Church Gifts Campus to ABCFM

Arkansas Baptist Children & Family Ministries is excited to announce the launch of a new headquarters at 9701 W. Markham Street.

On February 1, Arkansas Baptist Children & Family Ministries received one of our largest gifts in its history. Markham Street Baptist Church transferred ownership of its campus to ABCFM. This unique partnership provides the church with the ability to continue to gather as a church body and minister to the community it has served while utilizing its facilities in a greater capacity.

The Markham Street campus will serve as the new ABCFM headquarters, providing a statewide ministry hub for each of the ministries that encompass our organization and allow us to expand into new areas of ministries. In addition to the new administrative location, the Family Ministry Center will provide Arkansas families with more resources for counseling, advocacy, foster care, and adoption.

The center will provide a new Living Well Counseling location for the Little Rock area. Connected Foster Care & Adoptions will have a resource center for foster families, visitation space for biological families, along with training and office space for staff. Desired Haven will have training and meeting space for advocates and staff. We are excited about the new opportunities this space will allow us to provide children and families. We are grateful for the generosity of Markham Street Baptist Church.

We anticipate opening the foster care resource center and counseling center this summer with more ministries added as space is completed. With over 50,000 square feet of renovations, we need our Arkansas Baptist family to help us with this incredible opportunity to greater serve the most vulnerable in our state. We need volunteer church groups and individuals to help us prepare this space for ministry. Everything from cleaning and organizing to painting and flooring is needed. Contact Tim Noel at tim.noel@arkansasfamilies.org to find out how you or your church can volunteer.