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
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Adrien Lewis - Exectutive Director of the foster care Care Portal - a platform of the Global Orphan Project. The CarePortal is like Uber for the child welfare system - connecting foster children with churches using technology. So far the CarePortal is in 13 states nationwide and has helped 18,000 kids. It's not in NY (yet)! Tune in to learn more . . .
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Madeleine Welcher - author, advocate, blogger, adoptee & a 2017 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute “Angel in Adoption” awardee. Madeleine will share her own adoption story as she brings encouragement to other adoptees and adoptive parents as well.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Vanita Thomas - PART 2 International Adoption - Vanita, Sandeep & Ruth share openly about the years of dark days in the trenches after Sandeep & Ruth were adopted from India. The family also shares the hope and healing they have found in their Heavenly Father who has chosen them for a purpose.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Vanita Thomas - PART 1 International Adoption - Vanita's 2 adult children were both adopted from India. This precious family transparently shares about the struggles of trauma history and the cultural challenges of Indian adoption.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Dawn Cosgrove - New York adoptive mom of a daughter with special needs from India. Dawn shares her family's story of adopting their daughter, Parimala from India. The call to adopt and the 5 year wait was a walk of faith filled with miracles.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Kristin Taylor - Kentucky domestic adoptive mom & author of “Peace in the Process - How Adoption Built my Faith & my Family”. Kristin and her husband are parents to 3 children adopted domestically and has authored the book Peace in the Process about how adoption built her faith and her family.
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Saturday Jan 27, 2018
Pastor Mike Worley - Foster & Adoption Dad & Presidnet of Beautiful Redemption. Pastor Mike and his wife, Leesa, were encouraging their congregation towards foster care and adoption when then they found themselves called to become foster parents.
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Phil Darke - president of Providence World Ministries, Host of podcast, "Think Orphan" and co-author of the book, "Pursuit of Orphan Excellence". The Think Orphan podcast is hosted by Kelly Stewart, Social Worker and adoptive mom, and Philip Darke, President of Providence World and co-author of In Pursuit of Orphan Excellence. Each week, they discuss the difficult issues and hot topics involved in the global orphan crisis with leading voices from around the world. Tune in as Phil shares why the Church is the solution to the orphan crisis and how we must pursue excellence in our efforts on behalf of vulnerable children.
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Colleen Thompson - Ohio adoptive mom & Executive Director of Host Ukraine. Colleen will share about how hosting an orphan in 2005 led her family to adopt 6 children from Ukraine. Now she works to find host families - and hopefully forever families - for Ukrainian orphans.
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Jacob Sturges - an adult adoptee and blogger at “Advocating For the Orphan”. Jacob was adopted from Korea as a baby and knows the blessing of growing up in a loving family. Now he advocates for orphans and foster children so they will know the love of family too.