I know people mean well, but good intentions are not necessarily an indicator of right actions. We've been asked some questions over the years that either leave us smiling or scratching our heads. These questions could be considered misguided or uninformed, perhaps the thoughts of people who donât know any better, but when strangers ask [...]
Category: Adopt
How to Ruin a Saturday
I have a coworker who just took a short trip out of town with her husband. He is the outdoorsy type. He loves exploring and finding adventure and she is more of the stay at the cabin and read a book type. This, as you might imagine, is a source of conflict between them whenever [...]
Celebration Day
Today is a day of celebration for our family. Our two oldest kids are getting baptized. All of our family who live in town, grandparents aunts and uncles, and our small group from church are joining us in the celebration. The celebrating party includes Tori's birth mother. As we were driving to pick her up [...]
November is National Adoption Month
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Creating a Healthy Adoption Culture in Your Church
About a minute into the greatest sermon ever preached Jesus tells us that we are the light of the world. I know, big responsibility is placed on us in that moment. I think that a way for our churches to be the light of the world is by embracing the ministry of adoption and foster [...]
Why People Matter to God
The topic assigned to us for last weekend's Tapestry conference was "Why does my child's birth family really matter?" It seemed like an easy topic at first, after all we have been at this for a long time, we even have a very open adoption with our oldest daughter. We know about birth families. We should, [...]
My Childâs Birth Family
The  topic we're speaking on at this year's Tapestry Conference is Why does my childâs birth family really matter? It's a question that all foster and adoptive parents should consider. Let's be honest, it's a question that all parents should consider because it is central to who your child is and who they become. We cannot escape [...]
Fostering Hope
We were recently asked to write about our family for Chatter at Irving Bible Church. Chatter is a monthly publication of the church that is available in print and online. The article was published today so we thought we'd share it here. Thank you for taking the time to read it. Foster care was never [...]
I’ve Got Confidence
Confidence is an amazing thing because so much of life is confidence based. Even our economy has a confidence component to it because we have Consumer Confidence Index. You've all heard about the CCI. It measures the level of confidence we have in our economy. If confidence is high then we all spend more but [...]
I Have a Dream
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered on August 28, 1963 in Washington DC. You can read it by clicking here if you would like. It is such a well known and well respected speech that I won't get into the contents here other than [...]