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Foster care resources that explore the questions people are asking and the experiences that shape the answers.
When many people think about foster care, they picture a young child. They imagine...
We are living in a culture filled with crisis. But imagine if the world were knocking on the doors of the church because...
Respite foster care is short-term care provided to a child in foster care when the foster parent needs temporary support...
For children and teens in foster care, healing often happens while life is still changing around them. Many are trying to process trauma, grief, and loss while...
Each May, communities across the country observe National Foster Care Month—a time set aside to honor children and youth in foster care...
Foster care is often surrounded by misconceptions that keep everyday people from stepping into a calling that...
If you’ve ever felt God stirring your heart toward caring for children in need, you’ve probably asked this question...
Foster care places parents in the sacred role of stewarding something precious. While the journey may...
Foster care is, at its core, a ministry of presence: opening your home so a child can experience...
Every child deserves a home full of hope, safety, and care. Yet for thousands of children across Georgia...
Foster care is more than a program—for most, it’s a calling. It’s stepping into the gap for children who...
On a regular Monday morning, I received an email from Margaret, one of our missionaries serving in the Middle East...
I first met with Janet on a balmy September day in south Louisiana. My husband and I had...
Have you ever ridden a bike or an electric scooter from one sidewalk to the next? Maybe you’ve...
Before offering my own definition for trauma, I’d like to provide some working definitions from...
Psychology Today defines resilience as “the ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life...
As a black child growing up in the south, I became very accustomed to the importance of...
Many consider serving in the field of foster care and child welfare a calling — they say...
Christmas is a beautiful time of year. It is the season where we set aside time...
Stand Sunday started back in 2002 with a pastor at a church in Texas. As the recollection...
This profound statement resonated with me for days and even weeks after the encounter...
When children are placed in loving, stable Christian homes, the whole direction of their lives...
When we hear the word adoption, joy, excitement and love usually spring into our hearts and minds...
Have you ever ridden a bike or an electric scooter from one sidewalk to the next? Maybe you've...
As the months went by, we started to get our feet under us, and we began to find some new daily rhythms...
Over the last three weeks, our world has been turned upside down. What was unthinkable has happened...
It is week 2, day 3 of social distancing at the Sturgess household. We are finally settling into our new normal...
The worldwide outbreak of coronavirus has led to some intentional changes for all of us...
What is the difference between empathy and sympathy? By definition, empathy requires one to place....
In order to truly know where we are going, we must learn to embrace our past. When we know better...
The root of the word trauma is derived from Greek and means “rupture or tear.” When understood from the standpoint...
Over 15 years ago, my wife and I found one question lingering in our minds: Why foster....
On a regular Monday morning, I received a call from Margaret, one of our missionaries serving in the Middle East...
What does it look like to live out true discipleship when foster care call us beyond...
In part two, Peter Mutabazzi dives deeper into countercultural parenting, exploring how trauma...
