OLDHAM COUNTY, Ky.-- With 9,875 children in foster care in Kentucky, the state is in the process of making some changes to child welfare. One of those changes that took effect this April, was the undoing of the cap that limited how many children could be fostered together in the same home. That's made a difference to families like the Davises. Greg and Amber Davis will soon have their sixth child, while also training other prospective foster and adoptive parents through the state's partnership with the Christian-based group, the Orphan Care Alliance (OCA). 

The Davises have two biological children, three adopted children, and one soon-to-be adopted baby. Over the last nine years, 45 kids have been in their care. "They're family. They're just part of who we are and what we do," Amber Davis says. 

Greg Davis says that they feel, as Christians, it is their responsibility to care for vulnerable children. That's why he trains new families on the subject, through the OCA and the state. He uses the state's curriculum, he says, but also goes by the Bible. 

"We firmly believe that this is something that God's told us to do. We don't get the luxury of saying well this may not be for me...it kind of is for all of us. It's right there- orphans and widows. It's in the red words. Very clear that we're called to take care of this. So everybody isn't supposed to be a foster parent but we're all supposed to do something," he says. 

The state has partnered with OCA, as a way to relive case-loaded social workers from the task. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services says a single social worker in Kentucky averages about 30 cases. 

OCA Executive Director Darren Washausen says that over three months, 81 families have either been through training or have signed up to go through training with them.

Amber Davis says it's not enough, and hopes for more. She encourages other women to become temporary moms or adoptive moms. She says the hardest part for her, is letting go of the kids when they leave her home for reunification with their biological parents. 

"I'm willing to endure the hurt. I can handle the hurt it is for them to come and then leave, for them to not have to experience the hurt of not having a place to come," she says.