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 Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Christina De Santis – Director of Communications & Strategy at Co-Mission and World Without Orphans. World Without Orphans (WWO) is a global Christian movement that promotes family-based care and assists national grassroots initiatives. CoMission helped to launch and contributes to the leadership of WWO, which joins the efforts of a wide array of organizations, churches, and individuals who are working together through informal partnership.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Peggy King – Volunteer Director of Program Excellence for Orphanetwork of Nicaragua. Through innovation and creativity, they are breaking the cycle of poverty for orphaned, abandoned, abused and vulnerable children in Nicaragua.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Elizabeth Styffe – adoptive mom and Director of the Orphan Care Initiative at Saddleback Church, CA
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Jamie C -New Jersey foster & adoptive mom and blogger at Foster The Family Blog; One mom's light-hearted musings and heavier broodings on foster care, gospel-centered parenting, and mission-focused family.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Raya Shelashska – Director of the Institute of Child Developmental Trauma in Kiev, Ukraine and the Program Director for Eastern Europe for A Family For Every Orphan. A Family for Every Orphan helps orphans find loving Christian families in their home countries.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Tim Daniell – Orphan’s Promise Asia/Pacific region and Project leader of Keeping Families Together – Thailand. Orphan's Promise is currently supporting two KFT (Keeping Families Together) programs in Thailand. This is making it possible for 19 families (82 beneficiaries, 46 of whom are orphans or other highly vulnerable children) to be strengthened so they can remain together as a family, and learn about the love of Jesus.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
MaryAnn Bell – Co-founder & Executive Director of Romanian Christian Enterprises, Romania. They believe that the poor & oppressed,
the widow & the orphan, deserve to be treated with dignity and restored the right to live in families and community!
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
John Moritz and Rev. David Waako – Hearts of the Father Outreach, Uganda. Hearts of the Father Outreach helps orphans and abandoned children. The founding vision incorporates 10 to 20 orphans gathered in a loving home with a husband–wife couple as the houseparents. The goal is to raise these children in a family type setting. There, they receive love, support and mentoring from a father and mother who have a heart for God and a heart for children.