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From Foster Care to Family: How a Small Church is Making a Big Impact
Adoption is the ultimate act of love. Guests Bishop Martin, Rebekah Weigel and Dr. Sharon Ford share the incredible story of how a small church ...
Showing Your Child Their True Worth
Peter Mutabazi shares his journey from street kid to foster dad. As a young kid on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, Peter’s life changed when one ...
Yahweh House
Focus on the Family has a core value of being Pro Life – from conception to death. One of the challenges that value brings is the support needed ...
Fostering a Church Culture for Foster Care
Our experience with foster care in our own family and encouraging and advocating for foster care and adoption in our church has taught us a few ways ...
What does it take to be a foster/adoptive parent?
Some years ago, at a retreat for adoptive mums, I asked the question: “What do you wish you would have known before you fostered or ...
Fostering Hope II
We only get one shot at being a child and ideally, we are nurtured by our biological mother and father. Unfortunately for many children today, this ...
Fostering Hope I
We only get one shot at being a child and ideally, we are nurtured by our biological mother and father. Unfortunately for many children today, this ...
Parenting In Blended Families
We sat on a daybed in the cramped housekeeping unit behind an old motel. "My husband gets out of prison in September, and we want to put our ...
What’s it Like to be a Foster Parent? Lessons From Parents and Children
If you want to get a realistic picture of what it’s like to be a foster parent, the best thing to do is speak with the folks who are living it. ...
Preparing for the Foster Care/Adoption Journey
If you feel ready to take action in caring for children in need of families and/or their caretakers, here are some next steps: Pray using God’s ...
Dear Prospective Foster Parent
Dear Prospective Adoptive Parent of a Child from Foster Care (Dear me of four years ago)… We know each other. Our hearts meet where God’s ...
Supporting foster families
On our first day as foster parents, we had ice cream for dinner. My husband and I thought it’d be an afternoon comfort after the "new ...