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
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Pastor Rick & Heather Hanna - We're so excited to have the Hanna's of Albany, NY as returning guests. The Hanna's are parents of 3 grown bio kids, 3 children adopted from Korea, and 1 precious little treasure adopted domestically. Join us to hear how they were inspired to adopt a medically fragile child through a crisis pregnancy resource center.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Victoria Charbonneau - cofounder of J127 Ranch in Kazakhstan. J127 Ranch is a nonprofit that works with orphans, single moms and children with special needs. Join us as she shares how a short term missions trip led to her living and serving full time in Kazakhstan.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Rena Vawter - An open-domestic-infant-transracial-adoptive mom, Rena and her husband, Chad, are parents to 5 children through adoption. Listen as she shares about the unique challenges her family faces and the lessons she had learned along the way.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Jasmine Basham - she came into foster care as an infant and was adopted by her foster parents at age 3. She has met some of her biological family and transparently shares the challenges and joys of growing up adopted.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Gloria Cooper - founder & Executive Director of Heart 2 Heart - Hand in Hand International, a nonprofit bringing hearts and hands together to provide hope, stability, and opportunity to empower African communities.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Misty Seale - Don't miss our conversation with orphan advocate & soon to be adoptive mom. Listen in and hear how Misty's "yes" to God has led her family to adopt from Haiti and establish an orphan care ministry in her Oklahoma church.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Anu Silas - founder & Executive Director of Vanita Shray. Vanita Shray is a nonprofit caring for orphans, the destitute, and widows in India. Tune in as Anu shares her incredible story of being both an orphan and a widow and how God called her to care for the least of these in her community.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Rachel Garlinghouse - author, blogger & adoptive mom. Rachel is not just an adoptive mom - she's an infant-open-domestic-transracial adoptive mom. Listen in as she shares candidly about transracial and open adoption.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Charlie Young - foster & adoptive mom. Charlie and her family moved to New York from Montana and are part of Life Church Albany. The Young's and Life Church share God's heart for the orphan and are passionate about serving vulnerable children and families.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Emily Wood - North Carolina foster & adoptive mom. Emily and her husband have 3 children - 1 by adoption and 2 by birth. She's also a blogger of Splashes of Joy at emilymwood.com. Tune in as Emily discusses growing up in church ministry but never hearing about foster care or adoption as God's mission for the Church.