We like to joke that eighteen years ago our fostering and adopting journey began with one carry out and one delivery daughter. Prayer and Patience Our adoption story started with…
We like to joke that eighteen years ago our fostering and adopting journey began with one carry out and one delivery daughter. Prayer and Patience Our adoption story started with…
by Christie Erwin November is National Adoption Month and the second Sunday in November is Orphan Sunday. On one hand, I love this month because it is a time to…
Last night my two-year-old, Alyssa, drew a picture of a house, and it made me think about how different this house—our house—would be without this girl. Without her giggles, without…
I’ve been a mom for 23 years, and for the first five of those years I had moments when I struggled to control my anger. While I was growing up,…
Get to know the heart of Alex and Stephen Kendrick just a bit more… and hear the incredible story of Stephen and Jill’s adoption of their beautiful Mia.
In my 23 years as a mom there have been many homecomings as I brought my six children home for the first times. When Cory was born, I was a…
Do you have room for one more child? While we lived in a little three-bedroom house, we adopted three kids to add to the three I had already birthed. We…
One of our six children is adopted. We brought her home from the hospital at three days old to several weeks of celebrations as we introduced our unexpected but long prayed-for addition…
Eleven years ago, I was reading a “Woman’s World” magazine, and one article changed my thoughts on how many children is “enough.” At the time, I thought three was plenty….
This week, Mary Beth Chapman talks about her feelings about adoption and her organization, Show Hope. You can find out more about Mary Beth’s organization, Show Hope, here. See Part…