With heartfelt support, the Savannah Bananas step up to the plate for foster care. The popular baseball team has created a nonprofit organization, Bananas Foster, that recognizes and celebrates “the foster care community, while educating and inspiring others to get involved.” Watch the short clip to hear how and why the team owners are so passionate about foster care.

Children are gifts from the good Lord above and should be treated as such. Each child needs and deserves a place where they feel wanted, cared for, safe and loved. Sadly, not every child has an environment like that, which is why foster care and adoption are such big, pressing needs.

A clip posted on YouTube tells the touching and surprising story behind the Savannah Bananas baseball team’s push and support for foster care and adoption. The team is essentially the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. They travel around the country amazing and wowing fans with their hilarious and entertaining form of baseball.

But providing families with entertainment is not the only thing this team and organization stands for and does. They also celebrate and recognize those opening their homes to children who desperately need a safe and loving place to stay.

Jesse and Emily Cole own the Savannah Bananas and are the parents of three children, two of whom they adopted from foster care.

“The goal of foster care is to just walk alongside these kids and these families until they can reunify safely with biological family,” Emily said. “So, that was always our goal, to just help these kiddos and welcome them into our family but then send them home when the time is ready. And, for both of our girls; fortunately, unfortunately, the time never came for them to go home, and we were asked if we would like to pursue adoption. And so, after having both of our girls in our care for about three years, they were both adopted into our family forever.”

“There’s a huge need, and that’s why we started our nonprofit to help us,” Jason said.

“We believe we have a responsibility to just do good things in the world,” Emily added.

James 1:27 “The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Fathers is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.”