Our Journey of Adoption: Guest Post by Kelli

Thanks so much to Kelli from "Adventurez in Child Rearing" for sharing her family's story of adoption in today's guest post! Our Journey of Adoption Most people are surprised to find out that one of our boys is adopted. People who have known me for years will say things like "that one is the spitting image of you!" (We're from the south - … [Read more...]

Adoption Story: A Different View

(Earlier this week I received an email from a reader who started her message this way, "BOY! I love how the Lord brings things front and center. I found your blog via pinterest, via your cookbook.... saw your button about adoption and well, here I am." Michelle told me her story in that email, and of course I asked to share it here as a guest post … [Read more...]

Our Adoption: Two Years Later

This coming Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of Lindsey's adoption finalization. Two years since she became our daughter. It seem like so long ago -- and yet, it seems so recent. I've written about this journey all through the past two years, and even before our adoption. I've spoken in radio interviews, in front of thousands at my … [Read more...]

Foster Story: Guest Post by Laura

(Thank you to Laura for today's guest post! Visit her blog to follow along with her family's story: Living and Learning in Kentucky) Why We Became Foster Parents By Laura Witten I have always had a heart for children, and as my childhood dreams came true, there was one dream that remained elusive – to have more than one child of my own. … [Read more...]

What I Would’ve Done

school bus

As I've said, I felt clearly that the Lord wanted us to send Lindsey to public school this year, but I will admit that I am having a hard time with it. I have peace in the fact that I'm obeying God, but it's still hard. I send her away for the majority of the day, with no way to know what all she is being taught, what influences she is being … [Read more...]

Fostering Hope: A Devotional

Fostering Hope devotional

This week, I began a new daily devotion on YouVersion. It's written very specifically to help the reader experience God's heart for foster kids. So I started reading, in the midst of learning last week about an 11-year-old boy in foster care (who we've met) who has been tossed to and fro like a piece of nothing, adopted and then un-adopted. And … [Read more...]

Adoption Story: Tricia’s Journey

(Thank you to Tricia for today's guest post! This adoption story includes infant adoption, foster-adoption, and older-child adoption, too! And Tricia gets bonus points for being married to another Ken -- because I think they make the best husbands! ;)) Our Journey to the Gift of Adoption Ken and I married in January 1983. Six months after we … [Read more...]

The Tuckers Take Tennessee

Jamie

Come on over to The Tuckers Take Tennessee for my guest post today! An excerpt: ...The more we've learned, the more it truly amazes me that such a different culture can be just an hour's drive away. The world she grew up in was one of drugs and poverty, and very little education. No one in her biological family has ever finished high … [Read more...]

Generational Legacy of Adoption

I'd love for you to join me today at Raising Homemakers... An excerpt: I hope I never sound as though I've jumped on a soapbox about adoption. It's just that I've seen the desperate need. I've seen how my own daughter has already grown and flourished in the two years since she joined our family. I've seen how her life is already headed in such … [Read more...]

Mission Field at Home

kids with dad

I believe that parenting is a ministry. The Lord has given us the mighty task of teaching our children what love is, what family means, and who God is. We are to disciple and train them so they may grow into a relationship with Christ; this is our calling as Christian parents. Adoption is all of that, and more. There is another, deeper layer. It … [Read more...]