The ‘Lesser Moms’
She shuffled into the visitation room at the Department of Children and Family Services and slumped in a chair. With her eyes focused on the…
Foster Care and Adoption
Encouragement for Every Step of the Foster and Adoption Journey
Explore Christ‑centered encouragement and practical resources for foster care and adoption journeys — from considering fostering to navigating adoption challenges and celebrating forever families. Whether you’re called to foster, adopt, support foster families, or walk through open‑hearted love and faith in every season, these articles offer hope, spiritual encouragement, and biblical wisdom for foster and adoptive parents.
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Adoption: Sometimes Love Grows
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…
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Got Room?
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…
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How a Foster Mom Says ‘Goodbye’
We knew baby Riley would probably be reunited with his birth family, but that did not stop us from falling in love with him. We…
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Grandparents Raising Grandkids
Pete and Carol, happily married for 39 years, were ‘empty-nesters.’ Their 3 children were all in their 30’s, married, and now Pete and Carol were…
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Four Little Words
My kitchen was a chaotic deafening hurricane. Six people in my little kitchen eating breakfast, finishing lunch-packing, and the decibel level quickly rising to unbearable…
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Before Fostering/Adopting, I Wish I Understood…
My friends tried to explain some things to me- really, they did. But, like many other experiences in parenting, you just don’t understand until you’ve…
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The List…
This wasn’t the way it was supposed to go. It was supposed to go something like this: High school sweethearts get married. Work hard, buy a cute house….
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The Adoption Ideal
Idealize (Def: to attribute ideal characteristics to) Ideal (Def: existing as a mental image or in fancy or imagination only) Christmas, Birthdays, Vacations and other…
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Look Alikes
When God called us to adopt, we had one week to prepare our home for a new little baby. We didn’t know much about the…
