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Creating a culture of adoption in the church
“We need the church.”
“In order for the church to be effective to this ministry and this calling… They’re going to have to be a healing culture. They’re going to have to be a forgiving culture. They’re going to have to a faith that is renewed daily.”
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Texas foster care statistics for 2009
In 2009, there were 27,422 children in foster care in the state of Texas.
Of those numbers, there were 5,442 children in Region 3 (North Texas)
In 2009, there were 6,510,210 children between the ages of birth to 18 in the state of Texas and 1,795,971 in the North Texas region.
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Thanks.
I just want to publicly say thanks to all the folks who have helped us in one way or another over the past week or so.
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How quickly life can change
In case you’ve missed the news — we have two foster boys in our home now.
They’re such a joy.
For their protection we won’t be publishing any photos and such publicly online and for now, we’ll simply refer to them online as N (the oldest) and M (the youngest).
And oh how quickly life can change….
What [...]
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Orphans and the tragedy in Haiti
Earlier this week I shared a Tweet from a friend in Austin:
PRAYER: RT : friend who was adopting from Haiti-met child-going this week 2 get her-found out child was killed
It was a hard Tweet to read (and share).
Essentially, this friend of a friend of a friend were in the process of adopting a [...]
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Dealing with the pain of infertility
I’ve really been impressed and appreciative of all the things Jason Kovacs does. It’s been great getting to know him and his ministry over the last several months via his blogs and Twitter ().
Last week, Jason shared a great post on what he learned from the story of Hannah (1 Samuel 1) and her husband [...]
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Your intrinsic, immutable value
As part of our foster care certification process, we’ve been asked to read three books and write book reports on them. I know! Book reports?!
It’s not really that bad. They basically want to find out what we’ve learned from said books. As simple as it may be, or as complex as it may be.
In [...]
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Texas foster care statistics
As of 2008, there were 31,058 children in foster care in the state of Texas.
(Texas Department of Family and Protective Services – DFPS)
Of those numbers, there are approximately 6,000 children in Region 3 (North Texas)
In FY 2007, the average number of children removed per month was 1,327. For fiscal year 2008, the average was 1,191 [...]
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How would you respond?
Laurie and I are getting excited as our expectancy grows, just counting down the days till we hope to have our foster-parent certification, followed by more waiting till we get the call that we have a foster child waiting for us.
Over the Thanksgiving break we did a little shopping and purchased a brand new crib/toddler [...]
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Monday briefs
Despite the rain (that just keeps coming back), we were blessed with another great time this weekend.
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