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Before our adoption, I thought I already knew how to successfully create a biracial family through adoption.  My heart was in the "right place."  I was perplexed at the vast amount of adoption training our agency required.  For example: How many close friends do you have that are of a minority race? How many role models within your child’s culture can you identify in your community?  Somewhere near the middle of the training, I began to understand: Not because of my faults, but through circumstance, I...

Earlier this month I found myself at a P.F. Chang’s in Indianapolis, enjoying a quiet meal to myself. At the end of the meal, my fortune cookie came, which I promptly opened in the hope that it would reveal some glorious morsel of insight that would make the mysteries of life disappear. Call me an optimist.   Instead, what I received was a challenge that can be taken one of many ways. Nestled inside the crisp cookie was the following:   Getting together with...

It is often hard to find words to describe the experience of adoption. The following resonated with me.  One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a long time. ~ Unknown For many, like me, adoption involves moving from the shore.  The vulnerability of a homestudy, the worry of finances, fears of the unknowns,...

I’d dare say that anyone who has adopted kids has a heart for adoption.  I for one can be running in twelve different directions, but if you want to talk to me about your interest in adoption, it will probably stop me in my tracks! It’s a wonderful, God-inspired, God-created thing. Last April, we brought home our 3 children from Ethiopia: Svanna Feruz (8), Gabriel Asmelash (5) and Summer Firewoyni (3). It’s a different thing, adopting older kids.  We’d adopted Jaden...

When we began our first adoption, we said we were only open to a healthy referral  – there was no option in our minds for special needs children.  This time, wIth our second  adoption, both Joe and I felt that God might be laying it on our hearts to look into special needs children.  We began by looking at children with only very minor needs – those that weren’t outwardly apparent.  But, as God often works on us, He began to show us scriptures such...

Tonight I have an urge to veer off in a different direction on the Katelyn’s Fund blog, and I hope there are no objections to my detour.  I tend to over-explain most of the moves I make in life, and this is no exception.  This post comes with some trepidation because I fear isolating parents and families who cannot relate.  Instead of living in a spirit of fear, though, I’m looking at this as...