Recently, I talked with a couple in church that are waiting to adopt. They finished their home study and are now a waiting family. They didn’t ask me for any advice but I gave it to them anyway. I told them this. When we were done with all the busy work of adoption and began to wait, I would pray and pray and pray for our child that was coming, for the birth family, for the process, for our life...
The phrase “orphan crisis” usually brings to mind the faces of children, but every orphaned child bears the story of a vulnerable mother. If we are serious about impacting the orphan crisis, then we must acknowledge the inextricable link of orphans and vulnerable women. Not all orphanages, or orphan care organizations, believe in holistic orphan care, which grants dignity and real transformative opportunity not only to orphaned children, but to vulnerable women as well. In Congo (where my children...
Everyone is welcome to join us in Sioux Center next week Thursday for our Foster Care Prayer Vigil. May is National Foster Care Month and we are excited to gather together and pray for the workers, families, and the children impacted by foster care! → ...
This job of parenting through adoption can be hard, it certainly is different than parenting biological children. It isn’t bad or wrong, it is just different. God has been speaking to my husband and myself over the past couple of months about the magnitude of the job we signed up for. We continue to walk along side our 8 year old as she is full-on processing grief and loss right now. It is hard, it is painful to be a...
My daughter is a gifted athlete. She has been given many natural physical abilities from God. From the time she was 3 months old, many people confirmed her unusual strength and her persistent spirit. So, the expectation that she would be a great athlete, if she chose to, has always been there. But, she is also introverted and shy in new environments with lots of people. This made that first gymnastic class extremely tough for me to sit...
As I woke up today, I asked God to give me some inspiration for this post. By mid-morning, I wasn’t feeling very inspired. I was already wound pretty tight, eye twitching, claws bared, not very enjoyable to be around. And that’s actually when it hit me– that moment of divine revelation. But honestly, it really felt more like the sting of conviction. It came like a palm to the forehead; reminiscent of a V8 commercial….I should’ve had this light-bulb moment...
Have you heard the country song, “I Just Want to be Mad for Awhile” by Teri Clark? One of my kiddos can throw the most spectacular tantrums, especially when she was a three year old. These tantrums could come out of no where. Sometimes they began when I had to say no to something she wanted. But sometimes, they appeared out of nowhere.
Adopting the Older Child Part 2 of Adopting the Older Child features Darren and Cheryl Macdonald, who share their family’s experience of adopting an 11 year girl from Russia. → ...
Last night I worked at the after-prom party for my oldest daughter. She is a junior and that is the job for the parents of the juniors at her school. We were actually the chair persons for the games committee for after-prom party….but that is a different story. As I was saying, I was hard at work, from midnight to 3:30am at the afterprom party, supervising the games. I walked around at midnight to start our part of the prom...
Join us for the Empowered to Connect Conference Live Simulcast Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 8:30am – 5:00pm (both days) First Reformed Church in Sioux Center, Iowa Register to attend by March 30: http://katelynsfund.org/community/events/empowertoconnect → ...
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