Host Sandra Flach is a mom of 8 children, 5 through adoption—one kinship and 4 international. Her youngest 2 are teens diagnosed with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). With over 30 years of parenting experience and 20 plus years as an adoptive and kinship parent, she’s made mountains of mistakes and learned loads of lessons. She understands the difficult road of parenting children with trauma histories—and she is still in the trenches! The Adoption & Foster Care Journey is a podcast to encourage, educate, and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care, and kinship care. We aim to support adoptive and foster families by sharing encouraging real-life stories and equipping them with modern-day research and parenting techniques.
Episodes
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Caryn Christensen - PART 2 - Our guest is former foster youth, Caryn Christensen. Caryn returns for Part 2 of her story to share what she has learned through her healing journey from childhood trauma. She again candidly shares about the importance of knowing our identity and building trust.
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
John & Traci Adamson - Virginia adoptive parents, the Adamson's have 6 biological children and 3 children with special needs adopted from Ukraine. Recently they hosted 3 more children from Ukraine and are in process to adopt them too. Join us for their inspirational story.
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Janelle Shelton - Regional Manager for CarePortal in Ohio. Janelle shares several CarePortal stories of impact as 7 churches in her county have utilized CarePortal over the past 3 years.
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Pastor Dima Murkin - shares about the plight of the orphan in the Odessa region of Ukraine and how his ministry, Home For Orphan, is discipling and providing homes for teens who age-out of the orphanage.
Friday Jul 13, 2018
Friday Jul 13, 2018
Janiece Wieschhaus - LCSW, adoptive mom, former foster parent and current Orphan Sunday Coordinator Coach. Listen in as Janiece talks about her passion to help vulnerable children and families and to coach churches as they participate in Orphan Sunday.
Friday Jul 13, 2018
Friday Jul 13, 2018
Amy King - Founder & Director of For The Orphan Network in Utah. Amy is also an Orphan Sunday Coordinator. Join us as Amy shares how, as a single, young adult she was gloriously ruined for the orphan in 2002 which led to her calling to establish her Salt Lake City based orphan ministry.
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Brandalyn Musial - Canadian orphan-adoption-foster care advocate, joins us to discuss Orphan Sunday & Stand Sunday and how Church has a part to play in transforming the lives of vulnerable children.