Her Name
Fostering can reveal God’s love–the love of THE perfect Father–in ways that no other role has the privy of experiencing. A FaithBridge foster dad shares about how a nameless, 4-day-old baby girl…
Read More ›Meet Rachel*
Rachel and her sibling came into care because of neglect, inadequate housing and drug abuse. Her birth parents, sadly, do not seem to be making much progress on the plan that’s been…
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 ›How Healing Changed Bobby’s Story
Most people don’t experience in an entire lifetime the trauma that Bobby* encountered before he was out of diapers. He and his infant brother were removed from a horrific situation, leaving these…
Read More ›Meet Peter*
Peter’s story is one filled with tragedy, separation and crime…and none of it being his own doing. His father passed away while he was in foster care. He lives in a different…
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.…
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