A Love Letter to Our Biological Mother
Photo credit: Jeremy Brooks via photopin cc Read more blogs like this by Katie at Operation: Leap of Faith, where this letter was originally posted. Dear B, It’s Mother’s Day. And this…
Read More ›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 ›Lessons Learned from Starting a Foster Care Ministry
It started as a feeling that just wouldn't go away. A nagging, heart-worry burden. Something that resided in the back of our heads and hearts – a small, smoldering burn – and…
Read More ›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 ›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 ›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…
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