families forever.
After living in twelve different foster homes and experiencing so many families, I became so passionate about improving families and having my own someday. Family is the foundation of everything and children are the future. People complain about our nation falling apart, but do not recognize it is the family structure that is crumbling. There is healing and hope for families and children when a genuine covenant-kind-of-love is established through foster care and adoption. I am here to help rebuild what is broken and help restore families and children. So we may all regain what we need - a forever family.
*Statistics from the National Foster Youth Institute
*Photos seen on this page are special thanks to Captured by Hannah Photography and Reagan Photography ​