about Us
Little Blessings: Foster and Adoptive Family Support provides grants, no-interest loans, community networking, retreats, and donated clothing, toys and furniture to foster and adoptive families. We believe that God calls us as Christians to care for orphans and hurting children. There are boys and girls, children and teens, who through no fault of their own, are in need of families. And there are men and women, dads and moms, who are opening their homes and hearts to them. Not every family can take these children into their homes, but we can all participate in supporting families that choose to foster and adopt. We want them to feel loved, prayed for, and to know that they are not alone in this challenging and life-changing work.
We were founded in 2016 as a registered tax-exempt 501(c)3 to support adoptive and foster families around the United States. Visit our Guide Star profile.
Board of Directors
We are volunteer run. Our staff and board members are unpaid and every donation helps families and children. The Board of Directors guides and protects the purpose of the organization, ensuring we carry it out with excellence, integrity, and accountability.
C. JoAnna Schlecht
Director and Board Member
C. JoAnna Schlecht has worked as an Adoption Specialist for Bethany Christian Services in Connecticut, on staff at a PCA church as the Director of Community, and served on the board of Augustine Classical Academy in Denver. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Covenant Seminary with concentrations in education and counseling. She is a mama via adoption to three adorable kiddos. She loves to hike the Rocky Mountains, visit little towns and far-away cities, and fill their home with people and good food. Their family cares for two Yorkies, eight chickens, and occasional exchange students.
C.A. Schlecht
Board Member - Secretary
Dr. Schlecht is a attorney. He has prepared and prosecuted patents in a diverse range of technical fields including chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nanotechnology, petrochemistry and material science. He holds a PhD. from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. He is the dad to three beautiful children via adoption. He aspires to add at least two more children to his family, 20 more chickens, a few llamas, and a possibly a miniature Holstein.
Erin Layton
Board Member
Erin Layton lives in Queens, NY where she works full-time as a project coordinator at a busy non-profit in Lower Manhattan as well as pursuing her career as a playwright/performer and self-producing artist. She is also a member of Ascension Church in Forest Hills. Erin has a heart for stories that expose injustices around the globe and worked on developing her second full length play about slavery in 19th century Missouri as a resident playwright in Scotland in the spring of 2016. Erin is thrilled to serve on the board of Little Blessings.
Grace Greene
Board Member
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Moya Hall
Founding Board Member
Moya Hall no longer serves on the board. Moya and her husband Matt live in Douglas County, CO with their three biological children and their newest addition, a toddler born in Ethiopia. They attend Cherry Creek Presbyterian and are involved with orphan care ministry. Matt is a physician and Moya is a full-time mom with a nursing degree. Her family enjoys family bike rides, working around their small plot of land, traveling to nearby and faraway destinations, and spending time with their extended family and friends.