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
Daniel Kaggwa - senior pastor of Sign of the Dove Church in Uganda, Africa and Alliance for a Uganda without Orphans. In Uganda the church has been at the forefront of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) care but with critical gaps. AUWO is a growing movement of evangelical churches and child-care NGOs that is helping administer a paradigm shift to address these critical gaps in the existing care system among churches.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Bishop Aaron Blake - pastor of Greater Faith Community Church in Brownwood, Texas and foster parent.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Darlene Carpenter - Arizona Founder and President of Dresses for Orphans. Dresses for Orphans began in October 2008, and grew out of more than 40 years in ministry. Darlene has long had a burden to do things to benefit children. She is also an excellent seamstress and so Dresses for Orphans became a natural way to combine her two passions.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Rebecca Flach - Executive Director of Hope Full Life Center in Ravena, New York and Vice President of Justice for Orphans and foster parent.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Sunday Goodnight - Director of Church Relations at the Florida Baptist Children's Homes. Their mission is to provide Christ-centered services to children and families in need. Their vision is to bring hope to hurting children, to show that the love of Jesus changes lives and to impact the life of One More Child.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Eric Mills - Oklahoma pastor, adoptive dad, Orphan Sunday Coordinator and President of Faces With Names. Faces With Names exists to serve as a catalyst ministry to engage and equip churches to create the culture of orphan care through foster care, adoption & global orphan care.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Brittany DeVries - Panama City, Panama orphan advocate, film producer and foster mom. In 2012, Brittany produced short documentary Dear Panama, with Voice for the Voiceless and Grassroots News. Dear Panama, was instrumental in lobbying for and passing new legislation (Law 46) related to foster care and adoption in Panama. Residents of Panama since 2008, Brittany and her husband became the first foster family in the nationwide pilot program. In addition to their two foster children, they have two biological children.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Mary Slager - adoptive and foster care mom and Co-founder of Justice for Orphans. Mary ands her husband Stan have adopted 7 children through foster care and internationally from Ukraine. They have 10 grandchildren!