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
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.
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.