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
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.
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Jonathan Sanborn - State Director for CarePortal in AZ & CA discusses the impact CarePortal has had in both AZ & CA including how the number of children in foster care in AZ has dropped by 3,000 children since the implementation of CarePortal.
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Thursday Jun 21, 2018
Sue Baird - Regional Manager of CarePortal in Pima County, Arizona, joins us to discuss the impact the Church can have on foster care and how we can meet needs and disciple children and families in crisis.
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Mandy Chapman - Regional Manager for CarePortal in Northeast PA. Join us as Mandy shares how meeting Jesus changes everything. She also shares how God is working through CarePortal in PA.
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Scott Platter - Director of Ministry Support with the Global Orphan Project in Kansas City, which includes CarePortal. Listen in as we talk about the necessary work of the Church in child welfare and how CarePortal connects the two effectively.