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I have just finished a book called “Orphan Train A Novel” by Christina Baker Kline.  I picked this book up before heading out of town with some girl friends and the book immediately sucked me in.  I knew when  I read the description it would be one that I would find fascinating.  It is about a girl who, after becoming orphaned in New York in 1929, is forced to board the Orphan Train taking her to Minnesota where she would...

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We are singing praises of gratitude and celebration this week as a long-waited for court hearing happened last week for our boys’ adoption–while we’re still several months away from being able to bring them home from Congo, we are one major step closer. And as the time grows closer for our family to grow by two, I find myself wrestling with the waiting.   Psalm 37:3 tells us to “…Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness” and the same word “dwell” is...

A few years ago my then 3-yr-old daughter, Etta, had eye surgery.  It was same day surgery so we went in really early and were in recovery midmorning.  We were told that usually kids come out of anesthesia rather disoriented.  That was an understatement!  She was like a wild animal on my lap.  → ...

After learning about this great little book from Sheila De Jong (President of Katelyn’s Fund) I ordered it and read it in just one sitting.  The little book called, Becoming Home: Adoption, Foster care, and mentoring- Living out God’s heart for Orphans By Jedd Medefind is a necessary read. I believe the messages of this book is necessary for Christians everywhere because it brings to light the need for orphan care. “Every Christian community is called to embody pure religion that includes...

Many of our Katelyn’s Fund Family have blogs or websites about their adoption journeys.   We would love for you to add our Katelyn’s Fund Website Button to your blog or website to help other adoption families find our site! → ...

Our family is in the “waiting” part of our adoption process – waiting to be matched with our daughter in China.  So, while we wait, I’ve been reading up on Chinese culture.  Admittedly, I’m a jewelry girl – so when “pearls” popped up during my research – my curiosity spiked!  I browsed through countless sights with fun facts about pearls and their history; but it was when I began reading how a pearl is intricately formed that I became captivated....

I have been disillusioned.  Of course I’m still an adoption and orphan advocate.  Our family was shaped by the hand of God through adoption and I am grateful.  Plus, the Bible is clear,   James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.     But all the sin, all the corruption, it just makes me sick.  ...