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 ›5 Reasons Our Family Fosters
“I would never foster if it wasn’t headed toward adoption. What’s the point?” This question from a friend struck me with a surprising jolt. My already tender heart has been feeling a…
Read More ›These Kids are Going to be Alright
Thanksgiving morning, I was busy cooking while our five children played in an adjacent room. Every few minutes, I paused to peek in, and on one particular glance I lingered at the…
Read More ›I could tell you about foster care…
By a FaithBridge foster mom whose identity will remain anonymous for the privacy of her foster children. Talking about foster care is challenging for me, mostly because I could talk all…
Read More ›Camp Veazey: Making it Possible for Others to Foster
One of the kids has one of those stuffed animals that lights up. At bedtime, the person who’s holding it gets to start the night’s story, ushering them all to an imaginary…
Read More ›Changing Plans
If there’s one thing predictable about foster care it’s that it is completely unpredictable. The Stewarts* received a placement, and as time moved on, it looked like the children were going to…
Read More ›This is What Happens in Foster Care
Photo credit: Dairy in the sky via photopin (license) It took me awhile before I could walk past the dairy section of the grocery store without having flashbacks. In my memory, the song always came on…
Read More ›Jim + Carol
“It’s so much fun!” Jim said for the umpteenth time in the conversation. “The pay is tremendous – you get to laugh, you get your heart filled, you get to see families…
Read More ›The Long Road
The road from Dahab to Mount Sinai in Egypt in 2007. Photo by Heather. The miracles that God did through Moses described in detail in Exodus are simply marvelous. Besides the resurrection,…
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