A Baptism Story
Children end up in foster care for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes a mistake that the parents made. And in some of those cases, the consequence of the mistake is…
Read More ›Vertical Life Church: How a Family Fostering Siblings Lead to a Foster Care Ministry
Vertical Life Church in Dallas, Georgia, will be launching a partnership with FaithBridge and their church’s foster care ministry on Sunday, April 17, 2016. The journey to start this ministry at this…
Read More ›Jump. Bounce. Play. Love. Serve.
FaithBridge loves celebrating our church partners and all the ways that they are honoring and loving foster families. Mt. Bethel Church (Mt. Bethel) was the first church with which we partnered to change…
Read More ›Meet Our Community of Care®: We are not in this alone
As we approach our one-year anniversary of becoming foster parents, I am most grateful for the Community of Care® that surrounds our family. Despite the questions about the outcome with things such…
Read More ›The Night My Foster Son Finally Woke Me Up
Photo credit: The Full Moon of Glen Ellyn via photopin (license) I was somewhere in between that deep sleep of the deprived and the alert sleep of the maternal. I lay there…
Read More ›His Hands Church: Connecting the Dots
We like things that are logical. Step one. Step two. And then step three. God designed much of life to work like this. Systems. Processes. Order. On the flip side, God seems…
Read More ›One Mom’s Contagious Enthusiasm for Foster Care: “God has put a fire in my heart!”
“God is the great redeemer,” said FaithBridge foster mom Amanda. “He’s taken ugly ugliness and made it beautiful.” Her energy and passion for foster care ministry explodes from each word energetically flowing…
Read More ›Hello, My Name is Mommy
There are certain words that seem to convey more emotion than others while carrying connotations almost impossible to express. As we near our first anniversary as foster parents, I would add “Mommy”…
Read More ›Signing Up for Heartbreak
by Jeremy Smith, FaithBridge Foster Dad About four years ago, my wife and I decided to pursue God’s heart for orphans through foster care. It wasn’t a decision we entered into lightly.…
Read More ›How Saying Goodbye Welcomes God’s Grace
Wisdom tells us to begin with the end in mind. Beginning our fostering journey was no different, especially with a house full of elementary-aged biological children. As a family that planned to…
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