On Their Foster Care and Adoption Journeys
On Their Foster Care and Adoption Journeys
This entire website exists to encourage and support you - no matter where you are in your journey towards caring for the most vulnerable and marginalized around you. Whether you are an individual, a couple, a family, a church or organizational leader you’ll find books, blogs, videos and stories I hope will help you take your next best steps forward.
“For Foster Dads” is a four-module online series uniquely designed to encourage and inspire dads who are currently fostering, considering fostering or have had their family impacted forever by adoption because of fostering.
The Church has a unique capacity and calling to care for vulnerable children and families - and support those who do. Here you’ll find resources designed to encourage families, equip churches and empower organizations working in this space.
It is an honor to speak at many types of events including church services, conferences, retreats, organizational trainings, leadership workshops, fundraising banquets and more.
Is your church launching or leading a ministry? Is your organization looking for strategies to engage the Church more effectively, refine it’s messaging or develop more resources? I’d love to help.
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I grew up in the Dallas area most of my life and attended Texas A&M where I met my wife, Emily. We now have four daughters plus a “bonus” daughter and her sweet kids! We became foster parents in 2012. Everything’s changed since then.
Human beings were created by God to cultivate - to actively steward, nurture, and develop the life and environments entrusted to them. From the very beginning of Scripture, God establishes cultivation as a central part of humanity’s calling. However, in Genesis 3 God’s created order to of cultivation becomes corrupted by the curse of sin. In part, the partaking of the fruit of the tree they must not eat from, humanity sought to find substance and fulfillment and flourishing outside of God’s created order.