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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, 11th Sep 2021
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 ...
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Saturday, 4th Sep 2021
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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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