Jenny Knowles and her husband, Lincoln, are adoptive parents to two sisters through foster care.
Photo courtesy of Mark N Photography.
Jenny Knowles and her husband, Lincoln, are adoptive parents to two sisters through foster care.
Photo courtesy of Mark N Photography.
If you want to get a realistic picture of what’s it like to be a foster parent, the best thing to do is speak with the folks who are living it. Kids enter foster care through no fault of their own–typically because they have been abused, neglected, or …
I am ashamed to admit that I once wondered if fostering children was worth the risk to my heart.
Is God prompting you to foster? To adopt? To support foster and adoptive families? Maybe you’ve prayed about it, but you still feel unequipped and fearful. Well, you’re not alone.
We now see that the pain of our infertility was an opportunity to hear and know and seek God more deeply, to experience His love for us, and to prepare us to pass that love on to our daughters.
As I struggled with infertility, God began nudging me toward a different goal – not bearing children, but caring for them.
From praying to volunteering to simply talking with others who’ve been there, there’s plenty you can do to prepare for the journey of becoming a foster or adoptive parent.