Category: adoption

  • Fostering Hope: A Devotional

    Fostering Hope: A 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…

  • 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…

  • Adoption Story: For Ever, For Always

    (A big thank you to Jen for today’s guest post! This is the condensed version of her family’s adoption journey of six children! Visit Jen’s blog for more detailed versions of their stories: For Ever, For Always, No Matter What.) Our story begins like so many others.  We met, fell in love, married.  Then we…

  • Becoming Foster Parents {Guest Post}

    When a sweet young couple we know decided to answer the call to become foster parents, we were delighted! Of course I asked to share their story, and they happily agreed. I hope you’ll visit Eden’s wonderful (and relatively new) blog, Standing on His Promise, to read more about their journey as foster parents! __________________________________…

  • Adoption Story by Eric {Guest Post}

    (Thank you, Eric, for giving us this glimpse into your heart and your life.) It started in a parking lot. One January day in 1997, I met the most beautiful woman and handsome two year old boy that God had destined to be my wife and child. Both Dawn and I knew within a few…